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May 11, 2015 Sports
By Sean Devers
In sultry conditions at the Everest ground, a GCC team which included Test players Ramnaresh Sarwan, Leon Johnson and Guyana Franchise player Raymond Reifer, defeated GYO by 82 runs on Saturday in the latest round of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Carib Beer t20 first division cricket competition.
GCC won the toss and elected to bat on a flat track and parched outfield and led by an excellently paced innings of 67 from 48 balls by Vishaul Singh, who batted from start to finish, 27 from Johnson, 24 from Sarwan and an unbeaten 24 from National U-19 player Renaldo Mohamed, reached 182-4 when their 20 overs expired.
GYO were bowled out for 100 in the penultimate over as lower order batsmen Garfield De Roach (22) and Brian Sukhram (21) were the only ones to reach 15 for the Woolford Avenue team. Left-arm spinner Devon Lord (3-18) and Johnson (2-8) were the most successful bowlers for the Bourda side.
After Robin Bacchus was run out for 12, for the second game in a row, in the third over with the score on 26, Singh and Sarwan put together 46 for the second wicket with attractive stroke-play under blue skies, urged on by a handful of raucous spectators, who sounded like a capacity crowd.
Sarwan got going with an expansive square drive for four off Baskar Yadram before the former West Indies Captain deposited Yadram for consecutive fours in his next over while Singh, not much taller than the stumps, used his feet nicely to the GYO spinners as he played the supporting role to Sarwan.
Sarwan, who turns 35 next month, has played 87 Test matches but none since June 2011, showed glimpses of his class yesterday although a lack of fitness seemed his biggest set-back.
The elegant right-hander, in only his third match in Guyana in over two years and his fourth overall in that time after playing in Florida in a benefit game for Lawrence Rowe, gave himself room and unleashed his favorite cut shot off pacer De Roach, and the ball rocketed into boundary after leather kissed willow.
Singh chipped into the spinners with nonchalant ease and whipped them through mid-wicket before an inside out drive over cover went one bounce into the boundary. Left-arm spinner Trevon France had Sarwan missed stumped in his first over before trapping him LBW two balls later with the score on 72-2. Sarwan hit four fours and faced 21 balls in his 24.
Leon Johnson (27) played some audacious shots before he was stumped off of Mark Hamilton to leave GCC on 113-3, while Reifer (2) hit a return catch to Chris Deonarine nine runs later.
Mohamed and Singh, who top edged a hook at a well directed bouncer from DeRoach over the Keeper for four, put together 60 in the last 26 balls. Singh reached the boundary seven times while Mohamed unbeaten 24 took just 14 balls and was decorated with two fours.
When GYO responded Joshua Wade removed Yadram (2) at 5-1 before Alex Romalo, who pulled Wade for a pugnacious four, was bowled by Lord for 10 at 26-3 and when Deonarine (13) fell to left-arm pacer Reifer at 30-3, Lord and Johnson went to work despite some attacking shots from DeRoach and Sukhram.
Meanwhile, the GYO, UG game set for yesterday at Everest was washed out without a ball being bowled.
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