Rohan Scarlett (left), finance manager at GK General Insurance, looks on after presenting the ISSA Grace Shield to members of the Papine High School team after their victory over St George’s College at Melbourne Oval yesterday.<strong> (Photo: Joseph Wellington)</strong>
Papine cop first ISSA/Grace Shield title
PAPINE High defeated St George’s College by an innings and 89 runs to capture the 2017 Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/GraceShield Schoolboys cricket final on the second day of the their three-day match at the Melbourne Oval yesterday.
Papine High were gaining their first hold on the coveted title since becoming a high school.
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Scores at the end of the final: St George’s College 168 all out, and 127 all out off 35 overs. Papine High 384 all out off 73 overs.
Papine High’s captain Andre Bailey scored the lone century (104) in the match, while all-rounder Orande Pearson produced a match haul of 11 wickets for 87 runs.
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Papine High’s coach Shane Brooks was happy that his players finally won the title.
“We got more than the runs we wanted St George’s to chase in their second innings. My aim was to get a good first-innings lead which would be very tough and challenging for our opponents,” Brooks said.
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“It was just hard work that started with training before the competition that when into the matches and it paid off nicely for the players. It’s hard to single out any individual player as it was an entire all-round teamwork that brought us victory,” said Brooks, who couldn’t help but identify captain Bailey and Pearson for playing major roles in the win.
Brooks said he would be looking for the double when Papine face the winners of the Grace Headley Cup final for the all-island Spaulding Cup championship match.
Meanwhile, assistant coach of St George’s College, John Gordon, said the better team won and he congratulated Papine on their brilliant performance throughout the final.
“Once again the team batted poorly, just as in their first innings… it was even worse in the second innings. They played too many careless and poorly calculated shots which were their downfall, which began from the first day and into yesterday’s second-day defeat,” Gordon said.
He said to get over 200 was challenging, and the batsmen struggled all the way as they lost wickets easily.
Papine, resuming from their overnight score of 242 for five and with a lead of 73 runs, added a further 142 runs while losing their last five wickets.
Captain Andre Bailey went on to score his century, 104 runs, which contained nine fours and three sixes, while other worthy contributions came from Kishwan Graham who made 34, Dwayne Moore, 23, and Shemar Edwards with 18.
The most successful bowlers for St George’s College were Gareth Holmes, who took three for 60, Kirk McKenzie, three for 106, and Vauyani Bailey, with two for 106.
Trailing by 216 runs, St George’s College batting a second time were in trouble as they were 69 for three wickets, and then reeling at 117 for six wickets.
Pearson, who captured five of St George’s wickets in the first innings, produced another devastating spell of off spin bowling as the batsmen found him hard to dispatch with his accurate line and length.
He went on to rip the batting apart once again by capturing six wickets for 46 runs to add to his five wickets for 41 runs in the first innings to finish the match in fine style with 11 wickets for 87 runs.
The main contributors for St George’s College in their second innings were Kymani Wilson with 45 (six fours), Kirk McKenzie, with 27 (four fours), and Bailey with 25. Rushawn Riley supported Pearson in the bowling department with three wickets for 28 runs.
Orande Pearson (second left) of Papine High School races away with a stump after taking the last wicket in his team’s win against St George’s College in the final of the 2017 ISSA Grace Shield schoolboys cricket final at the Melbourne Oval yesterday. He captured six for 46 in St George’s College’s second innings.<strong> (Photo: Joseph Wellington)</strong>
