KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Check captain Kraigg Brathwaite ended a worrying droop with an unbeaten hundred, certainly one of three triple-figure scores on the second day of the third spherical of matches within the West Indies Championship right here Thursday.
The 31-year-old opener, who scored 27 runs from his earlier 4 innings within the match to observe up his 34 runs on the two-Check tour of Australia final month, produced a sometimes affected person 129 not out to steer Barbados Satisfaction to 315 for six of their first innings at Sabina Park.
Starting the day on one with Satisfaction on 15 with out loss in reply to Jamaica Scorpions’ 269, Brathwaite confronted 290 balls and counted 13 fours to report his thirty first first-class hundred.
He acquired assist from Kevin Wickham, the elegant 20-year-old carving out 63 from 92 balls with a half-dozen fours, whereas Jonathan Drakes chipped in with 31.
Brathwaite’s effort was required after his aspect slipped to 36 for 2 early within the day, shedding Zachary McCaskie lbw for 15 to a full-length supply from seamer Derval Inexperienced (2-38) and Shayne Moseley, caught low down at first slip by Chadwick Walton driving at pacer Ojay Shields.
Brathwaite then added 55 for the third wicket with Drakes, 120 for the fourth wicket with Wickham, and 63 for the fifth wicket with Roshon Primus (22).
Heading into day three, Satisfaction lead by 46 runs with 4 wickets intact.
At Chedwin Park in St Catherine, newly minted Check batsman Kavem Hodge struck his fifth first-class hundred whereas veteran Sunil Ambris carved out his eighth as Windward Islands Volcanoes stamped their authority over Mixed and Campuses and Faculties Marooners.
Hodge, 31, completed unbeaten on 130 whereas Ambris, 30, lashed an up-tempo 120, the 2 knocks firing Volcanoes to 358 for eight in reply to CCC’s 204 – a lead of 154 runs.
Resuming the morning and not using a run on the board, Volcanoes tumbled to 75 for 4 as off-spinner Romario Greaves (5-142) struck important blows within the prime order.
Kimani Melius provided no stroke to seamer Govasta Edmond and was bowled for 13; left-hander Johan Jeremiah edged a defensive prod behind off left-arm pacer Jediah Blades for 12 whereas Jeremy Solozano holed out to long-off off Greaves for 19.
When Check left-hander Alick Athanaze perished for a breezy 26 off 35 balls, lacking a again foot stroke and adjudged lbw to Greaves, Volcanoes had been in peril of collapse.
Nonetheless, Ambris, who performed six Assessments and 16 One-Day Internationals, and Hodge, who made his Check debut on the latest tour of Australia, mixed in a 192-run, fifth-wicket partnership to carry their aspect out of bother.
Ambris counter-attacked brilliantly, his innings requiring solely 114 balls, together with ten fours and 4 sixes. He introduced up his fifty off simply 44 deliveries and reached his hundred off 98 deliveries with the primary ball after tea, paddle-sweeping Greaves for a pair.
Hodge, in the meantime, struck 13 fours and confronted 230 balls in rather more composed innings, his half-century needing 100 deliveries and his hundred requiring 178.
As soon as Ambris top-edged a sweep at Greaves and was taken behind sq., Volcanoes misplaced momentum, with three wickets falling for 28 runs in the direction of the tip.
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