Guyana lose again

JOHANNESBURG,

South Africa, (CMC):

Guyana gave another unconvincing performance, and crashed to their third straight defeat in the Champions League Twenty20 Championship yesterday, when the Highveld Lions comfortably out-muscled them by nine wickets.

The Guyanese were unsuccessful in defending a target score of 149, as half-centuries from Richard Cameron and Lions captain Alviro Petersen led the South African side to victory with 29 balls to spare in the 14th match of the competition at the Wanderers.

Career-best

Cameron struck five fours and six sixes in a List-A Twenty20 career-best, undefeated 78 from 42 balls, and Petersen hit six fours and two sixes in an unbeaten 57 from 38 balls. They added a Lions T20 record 133 - unbroken - for the second wicket.

Steven Jacobs hit five fours in the top score of 34 from 37 balls for the Amazon Conquerors, and embattled Guyana captain Ramnaresh Sarwan made 21, but no other Guyanese batsman passed 20.

Guyana's batting was undermined by Ethan O'Reilly with a List-A Twenty20 career-best four wickets for 27 runs from his allotted four overs that earned him the Man-of-the-Match award.

The result condemned the Guyanese to remain at the bottom of the five-team ladder in Group-B with no points from their three matches, after they lost their opening match against Royal Challengers Bangalore by the same margin last Sunday at SuperSport Park, and then suffered a 31-run defeat to the Mumbai Indians last Thursday at Kingsmead.

Guyana face South Australia Redbacks at the Wanderers in their final group match tomorrow.