GCB/MOE/ DMLAS School’s combined 50-overs cricket Sinclair, Benjamin leads Berbice to semi-final win Face E’bo Schools Combined in final at Bourda tomorrow

Mar 30, 2017 Sports

By Sean Devers
Well crafted innings from Junior Sinclair and Garfield Benjamin and a three-wicket haul from spinner Nigel Deodat led Combined Berbice Schools to a emphatic 90-run win against Georgetown/Mahaicony Schools Combined in the semi-finals of the GCB/MOC/DMLAS Combined 50-over tournament at Bourda yesterday to book a place in tomorrow’s final against Combined Essequibo Schools at Bourda.
The right-handed Sinclair stroked five fours and a six in his well compiled 75-ball 61. He added 50 for the first wicket in 11 overs with Alex Algoo, who hit two fours in his 20 and 55 with his cousin Garfield Benjamin, whose 46 lasted 92 balls and was decorated with two fours and a six as the Berbicians slipped from 147-2 in the 36th over to be all out for 184 off 45 overs after a late start caused a reduction of five overs.
Guyana U-17 Left-arm spinner Ashmead Nedd (3-22), and National youth spinners Pradesh Balkishan (3-22) and Dwayne Dick (2-35) did the damage for the GT/Mahaicony Combined, who fell for 94 in 33.2 overs as Deodat had 3-18 and left-arm spinner Kelvin Umroa, one of nine players in the Berbice side with National Youth cricket experience, did the damage with the ball.
Stefon Wilson, who made a 34-ball 31 with three boundaries and National U-17 left-hander Sachin Singh, who was far from his best form, in a scratchy 21 from 40 balls, shared in a 45-run second wicket stand after Alphious Bookie who touched one to the Keeper off Leon Swammy before he had scored at 3-1.
Pradesh Balkishan was the only other batsmen to reach double figures with a 60-ball 25 with two fours before he was run out at 86-9. But by then the home team were dead and only left to be buried as a succession of impetuous shot selection orchestrated the demise of most of the batsmen on a slow track and heavy outfield.
Earlier, in sunny conditions with a few fans watching from the dismantled Kenny Whishart stand, Algoo square drove Bookie for four and on-drove Singh for another boundary before Sinclair, another National youth player, drove Bookie down the ground and clipped him off his pads for six in an over which cost 12 runs.
Sinclair danced into 13-year-old leg-spinner Daniel Mootoo and on-drove him all along the ground to the Hand-in-Hand advertisement Banner hanging on the fence before Algoo was stumped as Mootoo, who looks a bright prospect, struck at 50-1.
Benjamin joined Sinclair and stroked Nedd for four before clobbering Dick over his head for six while Sinclair, arguably his team’s most accomplished batsman, flicked pacer Qumar Torrington delightfully behind square.
Sinclair was in full flow and hit Juspice Jones for a double to wide mid-wicket to reach his 50 from 62 balls and four fours and a six before celebrating by pulling Jones to the boundary.
Another solid stand was being built which was the hall mark of the Berbice innings but when it had reached 55, Sinclair’s top-edged pull went high into the air for the Keeper to hold the offering at 105-2 after the 100 had been posted in 23 overs.
The inform Kelvin Anderson (15) was being to settle but after facing 26 balls, he was caught and bowled by Nedd at 147-3 and when Seon Glasgow junior, the son of National Volleyball player Seon Glasgow who played first division cricket for Blairmount SC, was removed by Dick for nine at 150-4 the innings went into decline.
Gevon Shultz (7) was run out and Balkishan captured three wickets in five overs as the last six wickets tumbled for 28 runs.
When GT/Mahaicony began their chase they quickly lost Bookie, but Williams got going with a scoop pull for four off of Shultz and stroked Swammy for a couple of imperious boundaries before lofting Anderson over his head for four.
But once Wilson edged Umroa to slip where Glasgow held a stupendous catch at 48-2 and Singh threw his wicket away when he was taken off Umroa at long-on at 64-3, only Balkishan who hammered Glasgow for four to post the 50 in the 12th over and caressed Umroa down the ground for four, offered any resistance.
Dick (0) tried to hit the third ball he faced out of the ground and was caught in the deep against the breeze off Deodat, Tameshwar Permaul (2) was bowled by Anderson, Nedd (3) missed an irresponsible sweep at Deodat and was bowled and Nkosie Beaton was run out for a duck and it all over bar the shouting.

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