Jamaica: KC, Holmwood square off (12 May 1998)

May 12, 1998

KC, Holmwood square off

The Gleaner

CRICKET: The battle for the Spalding Cup opens at Melbourne Oval today with Sunlight Cup champions Kingston College taking on Headley Cup winners Holmwood Technical in what promises to be a closely contested affair.

Action in the one-innings match to decide the schoolboy champions of Jamaica is scheduled to start at 10.30.

Last year's final between KC and Garvey Maceo at Port Esquivel was abandoned after the first day's play when the umpires, after claiming that they were verbally abused by a few spectators, failed to show for the second day.

Winners of the Corporate Area Sunlight Cup competition after defeating Jonathan Grant by 193 runs in last week's final at Melbourne Oval, Kingston College, winners of the title in 1996 and boasting a nicely balanced team, appear favourites.

With a number of their players appearing in the Senior Cup competition, the KC aggregation is also well experienced, and with a batting lineup led by Kemar Duncan Sean Cousley, allrounder Andrew Richardson who scored 50 and took five wickets in the Sunlight Cup final, Brooks himself, and including Kerry Scott, Martin Isaacs, and Lincoln Granston, plus an attack headed by pacer Richardson and spinners Scott and Orville Clarke, the North Street brigade may well be too good for Holmwood. Holmwood, however, 21-run victors over many-time champions St. Elizabeth Technical in the Headley Cup final, are equally confident that they will return to Christiana as all-island champions.

Based on their performances to date, Holmwood, certainly in the batting department, lack the depth of KC. In captain and Jamaica representative Ricardo Powell and national youth representative Matthew Sinclair however, they possess two of the country's finest young batsmen, and with Dwayne Ewart in support, it could be a rough outing for KC's bowlers.

The Holmwood attack will be led by pacer Evon McEnnis, Powell, and Kevin Peart - the spin bowler who captured six wickets in the Headley Cup final at Alpart.

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