ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – On Wednesday, a harmful spell from Anderson Phillip and strong top-order batting gave Trinidad & Tobago Pink Drive the higher hand in opposition to leaders Windward Islands Volcanoes within the West Indies Championship.
The 27-year-old discarded West Indies pacer returned the very best bowling efficiency on the primary day of the fourth spherical of matches, taking 5 for 37 from 13 overs. The Volcanoes had been bowled out for 191 of their first innings after they had been put into bat.
West Indies left-hander Alick Athanaze hit the highest rating of 56 for the guests, long-serving batsman Sunil Ambris made 35, West Indies batsman Kavem Hodge received 28, and Barbadian wicketkeeper-batsman Tevyn Walcott supported with the identical rating.
Lengthy-standing opener Kjorn Ottley then made 47 and shared a primary wicket stand of 87 with Vikash Mohan earlier than falling within the closing phases, and Pink Drive reached 89 for one when stumps had been drawn at Queen’s Park Oval within the T&T capital of Port of Spain.
On the crease, Ottley struck seven fours from 74 balls in somewhat greater than an hour-and-a-half earlier than 2016 Below-19 World Cup-winning all-rounder Shamar Springer received him caught at mid-off from a forefront, essaying a whip.
Mohan remained not out on 34 on the shut, and Jyd Goolie was not on one.
Elsewhere, half-centuries from their earlier captain, Kevlon Anderson, and his successor, Tevin Imlach, enabled defending champions Guyana Harpy Eagles to bat all day in opposition to Barbados Delight within the renewal of the oldest rivalry within the West Indies first-class recreation at Coolidge Cricket Floor in Antigua.
Anderson rekindled fond reminiscences of his maiden first-class hundred for the Cricket West Indies Academy within the Headley-Weekes Tri-Collection final yr on the similar venue with a resolute 87. Imlach supported with 55, and the Harpy Eagles reached 231 for 4 of their first innings on the shut after they had been put into bat.
West Indies opener Tagenarine Chanderpaul, son of former Guyana and West Indies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul, made 40, and former West Indies Below-19 opener Matthew Nandu added 28.
Former West Indies captain Jason Holder, enjoying his first match for the Delight within the event for 4 years, ended with two for 29 from 15.2 overs, together with the scalp of Kemol Savory with the eventual final supply of the day.
Second-placed Leeward Islands Hurricanes suffered a big setback early after hosts Mixed Campuses & Faculties Marooners determined to bat and had been bowled out for 253 of their first innings at Frank Worrell Area on the St Augustine campus of the College of the West Indies in Trinidad.
In his second over and third of the innings, left-arm pacer Jediah Blades bowled opener Mikyle Louis, the linchpin of the Hurricanes batting this season, for 4, and the guests closed on 20 for one.
Three of the Marooner’s batters received half-centuries to defy penetrative bowling from the Hurricanes led by left-arm spinner Daniel Doram.
Amari Goodridge, batting at 9, scored the highest rating of 75; Sadique Henry, batting at three, made 73; and off-spinner Romario Greaves supported with 58.
Doram ended with 4 for 37 from 21.2 overs, pacer Jeremiah Louis bagged three for 54 from 14 overs, and Hurricanes captain and champion off-spinner Rahkeem Cornwall grabbed three for 86 from 18 overs.
West Indies Below-19 batsman Joshua Dorne redeemed himself with a fluent 83, hometown boy Jordan Johnson made 61, and opener Kadeem Alleyne hit 51 earlier than the CWI Academy had been bowled out for 324 of their first innings, after hosts Jamaica Scorpions put them in to bat within the different match at Sabina Park.
The three half-centuries marked strong batting down the order that additionally included knocks of 36 from Joshua James, 25 from left-handed opener Rashawn Worrell, and 24 from West Indies Below-19 wicketkeeper-batsman Carlon Bowen-Tuckett, son of former Hurricanes and West Indies all-rounder, now umpire, Carl Tuckett.
Ojay Shields was the choose of the Scorpions bowlers with three for 38 from 12 overs, fellow pacer Derval Inexperienced supported with three for 48 from 13 overs, and leg-spinner Abhijai Mansingh, son of CWI director and chief medical officer, Dr Akshai Mansingh, completed with two for 69 from 17 overs.
Scorpions had been 20 with out loss when stumps had been drawn.
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