Chanderpaul (83), Sattaur (79) put Demerara in strong position

Jun 03, 2011 Sports

By Sean Devers
National under-19 player Brandon Chanderpaul (83) and Brian Sattaur (79) hit attractive half-centuries in a century opening stand to put Demerara on top on the opening day of their GCB Inter County two-day Under-15 cricket match against Essequibo at the Guyana National Stadium yesterday.
In sultry conditions and on a slow track Demerara were in a strong position to capture first innings points from Essequibo who finished the day on 82-5 off 37 overs replying to the 264-7 off 65 overs made by the home team.
Kemo Paul struck six fours in 46 before he fell just before the close as his unrelated name sake Kevin Paul finished the day with 2-19 and leg-spinner Steven Sankar took 2-15 for Demerara.
Earlier, Skipper Sattaur and Chanderpaul built a solid foundation for Demerara after they had opted to bat on winning the toss before Sattaur pulled leg-spinner Rickado Peters to square leg as Essequibo who lost first innings points in their drawn first round game against Berbice, made the break through at 142-1.
Sattaur, an attractive left-hander from Lusignan played an array of delightful shots as Chanderpaul, the son of West Indies Test batsman Shiv Chanderpaul, played the supporting role to give Demerara the ascendency.
Sattaur hit 11 fours and a six from 91 balls in 111 minutes and by Lunch Demerara were 150-1 from 29 overs
with Chanderpaul on 59 and Shivendra Hemraj on three.
After the interval, a handful of spectators watched as Chanderpaul, the leading batsman in the Brainstreet Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Under-15 tournament, pulled spinner Kemol Savory for four, two overs later he smashed him gloriously to the extra cover boundary off consecutive balls to race into the 80s.
The left-hander from GYO was then dropped at square leg off Peters on 81 at 180-1 but the blunder did not prove costly for Essequibo as Chanderpaul, who faced 131 balls, batted for 181 minutes and reached the boundary 11 times, was caught and bowled by Akel Wallace at 185-2.
Hemraj (22) and Michael Shalim (21) took the score to 210 with positive batting on the lush green outfield before Demerara lost four wickets for 29 runs attempting to accelerate the scoring with the first innings allotment of 65 overs, running out.
Hemraj was run out while the versatile Peters removed Shalim 10 runs later to leave the score on 220-4. It was soon 235-5 when Wallace sent back Sumal Singh (7), Sankar was removed by Peters for eight at 239-6 and Akashaya Persaud fell in the final over for 20.
Peters, the leading player in the competition so far, finished with 4-91 from 21 overs, Savory supported with 2-61 from 20 overs.
Essequibo began their reply in horrendous fashion when the pint size Peters, with scores of 69 not out and 34 in the first round, was trapped leg before off the first ball of the innings by Kevin Paul to spark wild celebrations in the Demerara camp.
Paul then scattered the stumps of Parmesh Parsaton (5) at 11-2 before Kemo Paul and Skipper Devon George (21) repaired the damage with a 47-run partnership before Sankar had George caught and bowled.
Rockell Reddy joined Paul and carried the score to 72 before Reddy (3) offered Sankar a return catch at 72-4 and Paul fell four short of his fifty six runs later when he was caught off Omar Persaud. Today is the final day and the action is scheduled to commence at 09:00hrs.

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