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GUYANA CHRONICLE Saturday, October 22, 2016
Vandersay’s six-for headlines Sri Lanka A series win LEG-SPINNER Jeffrey Vandersay took 6 for 47 in the final innings to lead Sri Lanka A to victory in Dambulla. West Indies A were set a target of 333 but with no one even managing a fifty, the hosts wrapped up a 138-run victory, and with it the series 2-1. The chase had begun positively with Kieran Powell, who had briefly flirted with a career in baseball, back at the top of the order and kicking things off with a 41-ball 44. West Indies A were 124 for 3 - chugging along at a run-rate just under four - when Vandersay blitzed through their middle order to bowl them out for 194. He took two wickets in the 48th over, including that of captain and top-scorer Shamarh Brooks for 46, handed the opposition five of their six single-digit scores and completed his ninth fivefor in 29 first-class matches. While the bowling they faced was good, West Indies A would rue the fact that they collapsed from reasonably strong positions. In the first innings they had Shimron Hetmyer - 94 off 91 balls, with 17 fours - and Brooks - 54 off 100 balls -
Leg-spinner Jeffrey Vandersay bagged six for 47.
doing well before they lost eight wickets for 104 runs to concede a lead of 75. In the second innings, West Indies lost seven wickets for 70 runs to concede the match. Another measure of where West Indies A lost the match lay in the number of partnerships over 50. There were eight overall - and they contributed only two of them. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka A had begun the game with an agenda-setting 133-run stand between openers Kusal Perera (69) and Sandun Weerakkody (79) in the first innings. It was key to building a total of 318. Then fast bowler Kasun Madushanka and left-arm
wrist-spinner Lakshan Sandakan took three wickets each and left-
arm seamer Lahiru Gamage chipped in with two to bowl West Indies A out for 243. All three were picked in Sri Lanka’s Test squad to play against Zimbabwe in Harare next Saturday. Sri Lanka A swelled a lead of 75 to match-andseries-winning proportions in their second innings with Weerakkody smacking 48 off 36 balls and Asela Gunaratne collecting 69 off 126 balls. Rahkeem Cornwall was the only opposition they faced, the off-spinner picking up 4 for 87 from 26 overs to finish with 23 wickets from three matches. (ESPN Cricinfo)
SCOREBOARD SRI LANKA A 1st innings 318 WEST INDIES A 1st innings 243 SRI LANKA A 2nd innings (o/n 211 for five) K. Perera c wkp. Hamilton b Cornwall 20 S. Weerakkody lbw b Cornwall 48 L. Thirimanne c Hetmyer b Corwall 27 A. Gunarathne c wkp. Hamilton b Joseph 69 C. Asalanka c Johnson b Cornwall 4 R. Silva c Chandrika b Joseph 44 D. Shanaka not out 33 Extras: (b-6, lb-2, w-3, nb-1) 12 Total: (6 wkts decl., 74.2 overs) 257 Fall of wickets: 1-67, 2-72, 3-135, 4-141, 5-192, 6-257. Bowling: Roach 10-0-43-0 (w-2), Johnson 18-4-57-0, Cornwall 268-87-4 (nb-1), Jacobs 9-0-32-0, Joseph 11.2-3-30-2 (w-1). WEST INDIES A 2nd innings (target: 333 runs) R. Chandrika lbw b Sandakan 30
K. Powell lbw b Sandakan 44 S. Hetmyer c Sandakan b Asalanka 18 S. Brooks c Thirimanne b Vandersay 46 V. Singh c Gunaratne b Vandersay 6 J. Hamilton c Asalanka b Vandersay 25 R. Cornwall lbw b Vandersay 0 K. Roach b Sandakan 4 D. Johnson c Gunaratne b Vandersay 0 D. Jacobs c Asalanka b Vandersay 5 K. Joseph not out 4 Extras: (b-6, lb-1, nb-5) 12 TOTAL (all out, 67.2 overs) 194 Fall of wickets: 1-63, 2-88, 3-108, 4-124, 5-171, 6-171, 7-184, 8-184, 9-186. Bowling: Gamage 9-4-33-0, Madushanka 3-0-23-0, Asalanka 8-1-16-1, Sandakan 21-6-61-3 (nb5), Vandersay 21.2-5-47-6, Shanaka 5-1-7-0.
Minister of Education declares IGG Games open MINISTER of Education, Rupert Roopnaraine emphasised the great role that sport plays in breaking social barriers during the speech he made just before declaring the Inter-Guiana ‘Goodwill’ Games officially open last evening at the National Track and Field Centre at Leonora. Before an audience of Guyanese and Surinamese athletes and officials Minister Roopnaraine said that sport provides a great avenue for people to look beyond the social boundaries, especially racial ones, and focus more on the abilities that persons possess.“I can think of nothing better than sports to deal with our ethnic issue, ethnic division and such things. You know when you are on a cricket team or a soccer team you don’t look to see who is of what race, you look to see how well he can defend his position, how well he can bat, bowl and those issues. So sport remains a major area in which we can deal with ethnic issues and ethnic difficulties.” Roopnaraine said. Also making remarks at the ceremony was Suriname’s Director of Sports, Luciano Mentowikromo, who started off by commending the Department of
Sports for the tremendous effort that has been put into hosting the event, with athletes from Suriname and Guyana taking part this year. Mentowikromo also spoke of how the event works to bring the youths of the countries together in unity, and helps to develop themselves as athletes. Usually called the Inter-Guiana Games and held among athletes from Suriname, Guyana and French Guiana, the event goes without French Guiana this year. This follows no hosting of the Games last year. During his speech Mentowikromo touched on his regret that French Guiana could not be here. Nonetheless, Mentowikromo is convinced that this year’s hosting will be successful and will continue in the objectives of sportsmanship and fun. This year the athletes of the two countries will compete in seven sport disciplines, namely athletics, basketball, volleyball, swimming, badminton, table tennis and futsal. Following the brief opening ceremony the athletics competition began where Guyana bagged a number of wins.
No formula to stop Messi, says Valencia’s Prandelli Pune to host first ( R E U T E R S ) - Va l e n c i a coach Cesare Prandelli has conceded there is no point trying stop Lionel Messi as he prepares to face the inform Barcelona talisman when his side host the La Liga champions today. Former Italy coach Prandelli got off to a winning start in his first game in charge of the struggling six-times La Liga champions, overseeing a 2-1 win at Sporting Gijon to move clear of the relegation zone. Prandelli, set for his first
Lionel Messi game at the Mestalla stadium, admitted he was facing an impossible task to tame a rampant Messi, who scored a hat-trick in Barcelona’s 4-0 thrashing of Manches-
ter City in the Champions League on Wednesday. “I will sleep very well because I know there is no formula to stop Messi, he is magnificent,” Prandelli told a news conference on Friday. “Messi is fantasy football, he is what every child dreams about, because he is proof that when you have character, determination and talent you can make history. All the children in the world want to be Messi and I’m proud to face him.” Barcelona are fourth in
the La Liga standings on 16 points, two behind leaders Atletico Madrid while Valencia are 14th on nine. “We’ll need to maintain concentration throughout the game and be organised tactically. Whenever we lose the ball we need to press Barca quickly,” Prandelli added.”When you face Barcelona you know you’re going to suffer, but in certain moments of the game we have to know how to make them suffer.”
India-Australia Test in 2017
(REUTERS)-The western Indian city of Pune will stage its first Test when the home side plays Australia in the opener of the four-match series starting February. The Pune Test starts Feb. 23 before Australia travel to Bengaluru for the second match from March 4. Two more venues -- Ranchi and Dharamshala -- will also host their first tests with the third and fourth matches of the Border-Gavaskar series.
The scheduling will force some Australia players, who play all three formats, to miss a three-match Twenty20 international series against Sri Lanka at home, with the first test in India starting a day after the final game against Sri Lanka. With Australia suffering a 3-0 thrashing in their recent Test series in Sri Lanka, there have been talks about
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