Noble House Seafoods 2nd division cricket …UG teach Everest a lesson with 9 wicket win

Apr 02, 2014 Sports

The University of Guyana (UG) got the better of Everest by nine wickets last weekend at the UG ground when play in the Noble House Seafoods two-day second division cricket competition continued.

Leon Williams

Everest won the toss and elected to bat and were all out for 205 off 61.2 overs; Kemraj Ramdeen hit 52 and Dwayne Perreira 49. Bowling for the home team, Dennis Heywood had 3-47 off 19.5 overs and Suresh Dhanai 3-32 off 12 overs.
UG in reply declared at 255 for 9 off 60 overs. Leon ‘Boo’ Williams hammered 11 fours in an entertaining even 100. Dhanai chipped in with 30 and Royan McAl scored an unbeaten 24. Left-arm spinner Javid Rasheed grabbed 5-66 off 20 overs for the Camp Road side.
Facing a deficit of 50 runs Everest were bowled out for 121 off 44.4 overs in their second innings. Three batsmen got into double figures. Mohan Ramdeen top-scored with 51 not out while Raphael Singh (24) and Randir Persaud (18) offered token support as four batsmen made ducks. Omesh Dhanram had 4-20 off 8.3 overs
Set 72 to win, UG reached 72-1 with Dhanai hitting 36 while Williams followed up his first innings ton with 29.