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Dec 19, 2015 Sports
By Sean Devers
A 103-run partnership between stylish right-hander Raymond Perez and
pugnacious left-handed all-rounder Sherfane Rutherford lifted Demerara to a 107-run victory against the Trinidad &Tobago Academy yesterday at Wales in the visitors’ final match of an eight-day trip to Guyana.
Perez, who stroked a confident 81 with six fours and a six and Rutherford who cleared the boundary seven times and reached it once, were the dominant forces as they lifted the home team to 259 all out in the 49th over before dismissing the Trinis for 152 in 31 overs.
Clevon Kalawan top-scored with an aggressive 84 after taking his time initially, while the consistent Simmons chipped in with 25 but the tourists, who beat Berbice at Albion on Thursday in their only win in four matches, were no match for Chase Academy’s national U-19 left-arm spinner Ashmead Nedd, who captured 3-26. Ronaldo Ali- Mohamed (2-15) and Rutherford (2-27) also bowled well for the Travis Persaud Demerara unit.
Kalawan dominated a 66-run seventh wicket stand with ‘silent partner’ Stephon Katwaroo who managed to survive despite his contribution being just a single.
Earlier, Perez came to the crease after the third ball of the match when Demerara, asked to bat on a ‘slow turner’ and fast outfield, lost Renaldo Renee bowled by Kalawan without a run on the board, in the contest which was reduced to a 45-over affair due to overnight rain.
But the big, strong Kalawan struck again when he trapped Joshua Persaud (5) LBW at 22-2 before left-arm spinner Bryan Boodram removed Bashkar Yadram, who got off the mark with a boundary off Kalawan but did not add to those runs and at 44-3, a keen contest was anticipated from another disappointing turn out at a time when students are on their Christmas vacation.
But Perez, who started cautiously, and the powerful Rutherford had other plans as they dominated the bowling in steaming heat.
Rutherford dumped Simmons onto the roof of the Wales Community Centre to take him into the 30s, while the slightly more subdued Perez favoured the drives through cover as the partnership flourished.
The pair demonstrated good shot selection and excellent running but did not miss out on putting away the bad balls.
Rutherford clobbered Boodram for a couple of sixes before bringing up the 100 with another huge six off Iqwe Craig before a magnificent back-foot punch, raced to the cover boundary to bring up his fifty from just 26 balls with five sixes and two fours.
Rutherford from the East Coast of Demerara celebrated the land mark with a scintillating pull off Boodram which cleared the boundary with ease.
Perez, content to play the supporting role in the partnership unleashed a thunderous lofted drive off Emilio Gopaul for six to move to 47 and soon brought up his 50 from 86 balls aided by five fours and six.
Rutherford was taken on the boundary going after pacer Shaaron Lewis at 147-4 to make way for the Skipper to join the well set Perez. Travis Persaud whipped Kalawan neatly past mid-on for four while Perez grew in confident the longer he batted.
With the fifth wicket stand on 49 and Persaud on 18, the West Bank Demerara right-hander played too late to an arm-ball from Simmons and was bowled and some quick wickets by Gopaul inclusive of Perez, who was stumped, preventing Demerara from reaching 300, a total which looked very likely when Perez and Rutherford were at the crease.
Gopaul finished with 4-39 and got support from Simmons (2-52) and Kalawan (2-55).
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