……Bishoo snares 4 for 5, Baldeo 3 for 21 and 40*
GUYANA and West Indies leg-spinner, Devendra Bishoo, produced a destructive spell of bowling to end with 4 for 5, which together with Balchand Baldeo’s 3 for 21 and unbeaten 40, guided Albion Cricket Club to a nine wicket victory over Police last Saturday.The two sides were meeting in the quarter-finals of the Berbice Cricket Board/NAMILCO/Bakewell first division T20 competition and with the win, Albion joined Rose Hall Town Gizmos and Gadgets in the semi-finals.
Also making it to the semi-finals were recently crowned BCB/Universal DVD T20 champions Universal Solutions Bermine and West Berbice, who both defeated Upper Corentyne and Universal DVD Young Warriors in their respective matches on the same day.
Asked to bat first, Police found the bowling of Bishoo, who played for the Barbados Tridents in the inaugural Limacol Caribbean Premier League, and Baldeo too much to handle and were skittled out for 56 in 16.2 overs.
Only Philbert Wilburg who made 17 offered some resistance to the duo following which Baldeo came back with the bat to steer Albion to 57 for 1 from 13.4 overs.
In the West Berbice versus Young Warriors encounter, the former was restricted to 123 for 7, with Arthley Bailey 35, Quacy McPherson 24 and Andrew Dutchin 23 not out leading their batting.
Linden Austin took 3 for 28 and Kevin Ramdeen 2 for 16 for Young Warriors, who in their turn at the crease faced a raging Raun Johnson, whose 4 for 19 limited them to 117 for 9, handing West Berbice the win by 4 runs.
Johnson took the first four wickets to fall, leaving Young Warriors on 25 for 4 in the fifth over, before Ishwar Singh and Linden Austin added 57 for the 5th wicket in 9 overs.
After Singh was bowled by off-spinner Steffon Adams for 29 at 82 for 5, Adams and off-spinner Krishna at Ramoo choked the scoring rate as wickets kept falling, limiting Young Warriors to their eventual total, with Ramoo and Keon Joseph taking two wickets each for 10 and 21 runs respectively, while Adams ended with 1 for 14.
Shemroy Barrington led the way for Universal Solutions Bermine to see them post 150 for 7 against GUYTRAC Upper Corentyne, receiving support from Damion Vantull (27) and Romario DeJonge who made an unbeaten 24.
In reply, GUYTRAC Upper Corentyne were given a solid start by Parmeshwar Chatterpaul (22), and Faraz Mohamed (16), who added 40 for the first wicket from six overs, before Kevin Pellew (3 for 16), Devon Clements (3 for 28) and Eugene LaFleur (2 for 14) bowled them out for 98 in 18.5 overs.