LOCAL CRICKET ROUND-UP
June 12th 2009

PowerGen, Clarke Road in ‘Red Hot Derby’

PowerGen Sports, who are virtually assured of the Eastern Credit Union Premier Division title, will be seeking to underline its superiority against arch-rivals FC Clarke Road in a ‘Red Hot Derby’ in the final round of competition on Saturday at Syne Village in Penal.

Winners in 2000 and 2006, PowerGen leads the ten-team standings with 159 points and could only be surpassed by the ‘Bank Boys’ from Wilson Road in Penal.

However, Clarke Road will have to score more than 400 runs and bowl out the opponents twice and also to restrict the “Electricity Boys’ to no bonus point.

Also holding a far outside chance is Queen’s Park who will come up against dethroned champions Ceramic Merry Boys Sports at the St Mary’s College grounds in St Clair.

The ‘Parkites’ will be without their inspirational captain Justin Guillen who left earlier this week to take up a contract with Hartley Cricket Club in Kent, England.

Queen’s Park will have to score a big victory against Merry Boys and hope that the Tribunal rule in their favour in the unplayed Round Three fixture against Alescon Comets.

But with the prize for second place team standing at $70,000 both sides will be eyeing an outright win.

In the North and South Championship Divisions, UTT and Rahamuts Evergreen are assured of the titles respectively and will be promoted to the Premiership in 2010.

Point standings after nine rounds.

Premiership Division

PowerGen 159 pts , Clarke Road 129, Merry Boys 121, Queen⢀s Park 117, Central Sports 107, Wanderers 106, Comets 87, Preysal 84, Munroe Road 64 (demoted), Moosai’s 56 (demoted).

North Championship

UTT 174 pts, Defence Force 138, Spoilers 136, Queen’s Park 131, Curepe 130, Aranguez 127, Bamboo 108, Barataria 106, Invaders 96, Police 81, Sweet Revenge 73.

South Championship

Evergreen 1175, Woodland 143, Victoria 124, Calcutta 122, Caldrac 122, Caroni 114, Endeavour 103, Diamond 103, Valiants 98, Couva 79, Milton 52.

Premier Division Prize Structure

Winner - $120,000, Runner-up - $70,000, Third Place - $35,000, 4th Place -$25,000, 5th Place - $15,000, 6th Place - $10,000.

‘Cricket Fiesta’ on Labour Day at Petrotrin

The Petroleum Company of T&T Limited will stage a ‘Cricket Fiesta’ at Guaracara Park in Pointe-a-Pierre on June 19 (Labour Day).

The ‘Cricket Fiesta’ will comprise matches among four top teams including FC Clarke Road United, Queen’s Park Cricket Club, PowerGen Penal Cricket Club and a Petrotrin All Star team.

Local Twenty20 champions, PowerGen and Queen’s Park will be the two seeded teams and there will be a draw on Monday to determine their respective opponents.

The ‘Cricket Fiesta’ signals the end of Petrotrin’s interdepartmental cricket season and the public will be able to see Petrotrin’s All Star team, which will include current and former national players, compete against the most prestigious clubs in T&T.

The final will take place under lights starting at 7 pm.

Prize Structure:

• Appearance Fee - $15,000
• Winner $10,000
• Runner-up $5,000
• Best Batsmtsman $1,000
• Best Bowler $1,000
• Best Wicketkeeper $1,000
• Best Fieldsman $1,000.

Khan scores hundred in EPL T20

Impressive T&T allrounder Imran Khan smashed an even hundred for Millennium Stars against Rivals in the inaugural EPL T20 competition now taking place at the Adesh Samaroo Recreation ground in Endeavour.

The EPL T20 competition started in June and the final is carded for 11th July. The major sponsors are — The Mayor of Chaguanas, Egypt Sports Bar and Graphix Advantage .

Twenty-one games played so far with two batsmen scoring hundreds Khan and Anthony Lyght 104 playing for Lexicon agaainst Super Boys United) and one bowler getting six wickets (Vishal Lochan 3.5-0-18-6 for Harmony Hall Congress against Rivals).

The winner will collect $10,000.00.

Former West Indies captain Brian Lara have been registered to play with Lexicon and Law No 5, while former West Indies opening batsman Gordon Greenidge will make an appearance for NSL on June 19.

Game One

NSL 138 FOR 8( Ronald Heera 33, Kris Ramdathh 23, Narvin Latchman 3-18, D Siewrag 2-26) v Humming Bird 91 (Narvin Latchman 23, R Ramkhelwan 26, Anton Bennett 2-11, Reynold Boodoosingh 2-18, Gary Mathurin 2-13).

GAME TWO

Rivals 102 (K. Dwarika 38, V Lochan 6-18) v Harmony Hall 104-6 (G Kisto 33 not out, V Jaggasar 2-20)

GAME THREE

Balmain Sports 136 - 9 (Miguel Harriman 51, M Jaglal 5-13, S Hosein 2-19) v John Peter Road 81 (G Balram 17, Jothan Bisnath 3-9, Shazan Babwah 3-13).

GAME FOUR

Chesters 147 ( K Maharaj 47, I Basdeo 4-29, H Balgobin 2-18) v United Sports 108 (H Balgobin 20, P Rampersad 21, Rishi Samaroo 21, A George 2-22).

GAME FIVE

Rebels 159/5 (Fazil Baksh 48, Adesh Samaroo 21 not out, Vinod Ramphalie 30, Akiel Remy 2-35) v 120 (Akiel Remy 36, Akiel Mohammed 3-7, Fazil Baksh 1-0, Clint Nabbie 2-13).

GAME SIX

Grant Warriors 141-5 (Shivon Sookhai 61 not out, K Kassie 3-21) v Black Caps 127-7 (H Ishak 36, Deo Roopnarine 22, Amir Khan 3-15).

Win, Lose or Draw in minor upset

Win, Lose or Draw created a minor upset in the Media 21/Cassat Industries- sponsored Savannah Boys Windball League, when they defeated arch-rivals Stable Boys, by five wickets at the Aranguez Savannah last weekend.

Among the team securing victories were St Helena Sports, Mario’s Ah Cricket Side and Auto Village Dollar Touch.

Summarised Scores:

Ah Cricket Side 92-8 (Rishi Mannah 18 not out, Barry Martin 11, Rohit Samaroo 2-19) v BSCC 63 (Randy Seepersad 15, Navin Guyadeen 4-17, Raveen Persaud 2-6). Ah Cricket Side won by 29 runs.

St Helena Sports 84-6 (Shawn Davis 27, Wayne Singh 13, Riaz Mohammed 10, Victor Peters 2-21) v Drifters 84-9 (Earl Espinoza 21, Riad Khan 3-12, Shawn Davis 2-13). St Helena won by losing fewer wickets.

Dollar Touch 144-6 (Riaff Ali 50, Rohan Parsan 27, Riad Ali 14, John Bastaldo 2-21) v United Progressors 89-8 (Rasheed Ali 21, Jazbour Findlay 15, Leon Bastaldo 11, Rajeev Rajnath 3-26, Rajesh Boochan 2-25, Rishard Ali 2-24). Dollar Touch won by 55 runs.

Savannah Boys 63 (Rajesh Paras 4-13, Sylvon Seepersad 2-12) v Raiders 68-8 (Rajesh Paras 13, Lester David 11, Devindra Kangal 4-8). Raiders won by 2 wkts.

D A Team 83 (Nicholas Ramlackan 14, Brian Mahabir 11, Robert Brathwaite 2-15, Rishi Peheman 2-23, Anthony Reece 2-9) v Tunapuna Savannah Boys 87-6 (Keith Mahase 27, Jimmy Parmasar 19 not out, Robert Brathwaite 10, Jason Sookram 2-15). Tunapuna won by 4 wkts.

Stable Boys 18 (Kevon Ramdhanie 10, Garvin Rampersad 3-4, Umesh Ramdeen 3-9, Ramesh Ramdeen 2-2) v Win, Lose or Draw 19-5 (Umesh Ramdeen 9 not out, Kevon Ramdhanie 3-10, Kevon Noreiga 2-7). Win, Lose or Draw won by 5 wkts.