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Dec 01, 2011 Sports
By Sean Devers
Rain and Berbician off-spinner Eon Hooper sent favourites Church’s Chicken Corentyne Titans crashing out of the Guyana Cricket Board’s Carib/Pepsi Big Smash t20 cricket competition at Bourda yesterday as the President’s X1 and the Gizmos & Gadgets Georgetown Pitbulls both won their semi-final matches.
In brilliant sunshine at the Region’s third Test venue, the Pitbulls beat Mario Pizza’s West Berbice by 29 runs in the day’s opening game before rain ended the second semi-final with Corentyne, who needed to be at 55-4 after six overs on the Duckworth/Lewis system, on 36-4 replying to the 144-5 made by the President’s X1.
The Pitbulls will now clash with the President’s X1 in Sunday’s final from 13:00hrs at Albion after the Titans and West Berbice clash in the third place play-off in an all Berbice affair from 09:00hrs.
Trevon Griffith (31) and Rajendra Chandrika (47) added 42 in five overs for the Pitbulls before the left-handed Griffith was removed by Eon Abel who then had Leon Johnson (6) caught behind 16 runs later.
Chris Barnwell made 27 and his fellow West Indies t20 player Derwin Christian scored 12 before the versatile Steven Jacobs continued his good recent form with an unbeaten 21 from 16 balls to take the City side to 151-5 when their 20 overs expired on the heavy outfield.
Abel finished with 2-16 from four overs, while former West Indies under-19 pacer Keon Joseph had 2-23 from four overs.
Test pacer Brendon Bess conceded 30 runs from his two overs after Griffith smashed him for two sixes and a four in his final over as the Pitbulls began their innings with all guns blazing.
Karamdat Bissoondyal top scored with 46 but only Kwasie Mentore (20*) and Abel (16) of the other batsmen reached double figures as West Berbice fell for 122 in 19.2 overs after being well placed on 75-3.
Jacobs then got rid of Romain Boodram (3) and Richard Ramdeen (0) to leave the Region Five team on 9-2 and they never recovered as left-arm spinner Totaram Bishun followed up his six-wicket haul in the last game with 4-27 and off-spinning all-rounder Deon Ferrier grabbed 3-15 for the hosts.
In the second game, a small crowd watched as Skipper Vishaul Singh led the way for the President’s X1 with a solid 50 before he was run out.
Dellon Heyliger made 35 while Elton Baker, who along with Berbician Sewnarine Chattergoon scored centuries in the preliminary rounds, made a cameo 25 after Norman Fredericks was stumped off National spinner Stephen Latcha for nine at 29-1.
Narsingh Deonarine took 2-20 from three overs for the Corentyne unit who lost crucial wickets at regular intervals before rain had the final say in the truncated contest.
After a delay in the start of their innings to get the correct format of the Duckworth/Lewis sheet printed out, the Corentyne side lost Chattergoon (9) at 15-1 when he pulled Hooper to deep mid wicket before Deonarine was trapped leg before for a duck to a beautifully bowled delivery from the Rose Hall Town spinner.
Skipper Royston Crandon seemed unlucky to be given leg before to Hooper for five and when Rajiv Ivan (2) lobbed a slower ball from West Indies youth pacer Ronsford Beaten to point just before the rains came, the President’s X1 players were already celebrating.
Despite desperate efforts from the Berbice players to get the game restarted by assisting with the mopping-up operations, the game was eventually called off in fading light without a restart resulting in the President’s X1 winning by 19 runs on the Duckwork/Lewis system. Hooper finished with 3-11 for the President’s X1
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