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Oct 12, 2015 Sports
By Sean Devers
Both GNIC and TSC could have won their quarter-final of the GCA’s Noble House Seafoods second division two-day competition off the last ball at the GDF ground yesterday, but although GNIC pressed hard for a come-from-behind win and Chairman of the National selectors Rayon Griffith, was run out four short of an entertaining century with 10 needed in the last over, TSC won by five runs.
In the other quarter-final at the MSC ground, the hosts, in an embarrassing performance, were soundly beaten by eight wickets as the UG Students taught the Thomas Lands unit a cricketing lesson.
TSC will play GDF and UG will face GCC in the semi-finals next weekend since this Saturday has been reserved for the Carib Beer t20 division-one final between GCC and DCC.
At GDF, GNIC resumed on 125-5, still 109 runs away from TSC’s 233 and fell for 153 to give TSC an 80-run first innings lead.
Sheldon Chapman (9) and Joshua Vantull (10) were dismissed off successive balls from off-spinner Kevin Ross (5-19) before Joshua Wilson (3-40) bowled last man Orlando Fraser as the last three tumbled for no run.
TSC failed come to terms with the off-spin duo of Fraser (6-32 & 9 in the match) and veteran Clyde Butts (3-29 & 7 in the match) to crash to 116 once Charwayne McPherson was LBW for 10 to Fraser.
GNIC were set 197 to win and TSC must have turned their attention to the semi-finals. But GNIC fought back like a wounded Jaguar with Assistant Coach of the Guyana Jaguars, 36-year-old Griffith unleashing a brutal assault on the TSC bowlers in an 84-run seventh wicket stand with Ryan Shun (31).
When Griffith was run out at 187-9 for an attacking 96 decorated with nine sixes and seven fours, 10 were needed from the final over with last pair at the crease.
With six to get off the last ball in fading light Vantull (1) was taken on the long-on boundary off Shawn Massiah (4-78). He was supported by Kevin Ross (2-36 & 7 in the match) and Junior Duncan (2-50) and the celebrations began for the only team in the competition without a ground to practice on.
At MSC, the home team who made 130 in their first innings in reply to UG’s 199, began the final day on 12-2 and although ICC Americas’ Akeem Dodson looked quite accomplished in his top score of 32 and Skipper Steven Sankar (29) and Keefa Naughton (24) featured in 55-run seventh wicket stand, MSC crashed to 107 all out as they failed to build on good starts trying to play too many attacking shots in the contest of the match, which required MSC batting as long as possible.
The left-handed Dodson was stupendously taken one-handed to his left by an airborne Mahendra Persaud at slip with the ball almost past him, to the delight of the bowler Darnel Douglas.
Dodson’s 32 was decorated with three fours and three sixes and his demise at 47-5 was followed by Shaquille Moseley who was run out without addition to the score as Sankar and Naughton joined forces but failed to ‘dig in’ and bat ‘long’.
UG, set 39 to win lost both of their openers to the Vishal Narayan/Wicketkeeper Dodson combination to leave UG on 11-2.
Leon Williams was caught behind, while Dwayne Dodson was brilliantly stumped but Mahendra Persaud, who hit Nichosie Barker for two fours and a disdainful six in an over which cost 15 runs, ensured UG reached their target in a hurry. Dennis Haywood (10) was the other unbeaten batsman in an unfinished 28-run stand as Narayan took 2-11.
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Photo 2: Clyde Butts’ 7 wkt match haul could not prevent GNIC from losing by 5 runs to TSC.
Pen pic : Rayon Griffith’s 96 almost saw GNIC home.
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