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Apr 09, 2021 Sports
By Sean Devers
Kaieteur News – The touring New York Tri State U-15 team will conclude their two-week trip to Guyana today, the final day of their two-day Basil Butcher Memorial game against a Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Executives X1 at the MYO ground.
At stumps on the opening day yesterday, in their first Red ball match of the tour, the visitors were 78-3 after bowling out the GCA side for 102. Rayad Latif top scored with 27 (5×4) but no other player passed 12 as Utkarsh Srivastava captured 6-23 while Anirudh Bolisetty took 4-34.
When play started 90 minutes late due to overnight and early morning rain, the GCA side batted in overcast conditions and quickly lost Deo Dindyal for a duck when he was caught behind off Bolisetty with a single on the board before Bolisetty trapped Johnathan van Lang for 10 at 15-2 after he reached the boundary twice.
Kishan Silas (10) became Srivastava’s first victim at 42-3 before he bowled Latif at 63-4 but even though three other batsmen reached double figures, none went on to contribute a significant score as Srivastava combined with Bolisetty to orchestrate the City Side’s demise as the last seven wickets tumbled for 24 runs.
When the Americans began their reply they lost Nikhil Mudaliar (6), Srivastava (23) and Bolisetty who hammered three fours and two sixes in 28 while Tanish Dongre was unbeaten on 13. Today is the final day before the visitors depart for the USA on Sunday.
Before the start of the game President of the GCA former Guyana player Neil Barry told the youngsters that there was nothing that could be done about the adverse weather or covid-19 and wished a good game.
Barry give the lads a brief history of the late Basil Butcher, a former Guyana and West Indies batsman from Port Mourant, Berbice who averaged 43.11 from 44 Tests with seven centuries including a double against England. Three of his hundreds were scored against Australia while he made two each against India and England.
Barry added that Butcher, who was born on September 3, 1933 and died in Florida USA on December 16, 2019at the age of 86, became a Coach and Administrator when moved to Linden where he played Case Cup first division cricket for Mackenzie Sports Club.
Butcher scored 39 centuries from 169 First-Class games in his average was 49.90. An occasional leg spinner, Butcher took five Test wickets with all of them coming when he captured 5-34 against England at Port-of-Spain in 1967-68.
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