Paragon Sports Club vs Barataria Ball Players
Scores: Paragon 61 and 61; Barataria Ball Players 285-8.
Barataria Ball Players defeated Paragon Sports Club by an innings and 163 runs in Round 5 of the North Zone Senior Division at Savannah Boys Ground (formerly Sweet Revenge), Queen’s Park Savannah.
Electing to field after winning the toss, Barataria needed just two bowlers to rout Paragon for 61 in 21.1 overs. Joey Samuel snapped up 5-18 while Derron Wilson took 5-37. Carter Mathison was the only batsman to offer any resistance with 27. No other batter scored in double figures.
Barataria, in their turn at the crease, piled up 285-8 with a top score of 82 from Carl Vialva. Vaughn Browne scored an even 50 while Joey Samuel followed up his five-for with a well played 42. Brent Lezama was Paragon’s best bowler, taking 3-75, Sheldon Homer-Bayley took 2-37, and Mathison 1-82.
Trailing by 224, Paragon never looked the part and were again bowled out for 61 runs with Mathison again the only double-digit scorer with 19. On this occasion, Barataria needed five bowlers with Vaughn Browne the pick of the lot, taking 3-15. Samuel and Wilson took 2 each and Vialva took one.
Police register another Innings victory
At Police Barracks, St. James: Police vs Santa Cruz
Scores: Santa Cruz 84 and 65-9; Police 255-4 declared.
Police are making it a habit of handing their opponents innings’ defeats. This time it was Santa Cruz that felt the long arm of the law, losing by an innings and 106 runs.
Santa Cruz won the toss and chose to bat, but that proved to be a bad decision as Police reduced them to 12-4 in 6.4 overs. Cleon Burnley and Seve Fraser shared in a 37-run partnership for the fifth wicket but once Burnley departed for 20 in the twenty-second over, the resistance ended and Fraser was the last man out for 37 with just 84 runs on the board. Renaldo Sammy was the best bowler for Police taking 4-12 while Dion Wells and Brian Christmas took two each.
In reply, Police lost Imran Hosein with the score on 22 and Brandon remedial for 38 when the score was 61 but Kerron Simmons joined Darius Besai in the middle and the pair added 112 runs for the third wicket. Simmons was pedestrian in comparison to his partner scoring 30 off 40 deliveries while Besai plundered 12 fours and 7 sixes in a top score of 130 from 100 balls. Besai eventually departed in the 31st, bowled by Aaron Rosales. Nicholas Jagmohan and Renaldo Sammy scored 15 and 11 respectively before the declaration came.
Rosales finished with figures of 3-38.
Santa Cruz in their second innings did not fare any better as they reached 65-9. Devon Sween played a lone hand with 46 as only two other batsmen got off the mark. Brian Christmas was virtually unplayable taking 5-29. Dion Wells bowled well in support snapping up 3-22.
Glenora win on first innings
At Glenora Grounds, QPS: Glenora vs Savannah Boys
Scores: Savannah Boys 169 and 92-4; Glenora 190
Glenora secured first innings points against Savannah Boys on their home ground at the Queen’s Park Savannah on the weekend.
Batting first after winning the toss, Savannah Boys posted 169 all out with a top score of 48 from Riaff Ali. Rickford Mohammed took 4-26 while Rupdeen Sookdeo 3-23 and Keon Mason 3-3, were the other wicket-takers. Darius Gopaul comes in for special mention, bowling four overs and not conceding a run.
Glenora’s batting was led by Keon Mason who scored 90 before Riaff Ali caught him off the bowling of Sunil Boochan. Boochan finished with figures of 3-33, Pradeem Ali took 2-20 and Anesh Sookoo took 2-27. Riaff Ali, Rishan Ali, and Roshan Sookoo took one each.
Savannah Boys, batting a second time, reached 92-4 when play was called.
Fatima College goes down to North Coast by 9 wickets
North Coast United travelled to Port of Spain for their encounter with Fatima College. North Coast shifted the game previously scheduled for the Grand Fond road facility in Maracas to the Queen’s Park Cricket Club ground, at the Queen’s Park Savannah.
Fatima won the toss and elected to bat. They were in early trouble at 19-1 losing Antonio Lochan for 8, lbw to Claude De Vignes. Only Isaiah Fernandes, who top-scored with 35 and Dylon Bryan not out 23 were any scores of note as they limped to 96 all out. Darrel Dennison 3-25 was the best bowler for North Coast, while Claude De Vignes (2-34) and Terrence James (2-13) helped wrap up the innings.
When North Coast batted, Ramon Diaz single-handedly achieved first innings points, top-scoring with 49 off 37 balls as North Coast got to 126 all out. Akiel Guerra chipped in with 17. Bowling for Fatima, Maleek Lewis bagged 5-22 and Khalel Alonzo took 3-33.
Batting a second time, the Fatima batters continued their poor form and were bowled out for a paltry 72, leaving North Coast just 42 to get for the outright win. Antonio Lochan was Fatima’s best batter with 30. Darrel Dennison grabbed 4-12 to end with figures of 7-37 in the match.
North Coast then made light work of the victory target, getting to 44-1 to seal the victory.
In Division 1 Matches:
Combine All Stars defeated Invincible on first innings.
Scores: Invincible 184 and 207; Combine All Stars 205-9
Miguel Mahabir 65, Jerome Simpson 65; Earnil Ryan 139. Ramesh Dhanraj 5-54
Aneil Sammy 4-48
Shannon Sports Club defeated St. Mary’s College by an innings 55 runs.
Scores: St. Mary’s 115 and 79; Shannon 249, Waylon George-Joyeau (113).
