{"id":18760,"date":"2024-04-16T18:52:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T18:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=18760"},"modified":"2024-04-16T18:52:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T18:52:37","slug":"demeraras-victory-in-gcb-inter-county-u-19-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/demeraras-victory-in-gcb-inter-county-u-19-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Demerara&#8217;s Victory in GCB Inter-County U-19 Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>By Tyriq Walters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Demerara maintained their undefeated streak in the Guyana Cricket Board&#8217;s Inter-County Super-50 tournament with a hard-fought victory over Essequibo at the Malteenoes Sports Club Ground. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a competitive encounter, Demerara batted first and posted a total of 214 runs in 45.4 overs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zachary Jodha led the scoring with 40 runs, supported by contributions from Johnathan Van-Lange (29), Sachin Balgobin (28), Alvin Mohabir (26), and Captain Mavindra Dindyal (17). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite their efforts, Demerara faced some tight bowling from Essequibo, with Golcharran Chulai (3\/34), Mahem Khan (2\/43), and Darwin Joseph (2\/41) being the pick of the bowlers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chasing 215 runs for victory, Essequibo&#8217;s batting lineup struggled to find momentum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skipper Thaddeus Lovell fought valiantly with a knock of 73 runs, but lacked support from his teammates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately, Essequibo fell short of the target, finishing 48 runs behind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Demerara&#8217;s bowling attack, led by Riyad Latiff and Krisna Singh with three wickets each, proved too strong for Essequibo&#8217;s batting order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the match, Demerara&#8217;s winning captain, Mavindra Dindyal, expressed satisfaction with his team&#8217;s performance under pressure and expressed the goal of bringing the championship home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Essequibo skipper Thaddeus Lovell acknowledged the team&#8217;s strong start but lamented the batting department&#8217;s inability to capitalize on the opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another U-19 match, Berbice secured a comprehensive 10-wicket victory over the GCB select 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The action in the Guyana Cricket Board Under-19 tournament continues with more exciting matches scheduled for Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tyriq Walters Demerara maintained their undefeated streak in the Guyana Cricket Board&#8217;s Inter-County Super-50 tournament with a hard-fought victory over Essequibo at the Malteenoes Sports Club Ground. In a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18762,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18760\/revisions\/18762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}