Boys Inter-Club Super-50 Tournament…… TSC to clash with GCC in final

THE Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Government of Guyana (GOG) Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports (MCYS), Under-19 Inter-Club Super-50

Tournament 2023, continued on Sunday, April 9, 2023, with a highly competitive match between Bel-Air Rubis U-19 and

Transport SC played at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground.

Bel Air Rubis won the toss and elected to bat, reaching 177 all out in 46.5 overs with Rudranauth Kissoon scoring 48 with 29 extras which added to the total. Transport bowling saw Jeremiah Hohenkirk bagging (4-28) from 8 overs while Alvin Mohabir (229) and Stephon Sankar (2-43).

In reply, Transport ended on 184- 6 to seal an

In a dramatic second half, Salah missed his second successive penalty when he shot wide after Rob Holding fouled Diogo Jota before Firmino rose at the far post to head home Alexander-Arnold’s cross with three minutes left.

In a frantic climax, Arsenal goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale - who had already saved crucially from Darwin Nunez - produced two incredible stops from Salah and Ibrahima Konate as Mikel Arteta’s pace-setters had to settle for a point, with Liverpool fully deserving their share of the

Liverpool had produced an insipid performance and were being outplayed until Xhaka unwisely chose to tangle with Alexander-Arnold, the incident injecting Jurgen Klopp’s side with the energy and inspiration they had been lacking - and crucially bringing the Anfield crowd into play

Salah’s goal was the perfect invitation to mount a second-half siege in front of the Kop and it was one Liverpool accepted as they finally showed some of their true form.

Arsenal were penned back and it took an outstanding display of goalkeeping from Ramsdale to prevent a resurgent Liverpool from completing the perfect comeback.

While Liverpool’s attack looked more potent after the break, once again they looked so vulnerable at the back and both Arsenal goals were cheap.

In the final reckoning it is a result that suits neither side, reducing Liverpool’s chances of a top-four place even further and offering a boost to Arsenal’s title rivals Manchester City, who trailed by eight points at the start of the weekend but have now seen that gap come down by two points and still have a game in hand on the north Londoners.

CMC – Retired West Indies all-rounder Deandra Dottin struck a half-century and grabbed two wickets in a Player-of- the-Match performance, as she propelled Barmy Army to a 17-run victory over Hayley Matthews’s Warriors in the

Fairbreak Invitational here Sunday.

Sent in at the Kowloon Cricket Club, Barmy Army stormed to 163 for six from their 20 overs, Dottin top-scoring with 69 from 48 deliveries and Rumana Ahmed getting 37 from 28 emphatic win in 44.2 overs. Riyad Latif led with an unbeaten 56, while Hohenkirk (22*), Ryan Latif 30, Shiloh Adams (21), and Alvin Mohabir (29), supported the half-centurion. Bowling for Bel Air Rubis, young Ajay Gainda was the most successful with 2-16. Transport SC will now clash with the George - town Cricket Club (GCC), in the Demerara Final on Tuesday, April 11, 2023, from 1030 at the Georgetown Cricket Club, ground.