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GUYANA CHRONICLE Saturday August 6, 2016
Skipper Sammy axed from West Indies T20 side W E S T I n d i e s ’ Wo r l d Cup-winning captain Darren Sammy has been axed as skipper and dropped from the Twenty20 international team. Sammy took over as captain in 2010 and led the Windies to glory in the 2012 and 2016 editions of the ICC World Twenty20. Their victory in the final against England in April could now prove to be the 32-year-old’s final match for his country. The all-rounder retired
from Test cricket in 2014 and has not been selected for the one-day international team since March 2015. “I got a call yesterday from the chairman of selectors telling me that they reviewed the captaincy of T20 and I won’t be captain anymore of the T20 (team and) my performances have not merited selection in the squad,” he said in a video posted on Facebook yesterday. “That’s OK. Because
Sammy: West Indies cricket is not about Darren Sammy
I’ve always believed West Indies cricket is not about Darren Sammy. “I want to wish the new captain all the best. These memories I will cherish for a long time. This is not me retiring from one-day or T20. The captaincy journey has come to an end. I know I played with my heart and soul whenever I stepped out on the cricket field. “To all my players over the years who have been part of the team and played
under my captaincy, I want to thank you for all the support. “We’ve had our ups and downs but I have never given up hope. I’ve never stopped believing in myself and in the team. That is what I was about as captain. Trying to instil a positive, never-say-die attitude in my team. “The result - we’ve won two World Cups. I want to thank all of you for this period.” (Sportsmax.com)
Baseball Canada’s Women 21U Invitational …
Guyana go down 16-1 to Newfoundland THE Guyana Women 21U team yesterday played their first match in Baseball Canada’s Women 21U Invitational in Halifax Canada. The game against Newfoundland, one of Canada’s smaller provinces was the second of the competition. The Guyana Women, dubbed the Kanimas, got off to a slow start playing as the Home team for this game. Eight runs were allowed in the first innings and starting pitcher Sauda Smartt was moved to the outfield after being overcome with nerves as the first innings at bat saw the Kanimas hold their own, with a single from lead of batter Emily Ramsuchit Ramsuchit who then cleverly stole second, got to third on a passed ball and raced home on a double from Aletha Crandon to
score Guyana’s first International run in clever style. Unfortunately it was to be the only run scored as Marisa Jahoor was taken for four runs in the second. The coaches made the decision to make the change early to Shamira Ramsuchit who steadied the ship giving up only 2 runs before handing off to Ianna Graham who closed the last two innings with 4 strikeouts and one run conceded by an error at shortstop. Graham was awarded player-of-the-match for Guyana as the team went down 16-1. Team manager Robin Singh, after the game, preferred to look at the positives, saying, “We did have a deer in the headlights moment but the recovery was evident and we competed well in the closing innings of the match.”
The Guyana team before listening to a pre-match talk by one of the senior members
Guyana Under19s forced to follow-on against Trinidad & Tobago By Brij Parasnath DESPITE a defiant half-century by their national Under-17 captain Bhaskar Yadram, who is undefeated on 67 in their second innings, the Guyana national Under-19 team face the embarrassment of being beaten by their Trinidadian counterparts in their third round WICB 2-innings competition at the Sion Hill playing field in St Vincent & the Grenadines. Trinidad and Tobago spintwins Jonathan Bootan, with a career-best of 7 for 23 and Bryan Boodram (3 for 29), combined to demolish the defending champions for 85 (44.4 overs) in their first innings and placed their team in position to force an outright victory today. At the close of play on the second day yesterday, Guyana still needed another 102 runs to clear the 211-run deficit after they were forced to follow-on in their second
innings. They reached 102 for the loss of three wickets after 41.4 overs. Trinidad and Tobago’s first innings closed at 296 in 109.3 overs mainly through
BHASKAR YADRAM a brilliant innings from West Indies Youth player Kirstan Kallicharan who produced another inspirational knock that pushed Trinidad and Tobago
Under-19s to 289 for the loss of nine wickets in 107 overs on the first day (Thursday). Kallicharan played a captain’s knock and led by example as he batted resolutely and revived his team’s fortunes only to fall short of his second hundred of the three-match round-robin series. The 16-year-old righthander stroked ten fours off 226 balls before he was caught by Raymond Perez for 91 off the bowling of Malcolm Hubbard with the score at 170 for 5 after 76.3 overs. Kallicharan had joined Cephas Cooper after openers Keagan Simmons (1 off 3 balls) and Dejourn Charles (9 off 13 balls) were dismissed for 6 (1.2 overs) and 14 (4.3 overs). With Cooper, who made 17 (2x4 off 33 balls), Kallicharan posted 26 for the third wicket and then added a further 68 with vice-captain Saiba Batoosingh (16 off 86 balls) and 49 with Bryan Boodram 19 (1x4 off 82 balls) for the
fourth and fifth wickets respectively. Kallicharan’s QPCC clubmate Joshua DaSilva took charge of proceedings after the captain departed from centre-stage. He treated the Guyanese bowlers
with scant respect especially Sherfane Rutherford, whom he hammered for 18 runs in his return to bowl late in the afternoon. With two sixes and six fours, DaSilva raced to 60 before he was caught by Hubbard off the bowling of Sylus
Tyndall who had dismissed Cooper earlier in his first spell. Jonathan Bootan made 19 while Jabari Mills and Jarlanie Seales contributed 24 and 27 respectively after they forged a 49-run tenth wicket partnership. Looknauth Chinkoo bore the brunt of the Guyanese bowling and had figures of 37-17-65-2 while Tyndall (70-32-2) and Hubbard (14-326-2) were the other bowlers who accounted for two wickets each for Guyana. Travis Persaud (20-1-281), Rutherford (10-1-55-1), Ronaldo AliMohammed (5-224-1), Joel Sietaram (8-2-200), Bhaskar Yadram (5-1-24-0) and Raymond Perez (1-0-4-0) were the other bowlers who were pressed into service with the hope of restricting T&T to a much lower score in their first innings. For Guyana’s first innings, only Ronaldo Renee 20, Joshua Persaud 17 and Ronaldo AliMohammed 14 reached double figures while Bootan
(17.4-6-23-7) and Boodram (18-8-29-3) mystified them and shared all ten wickets. However, there is a glimmer of hope to salvage some pride as Yadram, promoted to the number three position; battled doggedly and remained unbeaten on 67 after they had lost two early wickets - Renee (8) and Joshua Persaud - both to medium pacer Negus Smith (6-0-18-20) who played in his first match of the series. Travis Persaud contributed 19 and featured in a fighting 77-run third-wicket stand with Yadram before he succumbed to the wiles of Bootan (6.41-11-1) who returned for his second spell. Today is the final day and while the Trinidadians will be pushing for outright victory, the rest of Guyanese batsmen must produce their best batting form for the series, if they are to salvage some lost pride and boost themselves for the 50-overs round-robin tournament which will follow this series.