Police Sports Club (PSC) kept its semi final hopes alive by beating Transport Sports Club (TSC) by 86 runs last weekend in the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)Noble House Seafoods-sponsored second division two day competition.
At the Gandhi Youth Organzation ground, PSC, batting first, scored 182 in 45 overs. Sheldon Agard scored 26, and Eric Angel 24.
Off-spinner Azim Azeez took 3-38 and Jonothan Alphonso 2-16.
TSC, only managed to gain first innings points. They responded with188/9 declared in 39 overs to secure a lead of six runs. Stephon Sampson scored 32, Azeez 30, and Sunil Singh 27. Bowling for the lawmen Sheldon Agard took 3-10 and Kevin Leitch 2-36.
Police fought their way back into ascendancy by scoring 231/8 declared in 56 overs. Angel scored 35, Stephen Blacks 33, Fitzroy Culley and Leitch both scored 31, while Troy Benn made 30. Bowling for TSC, Oslyn Batson took 3-33, Keon Morris 2-19, and Azeez 2-59.
Chasing 226 for victory which would have seen them advancing from Zone A with just over an hour of play remaining, Transport fell for 139 in a mere 19.1 overs. Devaughn Nandan hit some lusty blows in 39, while Charwayne McPherson scored 31. Leitch grabbed 5-37 to bowl his side to victory while Culley supported with 3-21.
In the other Zone A match played last weekend, the Vikings went down to Third Class. Only six players were present for the start of Third Class’ fourth innings chase.
Played at the Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) ground, Vikings, opting to bat first, were bundled out for 78 in only 17 overs with Ravi Persaud and Vickash Dahloo both contributing 23.
Third Class’ Trevor Hussein snapped up 5-35 and seamer Alvin Castello 4-38.
Third Class responded with 203 all out in 44.3 overs with Andre O’Neal smashing 123 on the small ground to give his side a lead of 125. Persaud claimed 4-43 for the Vikings, who in their second innings made 146 all out in 31.5 overs. Persaud hit the top score of 54. Hussein took his match tally to 10 wickets, claiming 5-26 in the second innings, while Lenny Pancham took 3-62.
Third Class needed to score 22 runs to win the match, but with only six men prepared to take the field Third Class was immediately awarded victory.
The Vikings are likely to face a harsh sanction from the GCA, who promised to be strict with teams who do not have at least the required seven players to start a match, and had already officially warned the Vikings.
