The Leewards Islands female cricket team, suffered a heartbreaking loss on Friday 12th May, at Warner Park, versus the Guyana female team.
Batting first, Guyana lost early wickets and appeared in some trouble, but good knocks from Gajnabi and Shultz, eventually got them to a competitive 167 for 9.
Leewards in response, also lost early wickets and the proverbial fat lady seemed to hovering by the Park’s gate, when main batter, Divya Saxena went for just four runs.
Enter Amanda Edwards and she proceeded to play a superb, shot filled, hand of 74 runs which almost took her team home, before she was brilliantly stumped by Windies keeper, Shemaine Campbell.
She was ably assisted by Windies under 19 player, Jahzara Claxton, who joined her in an impressive partnership of 84 runs.
The home team then needed 16 from 2 overs.
With the last ball being bowled, they required all of four runs.
Davanna Claxton struck the ball towards long on and the batters hustled home for two and with a slight misfield, made a mad dash for a third run, but the bowler grabbing the ball, refused to throw, but instead, ran up and removed the bails.
The Leewards fell short by just one run, in the heart-stuttering contest!
Summarized scores: Guyana 167 for 9: Shakibi Gajnabi 49; Kaysia Shultz 25
Tonya Martin 4 for 36; Claxton, Clarke, Edwards and Liburd 1 wicket each
Leewards 166 for 9: Amanda Edwards 74; Jahzara Claxton 23; Clarke 13; Mc Koy 13
Shineta Grimmond 3 for 26; Gajnabi and Millington 2 wickets each
Guyana won by 1 run
In other Matches played on that day:
Barbados v Jamaica
Barbados 318 for 8: Kyshona Knight 144; Trishan Holder 36; Hayley Matthews 31
Waisome 3 for 65; Campbell 2 for 39
Jamaica 113 for 9: Chedean Nation 32; Natasha Mc clean 27
Keila Elliot 4 for 19; Connell and Williams 2 wickets each
Barbados won by 205 runs
Trinbago v Windwards
Windwards 150 all out: Afy Fletcher 50; Quiana Joseph 29
Karishma Ramharack 3 for 24; Shalini Samaroo 2 for 24
Trinbago 152 for 8: Reniece Boyce 53; Shalini Samaroo 24; Karishma Ramharack 23*
Quiana Joseph 6 for 20; Afy Fletcher 2 for 41
Trinbago won by 2 wickets