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Jun 16, 2011 Sports
E’bo lose by 97 runs despite Surujpaul’s fifty
By Sean Devers at Providence
Kandasammy Surujnarine’s fluent half-century set the platform for left-arm spinner Gudkesh Motie and right-arm leg spinner Shawn Pereira to bowl Berbice to a 97-run victory against Essequibo on the final day of their opening round GTM Inter-County three-day under-19 cricket contest at the Providence Stadium yesterday.
Surujnarine struck nine fours from 130 minutes and 103 balls in his 68 while Dominique Rikhi (46) and Joemal LaFleur (35*) chipped in as Berbice declared 41 minutes after lunch on 195-3 after beginning the final day on one without loss.
Set 269 to win, Essequibo slumped from 130-3 to 172 all out with 20 minutes left in the day’s play as Pereira, who made his national under-19 debut last year, followed up his 3-91 in the first innings with 5-55 to claim his second five-wicket haul at this level after his first was achieved against Demerara last year.
Motie who had 5-50 in the first innings, supported with 4-44 as the two 16-year-olds combined to capture 17 of the 20 Essequibo wickets to fall in the match.
Seventeen year-old Vijay Surujpaul looked accomplished in his 51, while opener Kevon Boodie followed up his first innings 65 with a shot filled 37 but only National under-19 left-arm spinner Anthony Adams (27) and pacer Kevin Fredericks (24) of the other batsmen passed 15 as Essequibo lost eight wickets in the final session.
When Berbice resumed with a first innings lead of 73 yesterday they lost Veerapen Permaul (9) at 35 when he was bowled off the inside edge by First Class pacer Ronsford Beaton who generated some pace from the flat track in hazy sunshine.
Surujnarine and Dominique Rikhi joined forces to take the score to 129 with an attractive second wicket partnership of 94 before Surujnarine was stumped off Surujpaul off the final ball of the first session.
By Lunch, Berbice had extended their overall lead to 202 by scoring 201 runs in the opening session. Rikhi, who made 90 in the first innings, was unbeaten on 34 at Lunch.
After the interval Joemal LaFleur joined Rikhi with instructions to score as quickly as possible to facilitate a declaration inside the first hour of the second session.
Rikhi, a stylish ‘touch’ player, struggled to get the ball away when he tried to slog and was eventually caught and bowled by left-arm spinner Anthony Adams for 46 at 173-3 as LaFleur, who loves the opportunity to go after the bowling, dominated the breezy 54-run partnership.
LaFleur batted positively and ran hard and his unbeaten 35 came from just 39 balls although he did not hit a boundary. Clinton Pestano hit a six in his undefeated 18 as Berbice scored 66 runs in 41 minutes after Lunch before the declaration was made.
Essequibo began their reply in positive fashion with the right-handed Boodie smashing pacer Pestano for three boundaries in the first over before pulling him disdainfully for another when he bowled a bouncer in his next over.
In an effort to bowl as much overs as possible Berbice opened the bowling with Pestano and off-spinner LaFleur and the free scoring Boodie and Mark Gonsalves (3) took the score to 25 before Motie had his sixth LBW appeal in the match upheld to remove Gonsalves.
The dangerous Boodie (37) was then caught and bowled by Pereira at 61-2 just before Tea and by the break Essequibo were 74-2.
Surujpaul continued to bat well and along with Anthony Adams took the score to 96 before Adams (25) was leg before to Motie.
With the score on 130-3, Pereira trapped Surujpaul leg before for 51 which included four fours to trigger a dramatic, if not surprising Essequibo collapse as the team from the Cinderella County failed to counter the magic of the Berbice spinners and lost four wickets for no run to crash to 130-7.
Motie, who bowled really well, proved that he did not have to rely only on the umpires’ decisions for wickets by bowling Ricardo Adams (8) and having Seon Venture caught for a duck, while Herry Greene was leg before to Pereira without scoring as Berbice closed in on victory.
When Beaton (12) was caught behind off Linden Austin, Essequibo had slumped to 160-8, while Pereira soon removed Mark Tyrell (5) at 167 to bring the last pair together with less than 30 minutes of play remaining in the match.
But Fredericks, who went after the bowling, was eventually removed by Pereira to end the match as Essequibo were bowled out in 50 overs.
The competition continues tomorrow when Demerara face Essequibo at the Stadium from 10:00hrs.
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