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Kaieteur News
Monday October 08, 2012
Auto Fashion triumph over Ray’s Auto Jayawardene quits Sales in feature softball fixture as Twenty20 captain
Auto Fashion defeated Ray’s Auto Sale in a feature 25 over softball match sponsored by Auto Fashion last Friday evening at the Everest Cricket Club ground. Auto Fashion won the toss and elected to bat, and posted a respectable 275-4 off their allocation of overs. Rupie Sewjattan blasted an unbeaten 142 and shared in a 170 run 3rd wicket stand with Saheed Mohamed who retired after he had scored an even century. The pair came together after they had lost opener
Karamchand Kasan who was bowled behind his back for 1 with the score on 6 in the second over, and Paul Parsram for 9. Sewjattan slammed ten sixes and five fours, while Mohamed hit eleven sixes and three fours. Ray’s Auto Sale in reply ended on 215-9 when their overs expired. Ramo Manoj was their leading run getter with 70 (8x6, 2x4), while Reaz Khan supported with 23 as Rajesh Tirbini grabbed 3-21 for the winners. Sewjattan collected the man of the match award while Auto Fashion took the winning trophy.
Mahela Jayawardene (left) said it was always his plan to quit the T20 captaincy after the tournament. (Getty Images)
The victorious Auto Fashion team.
Sammy says glorious win “for the people” Colombo, Sri Lanka – Darren Sammy led the West Indies to an amazing capture of the ICC World T20 championship on Sunday as they outplayed Sri Lanka at the R Premadasa Stadium. The captain turned in a good all-round performance with 26 not out and two wickets for six runs as West Indies won by 36 runs. The star of the show was Marlon Samuels, who playing some breathtaking strokes in a facesaving 78 off 56 balls to haul the Windies out of deep trouble. Off-spinner Sunil Narine was the best bowler with 3-9 – his third brilliant bowling performance in as many matches to follow-up the 320 against New Zealand in the Super Eights and 2-17 against Australia in Friday’s epic semi-final. Sammy and his team celebrated their triumph in grand style and won the hearts of many fans worldwide. After lifting the trophy the captain dedicated the performance to the millions of West Indies supporters at home at all over the world. “We will definitely cherish this moment, I will for sure. We’re going to relive it every day of our lives. This is the best moment for me in any cricket. This here [the trophy] is for the Caribbean people. West Indies fans all over the
world have been craving success. I know they’re partying from Jamaica down to Guyana, and we know how to party! I think they’ll need a lot of bartenders,” he said with a laugh. “This is definitely a step forward. We believe we can win matches. We’re not trying just to compete any more. We believe we can win against good opposition. We showed signs of that in the
last year or so, but we were not winning. Hopefully, this can be the start of something good for the West Indies team and the people.” Sammy also spoke of the team’s strong belief that they can overcome all hurdles. “We have a strong belief in God. You know, he works in mysterious ways, he performs wonders. Like I kept saying in every press conference, there’s a belief we
Darren Sammy soaks up the moment. (Getty Images)
have in the team. Yes, we expected them [Sri Lanka] to give us a good fight, and they did. Throughout the last year or so we’ve been showing that never-say-die attitude, but we’ve not been winning games. In this tournament, we’ve won games. Every man believed that whoever was out there could do the job. “Today, it was Marlon Samuels and (Dwayne) Bravo steadying the ship. In the end, every run counts. The bowling discipline was just brilliant and so was the fielding. I said we needed our A-plus game, this here is proof of it. While the match was unfolding, the coach was saying that if we made the score we got against them in Pallekele in the Super Eights (129-5) on this wicket, we’ll win the match,” Sammy said. “The momentum we had from our batting carried through to our bowling. It was Dwayne Bravo’s birthday, so in the huddle I gave him the chance to say the last words before we went on the field. He said: ‘Let’s go out there and give it our all. If we do that and play how we can play, these runs are going to be a fighting total’. Ravi (Rampaul) started it off with his first ball and we never looked back from there.”
Cricinfo - Mahela Jayawardene has resigned as Sri Lanka’s Twenty20 captain, soon after his team lost the final of the World Twenty20 against West Indies in Colombo. He said he will remain captain of the ODI and Test teams until at least the end of Sri Lanka’s tour of Australia in January, and remains available for Twenty20 selection. “I had a chat to the selectors before this tournament started. I was going to step down from T20 captaincy after this World Cup,” Jayawardene said. “I personally feel that for Sri Lanka going forward we need a younger leader. It’s a great opportunity for somebody to start in that T20 format. I’ve spoken to the selectors and they were quite happy with that choice.”
Vice captain Angelo Mathews has been groomed for captaincy over the past 18 months, and is the obvious candidate to take the reins in the shortest format. Jayawardene, 35, had given up the captaincy in all formats in 2009, but resumed leadership when Tillkaratne Dilshan quit the post in January this year. In his second stint at the helm, Jayawardene has seen himself as an interim captain until the younger crop of Sri Lanka players are ready to step into leadership. In addition to Dilshan, Kumar Sangakkara has also led the side in recent years, before resigning after Sri Lanka’s World Cup final loss in 2011. “I took over till the Australia tour, so I’ll assess what I want to do after that,” Jayawardene said.
WCDUCL\President’s Cup t\20
Adams hits century as MMZE beat Uitvlugt by 33 runs National U-19 player Ricardo Adams hit a commanding century as Meten-Meer-Zorg East Uprising Star defeated host Uitvlugt by 33 runs as play in the West Coast Demerara United Cricket League\President’s Cup twenty\20 cricket competition continued last Saturday with one match. Meten-Meer-Zorg East took first turn at the crease and scored 178-7 off their allotted overs. They were off to a good start as openers Adams and Wayne Osborne put together 77 for the first wicket before Osborne was leg before to Carlos Garuhu for 18. Komal Persaud was then caught behind for 1 off Lincoln Leander who also accounted for Kemo Paul (11) to leave the score at 92-3. Adams then dominated a 65 run 4th wicket partnership
with Damien Van Tull as he slammed ten sixes and six fours before he was dismissed for 114. Vantull made 23 as Khemraj Ramsundar finished with 3-19 off 3 overs, and Leander 2-20 from 3. Uitvlugt in reply lost Khellawan Tulcan for 14 who was caught off pacer Chandreka Ragnauth at 25. Richard Baker who top scored with 40 added 42 runs for the second wicket stand with Vikash Dhaniram before Dhaniram was dismissed for 30 to leave the score at 67 in the fifth over. Ganesh Narine was the only other batsman that offered any resistance with 23 as Uitvlugt were all out for 145 in 19.1 overs. Left arm spinner Imran Khan was the pick of the bowlers for the winners with 3-20 off 4 overs, while Van Tull, Osborne, and Navishaul Pooran took 1 each.