TAROUBA, Trinidad, CMC – Opener Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Shimron Hetmyer each struck kind on the preferrred time as Guyana Harpy Eagles thrashed Jamaica Scorpions by seven wickets of their closing preliminary sport of the Super50 Cup right here Saturday to safe their spot in subsequent week’s semi-finals.
Needing 9 factors to overhaul West Indies Academy for the ultimate spot, Harpy Eagles bundled out the winless Scorpions for a paltry 181 to achieve three precious bonus factors earlier than comfortably chasing down a revised goal of 184 below Duckworth-Lewis-Stern after the sport was lowered to 47 overs per aspect because of a size rain break.
Check star Chanderpaul, with a highest earlier rating of 30 in his final 5 innings, top-scored with 77 off 110 deliveries with eight fours, whereas fellow left-hander Hetmyer, with simply 83 runs from six innings within the event, punched an unbeaten 62 off 53 balls with 5 fours and two sixes.
“It’s no secret that we’ve been struggling a bit with the bat,” mentioned Tevin Imlach in his first sport as captain.
“It’s good to see them again among the many runs. They’ve been wanting runs within the event however peaking on the proper time, hopefully.”
With the outcome, Harpy Eagles moved into fourth place on 34 factors, becoming a member of Leeward Islands Hurricanes (44), Trinidad and Tobago Crimson Pressure (40), and Barbados Pleasure (37), who had already certified.
West Indies Academy narrowly missed out with 33 factors in fifth, whereas Mixed Campuses and Schools completed sixth with 29 factors.
The semi-final match-ups will likely be confirmed on Sunday following the ultimate preliminary sport between Crimson Pressure and Pleasure.
Dethroned title-holders Scorpions, in the meantime, completed all-time low on seven factors with no win, shedding six of their seven outings.
“It’s arduous for me now to pinpoint one or two issues [behind our poor performance],” mentioned a dejected captain, Rovman Powell.
“However we are able to return to the batting – the batting hasn’t [stood] up all season. Final night time, I used to be mendacity in mattress, and once I regarded round [in my mind], now we have about 5 or 6 half-centuries in your complete crew. At this degree, that’s unacceptable.
“And whenever you look on the bowling features of issues, we are able to depend possibly one or two instances the place a bowler [got] three or so wickets for us.
“And whenever you look on the fielding side of issues, we dropped catches at essential intervals, so all in all, it’s been a disappointing season.”
Brad Barnes top-scored with 36, Powell bought 33 whereas Chadwick Walton chipped in with 26 because the Scorpions folded cheaply after selecting to bat first on the Brian Lara Stadium.
Walton and Nkrumah Bonner (20) placed on 39 for the second wicket, Powell and Andre McCarthy (23) added 53 for the fourth, however a center order stoop that noticed 4 wickets tumble for 13 runs off 45 balls sealed the Scorpion’s demise.
Barnes belted a few sixes in a 53-ball knock, posting 30 for the ninth with Shalome Parnell (13 not out), however he was one among two wickets to fall within the closing over from pacer Nial Smith (3-26) to offer Harpy Eagles the essential early bonus factors.
“With the bonus factors system, it’s a sport inside a sport,” mentioned Imlach.
“Stepping into, we knew we wanted about 9 factors, and having gotten three already was all the time going to make it a lot simpler for us with the bat.”
Off-spinner Kevin Sinclair captured three for 48, whereas medium pacer Sherfane Rutherford (2-38) and left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul (2-38) completed with two wickets.
Sinclair (7) was an early casualty of the Harpy Eagles run chase, holing out to mid-on within the fifth over. Nonetheless, Chanderpaul held the innings collectively, posting 86 for the second wicket with Imlach (30) and 63 for the third wicket with Hetmyer.
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