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32. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2014. THE VINCENTIAN
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Police brings P20 to local cricket
Police ONE in pre-match photo.
dismissed for 85 in 32.5 overs. Hooper was the top bowler The lawmen showed a bit of fight in the second Team name: Police ONE. Players: 11. Team Total: 20 once again, with figures of 4innings, with Parnel Browne hitting two sixes in his runs. Batsmen failing to get off the mark in the match: 19 and a match haul of 8/24 topscore of 29, and Calliston Cottoy (15), who was 10. Batsmen making a pair in the match: 3. as his team wrapped up run out in both innings, putting together 34 for the These were some of the stats of the P20 (Police victory just after 3pm. third wicket. But it all fell into the foxhole as the 20) conjured up by the lawmen in their first innings Earlier, Team Rivals, led lawmen went from 68/4 to 74/9 before being against joint defending champions Team Rivals, as by Harley Skerritt, 70, and action got going in the 2014 National Cricket season Roneil at Arnos Vale TWO. Asif Hooper - chief Jeffrey,43, The total is among the lowest team score in local wrecker with match declared at figures of 8-24. cricket. 212/8 in 43.3 They went on to lose the match by an innings and overs in 107 runs after only reaching 85 in their second ideal batting conditions. Browne innings, when faced with a deficit of 192 runs. finished with 3/30. SCORES: Team Rivals 212/8, Police ONE 20 & Competition continues this 85. weekend with action in the With T20 and the Soca Artiste DJ20 getting Premier Division featuring: Joint seasonal attention, Vincentians are expected to go champions Victors ONE meeting with gay abandon as they merge sports, The News Spartans at the main entertainment and law enforcement for the ‘Hottest Arnos Vale Playing Field; Summer Festival’ in a few months’ time, in memory Guardian General Saints versus of last weekend’s display by members of the LIME Radcliffe at Arnos Vale constabulary. TWO; and Police TWO taking on But Commissioner of Police Michael Charles, Carl Joseph Law Chambers ASCO Deputy Hadaway and Assistants Lenford Sampson, at Stubbs. a former national pacer, and Frankie Joseph may all All games commence at 1:00pm be chanting, ‘after doing so bad feed dem stinging Saturdays and 10:00am on nettle fuh dem to sho some mettle’. Sundays. Police ONE batsman Gosnel Cupid (16) drives through the offside. by E. GLENFORD PRESCOTT
Showing some fight, but….
A dismal display
“We really did not apply ourselves in this match…..we just cannot make any excuses for such a poor batting performance on this pitch,” confessed Police ONE captain, Vertel Davis, as he stood leaning on his car, gazing in disbelief at the empty playing field where his side had, minutes before, acted as deserters instead of battening down the hatches. Davis, who won the toss and inserted the opposition, cut a forlorn picture from the grinning individual who told Team Rivals captain “You all will bat,” upon winning the toss. Their troubles, however, did not manifest themselves until just before the close of play when they were asked to bat for half an hour, a period in which they lost four wickets without a run on the board, to end the day at five wickets for four runs. On day two, the ‘Carnage at Arnos Vale TWO’ continued, with the lawmen running into a murderous fusillade from the relentless Team Rivals marksmen, and quickly ‘gave up the ghost’, to fall for 20 in 13 overs. Left arm seamer Deighton Butler took 4/10 and left-arm spinner Asif Hooper 4/5, as six batmen failed to trouble the scorers, including the opening pair, Marcus John and Peter Morris, and middle order batsman Gerald Gould, who all got a pair. Despite coming nine days before the 75th anniversary of the 1929 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago, the clinical action and execution by Team Rivals could be used as a sporting re-enactment of that episode of three quarters of a century ago.
James in Windwards 4-day squad AFTER MISSING out on selection to the Windward Islands squad for the Nagico Super50 West Indies cricket tournament currently in progress in in Trinidad and Tobago, Vincentian wicketkeeper/batsman Lindon James has been included in the Windwards squad for the Mervin Mathew Garey Mathurin – Nelon Pascal Regional 4-day Lindon James has makes a return his omission may should add some tournament. been recalled to after being have surprised experience to the Also included is assume absent for a few some pundits in fast bowling Grenadian fast responsibility seasons. the sub-region. department. bowler Nelon behind the stumps. Pascal who was The squad, which Pascal. not a member of the 50 over side. opens its campaign against Windwards , eliminated at the Pascal will be joined in that defending champions Barbados in preliminary round of this year’s department by Mervin Mathew St Lucia on February 28th ,in a Super 50 after going into the who makes a return to the 4-day day/night encounter, reads, tournament as defending squad after a leave of absence for Liam Sebastein (captain), Andre champions, and, according to personal reasons. Fletcher, Devon Smith, Johnson team officials, determined to Notable omission is St. Lucian Charles, Keddy Lesporis, improve upon their semi-final left-arm orthodox spinner Garey Thyrone Theophile, Dalton place in last year’s 4-day Mathurin, while Vincentians will Polius, Lindon James, Delorn tournament. be pleased with the inclusion of Johnson, Kenroy Peters, Mervin their own, Alston Bobb, also a Mathew, Alston Bobb and Nelon I.B.A.ALLEN left-arm orthodox spinner..