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GUYANA CHRONICLE Saturday September 27, 2014
Champions League T20…
Carter ton not enough as Tridents suffer Super Over heartbreak
MOHALI, India (CMC) – Jonathan Carter’s brilliant, unbeaten hundred was in vain as critical errors in the field proved Barbados Tridents undoing, as they went down to Cape Cobras in a nerveracking Super Over in the Champions League Twenty20 here yesterday. The left-handed Carter romped his way to a T20 career-best 111 not out, an innings that powered Tridents to a competitive 174 for eight off their 20 overs and helped them overcome a terrible start and middle order collapse at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium. He faced 68 balls and lashed ten fours and five sixes, adding an all-important 75 for the third wicket with opener Dilshan Munaweera whose 42 came from 21 balls, to lift Tridents from the doldrums of seven for two in the third over. With Jeevan Mendis the only other batsman to reach double figures with ten, Carter carried the Tridents innings admirably as wickets tumbled around him. He put on 27 for the fourth wicket with James Franklin (3) and added another 42 for the
fifth wicket with Mendis. His century surpassed his previous best of 61. In reply, opener Hashim Amla was amazingly gifted three lives en route to a top score of 59, as Tridents fluffed their lines at key points of the game. He added 56 for the first wicket with Richard Levi who scored 39 and another 43 for the second wicket with Omphile Ramela who got 14 - partnerships that propelled Cobras to 99 for one in the 11th over. Seemingly running away with the game, Cobras were pegged back by a brilliant spell from leg-spinner Mendis who finished with four for 27. Three quick wickets for 17 runs in the space of 14 balls led to a slump and left the South African outfit requiring 13 from the last over. Captain and seamer Rayad Emrit restricted Cobras to 12 runs but Tridents squandered a golden opportunity to win the game of the last ball. With three runs needed for victory, Sybrand Engelbrecht whipped Emrit to deep square leg where Raymon Reifer collected and sent a return
just wide of the stumps. With Engelbrecht well short of his ground, wicketkeeper Shane Dowrich fumbled the take, allowing the batsman to get home and tie the game. In the Super Over, Cobras tallied 11 runs as seamer Ravi
Jonathan Carter celebrates his maiden Twenty20 hundred against Cape Cobras yesterday. (Photo courtesy CLT20 Media) Rampaul proved accurate and Tridents then lost Munaweera in scoring eight from the first five balls. Requiring four from the final delivery, Tridents gathered only two as Carter was unable
Eights clubs in Pomeroon receive balls to develop their cricket
... T20 cricket competition launched THE POMEROON Sports Committee donated balls to eight cricket clubs in the Upper and Lower Pomeroon last Monday at Xenon Hotel Boardroom in Charity, prior to the launching of the Norbert Alphonso and Hassan Rahim Memorial T20 Cricket Competition. According to a press release, the balls were purchased for the clubs using the $50 000 grant the Pomeroon Area Committee received from the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) in July this year. The GCB started a countrywide outreach programme, donating money and necessary materials to the various regions in an effort to develop cricket in the areas and each of the eight Area Committees in Essequibo received $50 000 while
to deliver this time, insideedging a full toss from offspinner Engelbrecht to fine leg. The loss was Tridents’ second following a similar narrow defeat to Kings XI Punjab last Saturday,
similar donations were made in Berbice and Linden. The clubs that received balls from the Upper Pomeroon area were: Eagles Sports Club, Rising Sun Sports Club and JackLow Sports Club and from the Lower Pomeroon area were Pomeroon Oil Mill from Charity, Teneze Ferme Sports Club, Friendship Sports Club, Super Kings Friendship Sports Club and Scorpion Sports Club. The distribution was made at the Pomeroon Sports Committee Executive meeting where the Norbert Alphonso and Hassan Rahim Memorial T20 cricket Secretary of Pomeroon Sports competition was officially Committee, Verna D’Aguiar, hands launched and will see the over a box of balls to captain of Eagles eight clubs participate in the competition which Sports Club, Kenneth De Agrella. will commence tomorrow.
and it left them needing to win their two remaining games to have any chance of advancing to the semifinals. For the second straight game, Tridents bowlers were loose up front and Cobras capitalised to race to 52 without loss off four overs. Levi was the main catalyst, smashing four fours and three sixes off his 18 balls. He helped himself to 26 from seamer Jason Holder’s second over, the third of the innings – twice finding the boundaries and thrice clearing the ropes. He was undone by one from left-arm spinner Akeal Hosein which ripped from leg to rattle off stump in the fifth over. Amla, dropped by Munaweera before he had scored off the fifth ball of the innings by Holder, took charge for Cobras, striking seven fours and a six off 42
balls. The right-hander reached his half-century with a six over wide long-on off Mendis and then enjoyed a huge slice of luck on 52 in the next over, the 14th, when he holed out to deep-square only for replays to show that Hosein had over-stepped. Mendis put down Amla in the next over off a low caught-and-bowled chance but had him stumped off the following delivery. Mendis, who had four overs earlier lured Ramela from his crease and had him stumped off a googly at 99 for two, then spun Tridents back into the game by drying up the runs and taking key wickets. However, Engelbrecht, who finished 19 not out and Justin Kemp, 12 not out, held their nerve in an unbroken 31-run, sixthwicket stand to set up a grand finish.
BCB/BBC semi-finals bowl off tomorrow … Carib Beer T20 starts today
FIRST Division cricketers in the Ancient County of Berbice are in for a busy weekend from today, as several matches in two different competitions are scheduled for the next two days, including the Berbice Cricket Board/Berbice River Bridge Company 50 overs semifinals. The action will commence today with the opening round of matches in the BCB/ Ansa McAl Limited Carib Beer T20 competition, with five first-round matches. This competition will be played on a round-robin basis in three zones, namely West Berbice, Canje/ New Amsterdam/East Bank and Corentyne and after the preliminary rounds the top two teams from each zone will advance to the play-offs. In the West Berbice zone, Blairmont Community Centre will take on West Berbice at Blairmont and Bush Lot Rising Star will tackle D’Edward at Bush Lot, while in the Canje/New Amsterdam/East Bank zone, Young Warriors are down to play
Universal Solutions Bermine at Cumberland and Edinburgh will have home advantage against Police. In the Corentyne zone, Port Mourant will trade skills with Rose Hall Town Gizmos and Gadgets at Port Mourant, while the boys from Skeldon have drawn the bye. All matches are scheduled to start
at 13:30hrs. Also on for today is the second round BCB/BRBC 50 overs-a-side fixture wherein Albion will be hosting GuyTrac Upper Corentyne at Albion in a rescheduled fixture, with the winner playing Port Mourant at Port Mourant tomorrow in one semifinal, while the other semifinal will pit RHT Gizmos and Gadgets against Universal Solutions Bermine at Albion.
CRICKET QUIZ CORNER Saturday September 27, 2014) Compliments of THE TROPHY STALL-Bourda Market &The City Mall (Tel: 225-9230) & CUMMINGS ELECTRICAL CO. LTD-83 Garnette Street, Campbellville (Tel: 225-6158; 223-6055) Answers to yesterday’s quiz: (1) 66 Tests; 4399 runs (2) Kenneth Benjamin Today’s Quiz: (1)Where and when Bangladesh did not lose a Test match for the first time? (2) How many venues have hosted Test matches in the WI to date? Which was the first?
Answers in tomorrow’s issue