Hartford's
Riverside does it again.
For
the second year in a row, Hartford's Riverside Cricket Club
emerged victorious in the Cricket Hall of Fame's annual Six-a-Side
tournament held at Keney Park over the Labor day weekend.
A regular participant in the tournament, Riverside led by
some big hitting from right-hand batsman Everton Nelson, swept
aside all its opponents powering its way to victory without
losing a match.
Riverside amassed the highest aggregate in the tournament,
475, and also had the highest total in a match, 98 runs. Nelson,
who was easily the AMan of the Tournament,@ scored 164 runs,
over the two-day tournament, his highest score being 53 in
five overs against Collins, a team out of Stamford, Connecticut.
Of the nine teams registered for the tournament, only five
showed up for the start of play on the first day. This caused
the tournament to get off to a late start as the organizers
had to rework the format. However, as if by design, the round-robin
format boiled down to the two strongest teams, Riverside and
Primrose, coming together in the final and decisive match.
After winning the toss, Primrose sent Riverside in to bat
and were rewarded in the very first over with the wicket of
S. Hussain, who went bowled by C. Edwards for a duck. However,
Tony Kallicharran and Nelson took the score to 43 before Nelson
departed for 16 runs. S. Rishi, the next batsman in, continued
the hitting spree and when the overs ran out, Riverside had
posted the respectable score of 71 runs. Kallicharran with
32 runs was the top scorer.
Primrose made a gallant effort at the start of their innings
giving the impression that they may get the required runs,
but after V. Fyyfe was run out for 11 runs, it seemed to have
taken the fight out of the team and when the overs ran out
Primrose had only managed to score 43 runs.
At
the presentation which followed the end of the competition,
all the teams stated that they had enjoyed the tournament
and expressed the desire that they will be back next year.
However, Cricket Hall of Fame's director, Michael Chambers,
while thanking the teams for taking part, hinted that because
of the poor support of the other teams, this year's tournament
could possibly be the last one. Other teams that took part
in the tournament were Caribbean out of New York and Groton/New
London.
The Cricket Hall of Fame wishes to thank its sponsors Brian
A. Allardyce, David Fothergill, Caroll Walker, Robert Dickson,
Sefton Wells, Junior Booth, Ruth M. Ticker, Gloria Campbell,
Elfreda Walters, Elizabeth Guthrie, Sherree D. Sutton, Jessica
A. Julien, Hopeton Campbell, Kenneth Wallace, Eddie Gray,
Rohan Long, Deputy Mayor Veronica Airey-Wilson, Terry W. Long,
Joshua Guthrie and Errol Archer, for their generous donations.
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