Hooper shines but a dark day for the Guyanese Crowd
On a cloudy day which saw murkier crowd behaviour, Guyana captain Carl Hooper provided the sole flash of brilliance as he struck an undefeated 95 against Southern Windwards to take his team to 216 for three in a rain-shortened match of 30 overs
Staff Reporter
05-Oct-2001
On a cloudy day which saw murkier crowd behaviour, Guyana captain Carl
Hooper provided the sole flash of brilliance as he struck an
undefeated 95 against Southern Windwards to take his team to 216 for
three in a rain-shortened match of 30 overs.
Hooper belted five sixes and four fours, getting his runs off only 59
balls, taking advantage of his luck with the toss to post a commanding
total against an attack that had no answers to his strokeplay. He
found an able ally in opener Sewnarine Chattergoon who made a patient
58.
Southern Windwards, in reply, could muster only 136 for the loss of
five wickets within the 30 overs. Opener Devon Smith offered some
resistance, hitting 48 off 83 balls, but Guyana marched towards an 80-
run victory relentlessly.
The only black spot in Guyana's day came in the form of an appeal from
the Guyana Cricket Board to the crowd to refrain from interrupting
play by invading the pitch. The appeal came in the wake of a brief
stoppage of play when, thinking that the match was over, several
spectators rushed on to the field to congratulate the players. The
invasion brought back memories of a similar incident during a West
Indies-Australia one-day international in 1999 when onlookers stormed
in to snatch stumps and Steve Waugh's bat even as the Australia tried
to complete the winning runs.