{"id":26547,"date":"2025-02-09T03:41:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T03:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26547"},"modified":"2025-02-09T03:41:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T03:41:46","slug":"demerara-under-15-defeats-east-coast-u-17-by-48-runs-in-practice-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/demerara-under-15-defeats-east-coast-u-17-by-48-runs-in-practice-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Demerara Under-15 Defeats East Coast U-17 by 48 Runs in Practice Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>January 23, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Demerara Under-15 delivered a dominant performance in a practice match against the East Coast Cricket Board Under-17, winning by 48 runs at the LBI Ground over the weekend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victory served as a confidence booster for Demerara as they continue their preparations for the upcoming Guyana Cricket Board Under-15 Inter-County Tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match, initially scheduled for 50 overs, was shortened to 40 overs per side due to overnight rainfall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Demerara, batting first, posted a total of 152-8. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opener Lomar Seecharran top-scored with 29 runs, while Makai Dowlin (23), Joshua Bollers (22), and Vinesh Kalpoo (20) all made valuable contributions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shahid Ramzan added a quickfire 15 late in the innings to bolster the team\u2019s total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, East Coast Under-17 started their chase with optimism but were quickly reduced to 104 all out in just 23.4 overs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Demerara&#8217;s fast bowler and vice-captain, Patrice Fraser, set the tone early, taking three wickets in his first over, including a triple-wicket maiden that left East Coast on the back foot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite some resistance from Yannick Newton (26) and Arun Gainda (20), the introduction of off-spinner Shahid Ramzan proved decisive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ramzan delivered two triple-wicket maidens and finished with excellent figures of 4-16 from five overs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fraser wrapped up the East Coast innings with 3-15 from four overs, sealing the 48-run victory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>East Coast&#8217;s bowlers, Narindra Isurdeen (2-10) and Rishi Seodat (2-12), showed promise, but their efforts were not enough to defend their side\u2019s modest total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Demerara\u2019s all-round performance positions them well as they prepare for their next fixture on Sunday, January 26, at the same venue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 23, 2025 Demerara Under-15 delivered a dominant performance in a practice match against the East Coast Cricket Board Under-17, winning by 48 runs at the LBI Ground over the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26547","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\/26547","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=26547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26548,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26547\/revisions\/26548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}