Sir Garfield Sobers Intentional Schools cricket tournament QC’s Persaud & Jaikaran share in record double century opening stand

Jul 13, 2019 Sports

After a no-result in their opening game and a victory in their next match in the 33rd annual Sir Garfield Sobers 40-over International Schools Cricket tournament, Queen’s College of Guyana remained unbeaten after three matches when destroyed Trinidad’s St Mary’s College by 10-wickets on Thursday in Barbados.

Double trouble! Mavindra Persaud (left) & Brandon Jaikarran became the first pair of openers from a Guyanese school to share in a double century opening stand.

The right handed Mavindra Persaud reached the boundary 12 from the 106 balls he faced in an unbeaten 105, while the left handed Brandon Jaikaran finished one short of his hundred from 117 balls decorated with eight fours as Queen’s College galloped to 227 without loss with 3.2 overs to spare relying to a challenging 226-4 in their allotted 40 overs at Gall Hill.
Batting first the Trinis were spearheaded by solid batting from Jahrel Nedd who made 60, Nicholas Ramlal who scored unbeaten 50, Andre Seetaram who contributed 48 and Gerard Chin with 30 as Navindra Persaud picked up 2-33 for Queen’s College.

Mavindra Persaud drives during his unbeaten century in B’dos on Thursday.

Persaud and Jaikaran flayed the hapless bowlers to all parts of the small ground with the first unbeaten double century partnership in the 2019 tournament and the first ever by a Guyanese school since Covent Garden, captained by Zaheer Safie, became the first school from Guyana to participate in this tournament in 1998.
At Windward: 360 Cricket Academy beat The Business School Guyana by seven wickets as the other Guyanese school in the tournament, slipped to their third defeat in as many matches.

Brandon Jaikarran was one short of a century when target was reached to give QC a 10-wicket win in Barbados on Thursday.

The Business School were bowled out for 141 in 37.2 overs despite Akeem Critchlow’s 55 and 41 from Tathesh Shivrattan. Hugh Sheriff had 3-18, Jed Collins took 2-17, Tyler Small captured 2-17 and Anay Baruah got 2-22 for 360 Cricket Academy who reached 142-3 in 29.1 overs.
360 Cricket Academy were spearheaded to victory by Lachlan Shaw (41), Ben Jones (37 not out), Hugh Sheriff (18 not out) and Lachlan Ball (18) as Tathesh Shivrattan took 2-30. (Sean Devers)

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