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Dover comfortable with result against Martinique By Rawle Toney
Golden Jags skipper Sam Cox (#10), Marcel Barrington (#7) and Brandon Beresford battling a Martinique player during their clash at the MSC ground in Linden. (Samuel Maughn photo)
WAYNE Dover, head coach of the Golden Jaguars, said that he’s comfortable with scoreless result between Guyana and Martinique, after the two sides met on Tuesday evening in front of a packed Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) ground. Dover and his assistant Charles ‘Lily’ Pollard were tasked with kick-starting the rebuilding process of Guyana’s senior national men’s football team and their first opposition against a CONCACAF Gold Cup-bound Martinique, according to the team’s head coach was more than encouraging. Speaking at the game’s post-match press conference, Dover told reporters that “It’s a good result for us and in the process of rebuilding a result like this
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Sinclair, bowlers engineer Berbice Combined 90-run win … Essequibo, Berbice face off in final tomorrow
By Rajiv Bisnauth BERBICE bowlers ran through Georgetown-Mahaicony Combined line-up to post an easy 90-run win in the second semifinal in the Combined Phase of the National Secondary Schools cricket tournament yesterday at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground. The win means that Berbice Combined will face Essequibo Combined in the final tomorrow at the same venue. Berbice Combined leftarm spinners Nigel Deodat and Kelvin Umroa were the main architects in the run chase, as the hosts were
Nigel Deodat (right) and Kelvin Umroa share five wickets.
Ashmead Nedd is clean-bowled by Nigel Deodat (not in picture). (Adrian Narine photo) bowled out for 94 in 33.2 Seon Glasgow, Kelvon Anderson and Leon Swammy overs. Deodat finished with contributed a wicket each 3-18 while Umroa had 2-13. in the run chase of 184
made by Berbice Combined. Earlier, the visitors’ innings was built around opener Jason Sinclair’s 61 and Garfield Benjamin 46. The 16-year-old Sinclair shared in two meaningful partnerships as Berbice made 184
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all out in the final over of the innings. Put in to bat, the visitors got off to a relatively slow but steady start, as the new ball proved lively, prompting several close calls against openers Sinclair and Alex Algoo.
The pair brought up their 50-run stand off 69 balls, before it was broken by leftarm spinner Daniel Mootoo when he had Algoo stumped for 20. Sinclair was joined by Benjamin and the pair marched on comfortably. Sinclair began to blossom in a more attacking approach, reaching his half-century off 62 balls. The duo got Berbice Combined past the 100-run mark in the 25th over, but their fears of yet again wasting a strong foundation resurfaced when Sinclair’s 76-ball innings came to an end to a
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