Malteenoes faces Rose Hall in second semifinal
By Calvin Roberts
Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) and Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar will square off in the second semifinal of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/ Carib Beer/Pepsi-sponsored Twenty20 first division cricket competition at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground, today.
The Steven Jacobs-led MSC side will be looking to pull out all stops to turn back the challenge of the Esaun Crandon-led Berbice-based side. To this effect, he will be hoping that his front line batsmen bat responsibly and post a huge total so that his bowlers can have a go at the Rose Hall Town batsmen.
The Thomas Lands-based MSC batting will be hinging on Jacobs, who recently was a part of the West Indies under-19 team as the vice captain in the Youth World Cup in Malaysia, Shemroy Barrington who can tear apart any attack on his day, and Danny Narayan who was in fine form in the Georgetown Cricket Association first division final against GNIC last weekend. Add the inaugural Guyana/Stanford 20/20 stars in Orin Forde and Dion Ferrier along with the veteran Neil Barry, who showed the younger members how to counter attack spin bowling in their semifinal encounter against East Coast; add former national wicket keeper Kenneth Wong and batting all rounder Randy Lindore to the fray and Crandon and his men will certainly have a huge task on their hands.
