Jamaica: One-day battle at Kaiser (19 Jul 1998)

19 July 1998

One-day battle at Kaiser

The Jamaica Gleaner

The final of the Sandals all-island limited-over cricket competition takes place at Kaiser Sports Club, Discovery Bay, today with Kingston CC up against St. Elizabeth.

Action in the 50-over contest is scheduled to get under way at 10 a.m, and with Melbourne, winners for the first seven years, from 1990 to 1996, and beaten finalists last year, and St. Catherine CC, last year's champions, knocked out in the semi-finals, new champions will be crowned today.

The question is who will it be?

Will it be Kingston CC, who eliminated Melbourne and who have previously been to the final, or will it be St. Elizabeth who are contesting their first final after dismissing St. Catherine CC?

According to the fans of the Corporate Area, it should be Kingston CC - a team which boasts a formidable batting line-up and some good bowlers.

The Kingston batting includes the hard-hitting Raymond Ferguson whose attacking 74 buried Mel-bourne, national representative Mario Ventura, brother Valentino Ventura, captain Lloyd Black, and allrounders Terrence Corke, Nehemiah Perry who boasts a firstclass century, and Rohan Chambers.

The Kingston bowling is spearheaded by pacer Dwight Mais, medium-pacers Chambers and Corke, offspinner Perry, and leftarm spinners Matthew Fender and Ryan Cunningham who set up Melbourne's demise in the semi-final with five wickets for 25 runs.

The fans of St. Elizabeth, however, believe that their team will lift the trophy as they too have a national batsman in young Carl Wright, a former national pacer in Clive Banton, and especially some batsmen who love to hit the ball.

Apart from Wright, who, up to this stage, has scored three half-centuries in the competition - including a solid 58 against St. Catherine CC, the St. Elizabeth batting line-up includes Roger Roye, Wayne Billings, Kerron Baker, Krishana Edwards, Sheldon Gordon and Micton Wallace.

In the bowling department, captain Banton will be supported by the likes of Cassius Burton, Billings, Gordon, Baker, and Paul Patrick.

Source :: The Jamaica Gleaner (https://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/)