ST AUGUSTINE, Trinidad, CMC – A formidable maiden Checklist 100 from their captain Shane Dowrich steered Mixed Campuses & Schools Marooners to an exhilarating two-wicket win in opposition to Windward Islands Volcanoes off the final ball within the West Indies Super50 Cup on Sunday in Trinidad.
The discarded West Indies wicketkeeper-batsman struck solely three fours and three sixes in an undefeated 102 off 101 balls, and the Marooners efficiently chased 268 at Frank Worrell Area to clinch their first win of this yr’s event.
Dowrich, who has performed 35 Assessments however solely a single One-day Worldwide for West Indies, anchored three important half-centuries that stored the Marooners within the hunt for the win after he arrived together with his facet on 66 for 2 within the sixteenth over.
He placed on 74 with fellow Barbadian opener Kadeem Alleyne for the third wicket, shared 63 for the fifth wicket with Jordan Johnson, and swung the match decisively in an eighth wicket stand of 57 with one other Barbadian, Romario Greaves.
Alleyne hit 4 fours and three sixes in 68 off 75 balls, Johnson added a run-a-ball 34, and Greaves made 14 earlier than he was run out off the penultimate ball of the match, with the Marooners needing solely 4 to win.
Jediah Blades formalized the outcome when he glanced a supply from imported Barbadian all-rounder Shamar Springer to the nice leg boundary for 4 to sentence the Volcanoes to their third consecutive loss.
Pacer Darel Cyrus was the decide of the Volcanoes bowlers with 4 for 54 from 10 overs, triggering a Marooners middle-order collapse, and left-arm spinner Larry Edward supported with two for 65 from 10 overs.
The Marooners acquired a vibrant begin when Alleyne and fellow opener Johann Jeremiah carried them to 51 with out loss on the finish of the primary Energy Play.
Jeremiah was caught at deep sq. leg off Springer for 30 within the eleventh over, and Cyrus bowled Shaqkere Parris for 9 within the sixteenth over to carry Dowrich to the crease.
The 31-year-old anchored the Marooners batting the remainder of the best way, defying the damaging spell from Cyrus and the middle-order collapse during which his facet misplaced Alleyne, Akshaya Persaud, and Shatrughan Rambaran for no runs – all within the twenty ninth over – the seventh for Cyrus.
Jordan got here to the wicket and revived the possibilities of the Marooners with Dowrich earlier than he was hit wicket to Edward within the thirty ninth over. When Abhijai Mansingh was caught at long-on off Edward for 4 within the forty third over, the composite facet nonetheless wanted 58 to win from 45 balls.
Greaves held his nerve within the closing phases and acquired the Marooners shut earlier than he was dismissed attempting to get a single to provide Dowrich the strike and the accountability of attempting to hit the successful runs – however it all labored out.
Earlier, half-centuries from Alick Athanaze, Trinidadian Jeremy Solozano, and Sunil Ambris have been the rocks upon which the Volcanoes constructed their complete of 267 for eight after they have been put into bat.
Athanaze hit 4 fours and three sixes within the prime rating of 65 from 68 balls, Solozano supported with a resolute 55 from 81 balls, and Ambris made a run-a-ball 52.
Athanaze and Solozano added 87 for the second wicket after the early lack of Johnson Charles for 4, and Ambris supported their captain, Andre Fletcher, in a fifth-wicket stand of 63.
The Volcanoes labored by the final ten overs, gathering solely 52, and misplaced 4 wickets to undermine their effort to put up a extra important goal.
Mansingh, Guyanese pacer Isai Thorne, and left-arm pacer Blades all captured two wickets for the Marooners.
The event continues on Monday with two matches beginning at 9 a.m. when Guyana Harpy Eagles face Leeward Islands Hurricanes at Queen’s Park Oval, and Barbados Satisfaction meets West Indies Academy at Frank Worrell Area.
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