… Bishoo named man-of-the-match
TWO RAIN interruptions before the start of play and 10 minutes after lunch yesterday, spoilt what would have been an exciting final day in the seventh round West Indies Cricket Board Regional four-day match at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence, between hosts Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago.Final scores Trinidad and Tobago 294 and 212, Guyana 282 and 80 for 3.
Asked to score 225 for victory, Guyana who lost Trevon Griffith lbw to Amit Jaggernauth for 13 the previous afternoon, began the day on 17 for 1, with Tagenarine Chanderpaul on 3 and T&T’s destroyer with the ball Devendra Bishoo yet to score.
This was after play commenced 70 minutes late in the morning session, due to some early morning rain and a heavy drizzle which forced all the players off the field during their warm-up sessions.
When umpire Nigel Duguid and his Barbadian counterpart Gregory Brathwaite called play, Bishoo steered a delivery from Marlon Richards to third man for four, before he saw the demise of Chanderpaul who was lbw to Richards for 7, at 33 for 2.
Enter the 17-year-old Shimron Hetmyer who failed to score in the first innings, in overcast conditions, and this time he did not disappoint, pulling a short delivery from Richards to squareleg authoritatively for four, to score his first runs at this level.
However, he got a rush of blood and picked out Ryad Emrit at mid-off, when he looked to hit Richards over that area, a replica of his first-innings dismissal, leaving Guyana on 43 for 3, which later became 64 for 3 at lunch, with Bishoo on 21 and Leon Johnson 18.
After lunch, Guyana progressed to 70 for 3 with both batsmen adding three runs each to their respective totals, before the heavens opened and halted the proceedings for three hours and 17 minutes.
Play resumed at 16:52hrs and Johnson hit two fours off Imran Khan to push his personal score to 30, before the umpires and players called it a day at 17:00hrs, with Bishoo on 25 and Guyana 80 for 3 off 40 overs. Bishoo was named man-of-the-match.

SCORECARD
T&T first innings 294
Guyana 1st innings 282
T&T 2nd innings 212
Guyana 2nd innings (o/n 17-1)
T. Griffith lbw b Jaggernauth 13
T. Chanderpaul lbw b Richards 7
D. Bishoo not out 25
S. Hetmyer c Emrit b Richards 4
L. Johnson not out 30
Extras: (lb-1) 1
Total: (for 3 wkts, off 40 overs) 80
Fall of wickets: 1-17, 2-33, 3-43.
Bowling: Gabriel 6-1-12-0, Emrit 5-3-8-0 Jaggernauth 14-4-18-1, Mohammed 6-2-9-0, Richards 7-1-21-2, Khan 2-1-11-0.
By Calvin Roberts