National Secondary Schools Cricket Dindyal shines for Diamond as E/Bank zone commences Saints, RISS advance in GT Zone

Oct 20, 2016, Sports, http://www.kaieteurnewsonline....-advance-in-gt-zone/

By Sean Devers
The overs in two matches yesterday in the GCB/MOE National Secondary School’s 30-over competition had to be reduced in ideal conditions as Mavendra Dindyal starred in the East Bank zone.
St Stanislaus College and Richard Ishmael Secondary School (RISS) advanced to the next round of the City zone.
The East Bank zone game at Everest was reduced to 20 overs since the school game could not start until Guyana’s preparations for next month’s First-Class tournament had concluded. The DCC’s encounter was reduced to 25 overs due to the late arrival of the match balls.
At Everest on Tuesday, 12-year-old Dindyal played liked a matured lad and executed several exquisite strokes on a sun-kissed day, hitting 11 fours. He got support from Akeem Hendricks, who stroked four fours and a six in 44 to lead Diamond Secondary to 197-3 in 20 overs and a 125-run win.
Shoaib Roop had 2-22 for Covent Garden Secondary, who fell for 72 all out in 16.3 overs with Roop reaching the boundary thrice and clearing it once in his 24. Dindyal captured 5-4 while Brandon Teixeira (2-7) and Phillip Mcturk (2-17) supported the extremely talented Dindyal as the East Bank Zone got underway.
Yesterday at Everest also in the East Bank zone, Friendship Secondary destroyed Xenon Academy by 81 runs after reaching 138-9 from 20 overs in reply to Xenon’s 57.
Jamal Scott scored 38 with six fours, while Orlando Ghisiawan contributed 24 with three fours for Friendship as Leonard Thomas (3-1) did the bulk of the damage. Leonard Thomas (14) offered token resistance as Orlando Ghisiawan (4-8) Jamal Scott (2-9) supported with the ball.
In the GT zone yesterday, Saints hammered Brickdam Secondary by 96 runs at DCC where the match was delayed due the absence of balls.
Saints, led by 53 with three fours and a six by Joshua Bankey, got to 185-9 when their 25 overs expired but Brickdam were never in the run chase as they batted out all of their allotted overs to crawl to 89-8, with only Muivivasteh Ferreira (11) and Daren Elias (10) reaching double figures.
Daniel Persaud took 3-2 for Saints who had been given a firm 44-run foundation from openers Shemar Ryan (23) and Skipper Kennard Moonsammy (10) before Bankey and Rohan Sukhandan (20) consolidated the position with a 79-run fourth wicket stand. Veraj Persaud made 21 as Elias (2-25) and Shane Sukraj (2-10) bowled well in a losing cause.
In the other game at Bourda, RISS crushed Kingston by 54 runs although Kingston included two players from St George’s Secondary in their team.
RISS were bowled out for 127 in 24.1 overs with Juspice Jones (18), Brandon Ramnarine (17) and Rivaldo Phillips and Tariq Hendricks, with 11 each, got into double figures as 40 wides top scored for RISS. Kingston could only manage 73 from 17.2 overs.
Pacer Jonathon St Hill had 3-43, while Meshack Sofflieigh, one of the St George’s students, followed up his 4-4 on Tuesday when Kingston beat School of the Nations, by taking 3-14 yesterday.
St Hill (18), Michael Adams (16) and Keon Williams (11) showed fight for Kingston but Jones with 5-16, was too good for them.
The knock-out competition continues today with Mae’s playing Queenstown High at Bourda, St Mary’s High facing-off with Christ Church Secondary at DCC, Saints Stanislaus battling St. John College at MYO and Charlestown High opposing Dolphin Secondary at GNIC.
Meanwhile, some complaints were made that bowlers were allowed to ‘pelt’ but umpires informed since there are no match referees they have to send their reports on the bowlers action to the GCB.
“This (bowlers operating with suspect actions) was happening since last year and the (Cricket) Board is not doing anything about it,” said the umpires.
Some of the teachers assigned to the various teams said that some of the students are not members of any club and playing cricket for them was a first with some of them being footballers.
The teachers added that no coaches were sent to schools to prepare the teams before the tournament commenced which is reason why most of the bowlers are ‘pelting’. Only Chase Academy has a certified coach. They are coached by for Guyana off-spinner Gavin Nedd.
“If we took off all the bowlers whose actions are not clean we would not have matches played. There are so many such bowlers playing here,” said the umpires at GCC yesterday.