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May 22, 2016 Sports
By Sean Devers
Matthew Hardial stroked four boundaries in a 117-ball 56 before Joel Seitatram grabbed 4-24 to give Berbice
a 79-run win against Essequibo at Providence yesterday and a place in today’s final of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Hand-in-Hand 50-over under-19 final at the same venue.
Set a revived target of 146 to win from 40 overs on the Duckworth, Lewis & Stern system, Essequibo, replying to Berbice’s 146-9 from 46 overs crumbled from 42-1 to 67 all out in 19.4 overs as only Mark Williams (24) and Siddiq Mohamed (12) reaching double figures.
Six batsmen failed to score as Essequibo lost nine wickets for 25 runs as pacer Sylus Tyndell (3-10) and Asif Ali (3-9) supported Seiatram.
Nathan Persaud (5) was bowled by Tyndell who soon removed Williams to spark a dramatic collapse. Tyndell, who bowled with pace on a slow trace and sluggish outfield, bowled West Indies under-19 Vice-Captain Kemo Paul, who charged the bowler, missed an irresponsible swipe and was gone for a first ball duck.
The other bowlers took advantage of some atrocious shot selection by the Essequibians to send Berbice, one of the weakest teams assembled by their County selectors, into today’s final.
Earlier, Paul got rid of Adrian Sukwah (5), Sesnarine Sookhoo (2) to leave Berbice on 26-2 before Reyad Khan had Alex Algo (17) caught and bowled at 50-3 in the 15th over under overcast skies.
Hardial batted cautiously in his sensible innings and along with Brandon Prashad added 47 for the fourth
wicket, a partnership which was interrupted by rain at 122-5 in the 40th over. When play restarted the game was reduced to a 46 over affair.
Hardial, who reached his 50 with a sweetly timed back-foot punch past extra cover for his fourth boundary from his 109th ball off Siddiq Mohamed who soon induced Prashad (20) to loft a catch to long-on.
Despite being gifted 36 extras including 33 wides, Berbice who elected to bat in bright sunshine, lost six wickets for 27 runs as poor shot selection and a senseless approach to the situation caused the demise of most of the batsmen on both teams.
When Hardial was ninth dismissed, spectacularly caught by a diving Akenie Adams at mid-wicket off Mohamed at 141-9, Essequibo, with Algu, Williams, Paul and Adams in their line-up seemed well placed to join Demerara, who beat the National U-17s on Friday in today’s finale.
But that was not to be as Essequibo, set a revised target of 156 from 46 overs made a mess of the chase which was further revised to 146 from 40.
The lads from Guyana’s largest County must have been relived that only two men and a dog were in the stands to see the mindless performance on display and the pitch and weather conditions had little to do with their ability to bat out 20 overs.
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