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Mar 19, 2015 Sports
By Sean Devers
A hard pitch at the Enterprise Community Centre ground on the East Coast of Demerara backfired on the East Coast under-19 cricket team yesterday when their second round match against Georgetown in the Inter-Association 50-over game resulted in the hosts being blown away by nine wickets.
East Coast, who beat East Bank in the opening round on Tuesday at Enterprise, offered little resistance to the pace and bounce from fast bowler Carlton Jacques, who ripped out the first four batsmen before off-spinner Tariq Dharamlall finished off the innings with the first five-wicket haul of the four-team tournament as the hosts crashed to 53 all out from 27.5 overs.
The City side reached 66-1 in just 11.4 overs as the game was completed 13:32hrs much to the disappointment of a raucous turn out.
Vishwanauth Ramlakhan spooned a ball to mid-off as Jacques started the slide by removing Ramlakhan for a duck with just eight runs on the board.
Things got progressively worse for the home team when the lively Jacques, excellently utilizing overcast conditions and a strong breeze, induced Bashkar Yadram to edge one that left him before he had scored, to slip, while Ramnarine Chaturia got a beauty from Jacques, who got prodigious lateral movement in the air and off the seam, and edged it to the Keeper as two wickets tumbled for no run to leave the score on 15-3.
Jacques (4-15 from 8 overs) bowled with impressive pace to follow up his 2-46 in his team’s first round defeat to West Demerara at DCC, while Dharamlall went to work on the lower order with a mesmerizing eight-over spell which yielded five wickets for 12 runs as only Vivian Albert, who made an unbeaten 35 on Tuesday in his team’s win against East Bank, offered any resistance with two fours in 23.
But he was the only batsman to get into double figures and the total could have been less had Georgetown not conceded 15 extras.
When the team from the Nation’s Capital began their run chase they lost Joshua Ram for a duck when he top edged a pull to one that bounced viscously from off-spinner Richard Woolford and was taken at short fine-leg by Chaturia, running round from slip with just a run on the board.
Ram’s dismissal must have been a motivator for the East Coast team since he and Sherfane Rutherford had put on 52 for the first wicket in the opening round but the sun returned in all of its glory and conditions proved a lot easier for batting as Rutherford and Joshua Persaud joined forces.
The left-handed Rutherford, who hails from the East Coast, tucked into the bowling with increasing confidence after overcoming a testing period from pacer Gavin Moriah and Woolford, who opened the bowling and operated with good control although he bowled a bit too quickly on the ‘true’ surface.
While Persaud played the supporting role and knocked the ball into the gaps in his unbeaten 18 from 33 balls, Rutherford was more dominant and disdainfully hooked Moriah when he pounded in a short ball and the ball speed to boundary over a fast, if slightly uneven outfield.
With three to win, Rutherford nonchalantly deposited off-spinner Jaydeo Mana for six the finish the contest in emphatic fashion.
With a win and loss each, Georgetown face East Bank in their final round game on Friday, while East Coast face-off with West Demarara at Everest.
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