By Ravendra Madholall
Pegasus beat Sunshine by 7 runs to win the 2024 Ontario Spherical-Arm Softball Cricket Affiliation (ORSCA)/Imran Ali Actual Property sponsored test-format trophy final Saturday in Mississauga.
A number of Guyanese cricketers produced some good performances to assist Pegasus dethrone Sunshine within the course of.
Sunshine was set 137 for victory from the allotted 120-overs, have been left at 129-8 when the overs expired.
Skipper Anil Mahadeo hit 50 from 19 balls to provide the chase nice impetus.
Scores within the match: Pegasus 95-8 (12-overs) and 96-7 (12); Sunshine 55-9 (12) and 129-8 (12).
Former Guyana youth participant Ricardo Peters made 22 and took two wickets for Pegasus whereas fellow Essequibian Patrick Rooplall scored 24 for Sunshine.
Sunshine had received the toss and elected to bowl. In Pegasus’ ultimate innings, Richie Shivrathan made 27 whereas ex-Guyana Beneath-19 ricketer Adrian Sukhwa hit 26.
The profitable staff acquired a trophy together with the runners-up facet and Most Helpful Participant Keon Sinclair.
Dillon Heyliger, who additionally featured for his start nation Guyana on the youth stage, was additionally on present representing the victorious facet. Heyliger not too long ago performed for Canada on the Worldwide Cricket Council T20 World Cup. In the meantime, President of the ORSCA Mitch Bacchus congratulated the winner and in addition thanked all 22 groups for his or her participation. Bacchus expressed his gratitude to Imran Ali for his continued help in sponsoring one other version.
He additional thanked the 2 umpires Sanjeev Ramnarine and Trevor Chakala whereas he shared comparable sentiments to Cricket Commentator Ravendra Madholall for his commentary.
