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Persaud bowls NSC to victory A five wicket haul by leg spinner Deonarine Persaud guided Noitgedacht Sports Club to narrow victory over Maria’s Pleasure Sports Club in a feature 30 over match played on Sunday last at the NSC ground. The game, which was sponsored by NSC Chairman Trevor Stewart, saw the home team batting first and despite losing a few early wickets, scored a challenging 191 before they were bowled out in 28.4 overs. Matthew Cheong made a run a ball 40 while Neil Ramalho supported with 24 as Kennard Lewis captured 3-29 and Bernard Lewis 3-40. The visitors in reply made 189 all out in 29.1 overs. Kennard Lewis was their leading batsman with 43, while Ryan Gordon stroked
39. The pair shared in a fighting fourth wicket stand of 76 after they were reduced to 20-3 in 4 overs before Gordon was caught at mid wicket off Persaud, who then accounted for Lewis two overs later, as the host fought back. Bernard Lewis 38 was the only other batsman that showed resistance as Maria’s Pleasure fell just short of their target. Persaud was the most outstanding bowler for the winners with 5-20 while Anthony Osborne took 2-55. NSC received a trophy for their efforts, while Kennard Lewis took the man of the match prize. Speaking after the game, Stewart congratulated the Noitgedacht team and encouraged the players to take the game seriously.
Jaguars resume preparation for International commitments Georgetown, Guyana The Golden Jaguars commence the first stage of their preparation for next months World Cup qualifiers and 2012 Caribbean Football Union Cup, with training session throughout this week at the Police Sports Cup Ground, Eve Leary from 7:30 to 9:00 am daily. These sessions will mainly be focused on the fitness enhancement and assessment of the players via a conditioning plan by the teams Brazilian trainer Americo Falopa. Supervising the team for the week, will be national assistant coach Wayne Dover in the absence of national coach Jamaal Shabazz. Shabazz has commitments with his Trinidad and Tobago club Caledonia AIA, in the CONCACAF Champions League this week versus Honduras team Marathon. With the European,
Caribbean and North American players also currently unavailable due to club engagements, the assembling squad will be 18 man local-based contingent. Some of the more notable players in the squad are striker Anthony “Awo” Abrams, mid-fielder Konata Manning and wingers Dwight Peters and Dwain Jacobs. Although the final two World Cup qualifiers versus CONCACAF giants Mexico and Costa Rica on October 12th & 16th respectively is high on the agenda, one eye is also being placed as aforementioned on the Caribbean Football Union Cup. 25 teams have entered the qualification process for the C a r i b b e a n Championship competing for a total of 8 spots in the final tournament. Guyana have been placed in Group two and will face hosts St. Lucia, Curacao and St. Vincent and the Grenadines
from October 21-25th. Even though the qualifying tournament is also part of 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualifying process, the tournament has not been included by FIFA on the FIFA International match calendar meaning that the participating nations’ first choice players may not be available to play due to club commitments. With this factor in mind, coach Dover has noted there is much incentive at hand for the local players to impress to be a part of those matches. Guyana training squad: Richie Richard, Dellon Young, Derrick Carter, Jason Crumwell, Les Charles Chrichlow, Dwain Jacobs, Kester Jacobs, Philbert Moffat, Konata Manning, Andrew Murray Jr, Dwight Peters, Anthony Abrams, Daniel Wilson, William Europe, Aloysius Edwards, Anthony Benfield, Anthony Abrams, Clive Nobrega.
Wednesday September 26, 2012
2012 Hand-in-Hand Second Division 40-overs Cricket Competition in West Berbice
Hopetown Utd through to the final Hopetown United have become the first team to reach the final of the inaugural 2012 Hand-in-Hand Second Division 40-Over Cricket Competition which was organised by the Berbice Cricket Board for teams in West Berbice. They achieved this landmark after defeating rainbow Generation of Seafield by 41 runs in their semi-final. In the match which was played at the Hopetown Ground and which was reduced to 30 Overs-a-side because of the late arrival of the home team, Hopetown United won the toss and chose to bat first. They lost Kelwin Bennet (0) in the first over with only 4 runs on the board after which Derwin Nelson and Steffon Adams put on 27 for the second wicket. After Nelson went for 13 and Ludwick Joseph for 2. Hopetown slipped to 37 for 3
Sunil Narine
Cricinfo - On a forgettable night fraught with soggy frustration for fans and disappointment for the exiting team, Sunil Narine produced a piece of cricketing brilliance that will linger with those who were watching closely. The first rain interruption had shaved two overs from the match, and as soon as play resumed, Darren Sammy brought Narine into the attack. Left-hander Ed Joyce was on strike and Narine opened with a menacing offbreak; whirring through the air unnervingly, dipping, pitching on leg stump and spitting beyond the batsman’s prod.
The victory was twofold for Narine. He had the batsman groping already, but there was also turn here, plenty more than there had been on previous evenings. On Saturday he had shaken off indifferent form in the practice matches to send down two good overs against Australia. Had he not overstepped in his second over and the free-hit been sent into the stands, he might have traveled at less than a run-aball on a surface favouring batsman. Joyce didn’t come close to hitting that first ball and, like Narine, knew now that the pitch was pulling for the
before Adams and Delon Wayne put on 60 for the 4th wicket after which Adams fell for the top score of 33. Wayne was then joined by Ruel Edwards and together they put on 42 more valuable runs with Wayne eventually falling for 28 and Edwards 25. Claude Saul (31) then held up the lower order
Women’s World Twenty20 set to begin with Sri Lanka vs. South Africa BBC Sport - The Women’s World Twenty20 begins on Wednesday, with hosts Sri Lanka facing South Africa in the opening game. All the women’s group matches are being played in Galle, with the semi-finals and final in Colombo. Australia are the defending champions after beating New Zealand in the 2010 final in Barbados. England, the 2009
Maturing Narine stays one step ahead Sunil Narine didn’t rely on mystery to defeat Ed Joyce, nor even on big turn. He cornered the batsman into surrendering his wicket a hallmark of a maturing spinner
Steffon Adams
enough to see Hopetown United reach a healthy 172 for 9 in their 30-Overs. Bowling for Rainbow Generation, Dunston Cummings took 2 for 19 and Keno Gravesande 2 for 27. When Rainbow Generation began their run chase, they almost immediately lost Dexter Cummings for 0. Brentnol Woolford (12) and Gravesande (18) then added 26 for the 2nd wicket but with pacer Claude Saul removing both of them, they slipped to 32 for 3. They never really recovered from this position and even though Dunston Cummings chipped in with 36 and Wayne Fraser 21, Rainbow only managed to reach 131 for 9 in their allotted 30 Overs. Bowling for Hopetown United Claude Saul took 3 for 29, Carwyn Wayne 2 for 14 and Steffon Adams 2 for 15.
bowler. He also knew that trotting down the wicket might be too big a risk. If the bowler sees him coming, a shorter delivery will take enough turn on this pitch to evade him. Even if Narine didn’t anticipate his advance, there would be no room for error. If the first ball was so charged with venom, maybe Narine will become even more difficult to judge in the flight as he warms to his work. Better to stay at home and play it off the turf. Smelling the batsman’s hesitance, Narine pitched another one on leg, only slightly shorter, to give Joyce an even better look at the deviation. The batsman prodded again, and again he was beaten thoroughly. Ireland’s run rate was flagging. With the game shortened and rain in the air, boundaries became more Continued on page 27
winners, open against Pakistan on Thursday and will be keen to banish memories of 2010, when they failed to reach the semi-finals. Although the women’s game sometimes struggles for media attention, all three World Twenty20 tournaments have benefited from being played in parallel with the men’s competition, with the semi-finals and final played on the same days and at the same ground as the men’s. Sri Lanka are not among the favourites for the title, but vice-captain Sandamali Dolawatta hopes the hosts can generate more backing from the locals if they get off to a winning start in Galle. “We need to win matches for the fans to support us,” she told the BBC Sinhala Service. “It is because Sri Lanka [men] won the World Cup in 1996 that Sri Lanka became a cricket-mad country. “This time we have the advantage of home conditions, so if we perform well, fans will support us. “Our first aim is to qualify for the semi-finals as the matches will be played in Colombo, just ahead of the men’s semifinals, so I think it will be the first time we play in front of such a big crowd.” The difference between the International Cricket Council’s prize money and daily living allowances for women and men have also
made headlines, but England skipper Charlotte Edwards insists that, although the ICC should look at the situation after the tournament, her squad’s focus is on the cricket. “It’s not about the money for us. If we played for money we would be playing different sports,” she told BBC Sport. All 14 of Sri Lanka’s female players serve in the country’s army, navy or air force, and captain Shashikala Siriwardene feels they have benefited from that link-up. “Those three services are doing a great job for us because they have allowed us to play full-time cricket,” she told the BBC Sinhala Service. “Although we are contracted by Sri Lanka Cricket, our financial situation was not that secure, [but now] what the girls have done is securing their future financial situation, especially keeping in mind the fact that we will have to retire from the game sooner or later.” South Africa have never won a World Twenty20 match, but captain Mignon du Preez said: “We are the underdogs, so we don’t have anything to lose and we can go out there and have some fun. “For Sri Lanka, it’s their home ground so they’re under a lot more pressure because they have to perform in front of their home audience.”