Richmond Hill Liberty Cricket Club suffered a heavy 107 runs defeat at the hands of Everest/ACS when the two clubs met at the Baisley Cage last Sunday. Batting first E/ACS posted 245 all out with Jeetengra Sookdeo top scoring with 85. In reply RHLCC was bundled out for 136.
Captain, Trinson Carmichael won the toss and elected to have his RHLCC side field first. His team went wicketless into the 15th over before separating the opening pair with the score on 75. Four more wickets followed before the 2nd water break when E/ACS was kept to 155.
Sookdeo was the mainstay of the E/ACS inning coming in at number four. Capitalizing on a slew of miss chances by RHLCC, Sookdeo established his dominance in the last 10 overs. On the back of his inning E/ACS closed off their inning at 9 runs per over after the 30th over break. Hitting four 4’s and nine 6’s Sookdeo raced to 85 before a fieldsman held on to a chance.
Opener Telston Johnson was the next highest scorer with 49 with Amarnauth Persaud and Karan Ganesh scoring into the 20’s. Bowling for #TheBlueNation Inzy Khan and Trinson Carmichael picked up 2 wickets each while Leon Mohabir, Dominique Rikhi, Joel Boodhoo, Altaaf Habibulla and Jamiel Jackman picked up a wicket each.
Needing to score at just over a getable six runs an over, given the location of the match, RHLCC lost Rikhi in the first over. Chris VanTull took the assault to the E/ACS opening bowlers in a counter attack. He blasted four fours and three sixes to race RHLCC to 62 in the 9th over before he edged one to slip for 43. By that time RHLCC had lost number three Nadesh Basdeo and would lose Carmichael shortly after to be restricted to 63 for four.
Trevor Henry and Habibulla consolidated by moving the score along to 90 before Henry was trapped leg before wicket. Habibulla fought to hold things together with a gutsy 30 but found little support from the bottom order. Terrence Madramootoo, who formally played for Liberty Sports Club, spearheaded the lower order collapse with four wickets for 22 runs and wrapping up the RHLCC inning at 136.
Deveshwari Prashad and Chanderpaul Rampersaud picked up 2 wickets each along with Trevor Walk who picked up one.
The win for E/ACS leaves the 2016 EACA runners up as the only undefeated team in the EACA competition going into the 7th round of play of the 10 round 40-over competition.
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