Malteenoes Sports Club and Bel Air Rubis emerged victorious last weekend when the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) continued its Georgetown City Mayor and Friends Under-17, 100-over competition.
At the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) on Sunday, the home suffered a narrow one-wicket defeat at the hands of Malteenoes, while the day before Bel Air Rubis emerged with a 66-run win over Malteenoes.
The other game on the weekend was a no-result between home side GCC and Demerara Cricket Club (DCC), with rain curtailing the contest.
Aruna Gainda struck the highest individual score of the weekend- a solid 69 and then picked up two wickets- for Bel Air Rubis, while opener Nathaniel Ramkhelwan made 57 in Malteenoes’ win over GCC.
Demerara Under-17 wicketkeeper/batsman Nathan Bishop was unbeaten on 48 for DCC against GCC when rain brought a premature end to the game, while Omarian Cummings struck a top score of 43 for GCC against Malteenoes.
On the bowling side, off-spin pair Joshua Budhram and Deshawn Ramnauth picked up 5-42 and 4-35 respectively for Malteenoes against GCC. In the same game, national Under-15 player Shahid Ramzan picked up 3-7 and made 25 in a losing cause for GCC.
Below are the summarised scores from the games played:
At GCC: Rain forced a no-result between GCC and DCC
SUMMARY: DCC 130-3 from 21 overs (Nathan Bishop 48*, Makai Dowlin 23, Kishawn Silas 19; Bradley DaSilva 2-27, Jooziah Singh 1-25) vs GCC
At Malteenoes: Bel Air Rubis defeated Malteenoes by 66 runs
SUMMARY: Bel Air Rubis 154 all out from 37.4 overs (Arun Gainda 69, Antonio Chan 18, Ashton Collins 17; Kyle Gibson 2-18, Akeem Persaud 2-18, Deshawn Ramnauth 2-25) vs Malteenoes 87 all out from 25.5 overs (Akeem Persaud 21; Arun Gainda 2-6, Munesh Outar 2-15, Narindra Isurdeen 2-15, Shaeed Seymour 2-24)
At GCC: Malteenoes defeated GCC by one wicket
SUMMARY: GCC 180 all out from 41.2 overs (Omarian Cummings 43, Shahid Ramzan 25, Trilok Nanan 25, Shane Shivbarran 23; Joshua Budhram 5-42, Deshawn Ramnauth 4-35) vs Malteenoes 181-9 (Nathaniel Ramkhelwan 57, Kyle Gibson 31; Shahid Ramzan 3-7, Ravaldo Pereira 2-12, Trilok Nanan 2-31, Nathaniel Sukhnanan 2-32)
The tournament will continue on Saturday (October 18) with Transport hosting GCC and Malteenoes at home to Everest. Both games will start at 09:00h.
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