Not heard quite often (pretty rare, in fact), but there was a Chanderpaul duo out in the middle for Guyana Jaguars in the Cricket West Indies Super50 regional tournament, who led them to a comfortable 7-wicket victory over USA in the group match at Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Ground in Antigua.
A modest total of 144 set by USA was always going to be a daunting task to defend in a 44-overs a side match, which started late due to weather conditions.
US Open T20 tournament star, Jaskaran Malhotra showed his class as he played a lone hand of 80 valuable runs to his name in the overall total of 144. That the next best was 19 runs made by Xavier Marshall tells how USA batsmen struggled on a tricky wicket against an impressive Guyana Jaguars bowling attack boasting of Keemo Paul (2/25), Veerasammy Permaul (1/14), Devendra Bishoo (1/31) and Christopher Barnwell (4/35).
Hutchinson, who has provided breakthroughs at the starting of the bowling innings for USA, went wicket-less in his opening spell which literally denied USA any sort of advantage at the start to defend the low total. It was Saurabh Netravalkar, who provided the first breakthrough as he dismissed Simon Hetmyer in the 2nd over.
Any chance USA would have had quickly went out of the equation as Chanderpaul Hemraj (64 off 59) and the legend himself, Shivnarine Chanderpaul (39 off 62) combined together for a 89-runs partnership for the 2nd wicket.
Both eventually got out but the target was too less for USA to look for a comeback as Leon Johnson (19 n.o) and Christopher Barnwell (19 n.o) took them past the finish line with Guyana Jaguars reaching 150/3 in 30.2 overs to win the match by 7 wickets.
