PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Their batting, led by Demario Richards, set them up, and their bowling, led by Romario Greaves, formalized a snug 121-run win for Mixed Campuses & Faculties Marooners towards Jamaica Scorpions within the West Indies Super50 Cup on Friday in Trinidad.
Greaves bagged 4 for 51 from his allotted ten overs, and the Scorpions have been bowled out for 198 in 32.4 overs, replying to the Marooners’ 320 for seven within the sixteenth match of the match that was decreased to 48 overs-a-side due to rain at Queen’s Park Oval.
Chadwick Walton led the best way for the Scorpions with a good 50, Odean Smith made 35, Brad Barnes received 31, and Jermaine Blackwood made 22, however the batting of their facet once more failed to fireside, and the defending champions slumped to their fourth successive loss.
Half-time off-spinner Akshaya Persaud took two for 25 from 4 overs to help with the demolition, fellow Guyanese pacer Isai Thorne grabbed two for 35 from 5.4 overs, and leg-spinner Abhijai Mansingh captured two for 55 from 9 overs at hand the Marooners their second win in 5 matches.
Stable batting down the order, led by Richards, Jeremiah, and Alleyne, had enabled the Marooners to publish the best whole of the match up to now and revive their possibilities of a top-four end and a spot within the semi-finals.
Left-hander Richards struck seven fours and two sixes in 71 from 82 balls and constructed upon a strong opening stand of 73 contained in the Energy Play from left-hander Jeremiah, who made 56, and Alleyne, with 51, that earned the Marooners bonus batting factors.
Walton and Blackwood then shared 42 for the primary wicket and helped Scorpions attain 73 for one after the primary Energy Play to earn a batting bonus level, however issues went all downhill from there, they usually stared defeat squarely within the face after they stumbled to 123 for six on the midway stage of their innings.
Thorne made the breakthrough when he bowled Blackwood within the fifth over, and Walton struck eight fours and one six from 35 balls to provide the Scorpions sturdy early momentum earlier than he was one in every of 4 wickets – three to Greaves – that fell earlier than they reached 100.
Greaves bowled Walton, received Nkrumah Bonner caught behind for a second-ball duck, and Scorpions captain Rovman Powell caught at deep mid-wicket for 2 within the area of 5 balls in his fourth over – the 14th of the innings.
Three overs later, Mansingh bowled left-hander Kirk McKenzie for 18 earlier than he received Jeavor Royal caught by the wicketkeeper at foolish level for six from a top-edged sweep, and the Scorpions have been in tatters on 108 for six within the twenty first over.
Smith got here to the crease and whacked 5 sixes off 20 balls, and he shared 47 for the seventh wicket with Barnes to deliver some respectability to the innings earlier than he was caught at long-on within the twenty sixth over, and the match was not a real contest.
Earlier, Alleyne slammed six fours and three sixes from 30 balls, and he was the first aggressor within the opening partnership earlier than he was caught at level off the left-arm spin of Fabian Allen within the ultimate over of the primary Energy Play that ended with Marooners 78 for one.
Jeremiah smote 9 fours and one six from 50 balls and dominated a second wicket stand of 56 with Shatrughan Rambaran earlier than they have been dismissed in successive overs. The Marooners stumbled to 132 for 3 within the seventeenth over.
Richards anchored successive stands of 71 together with his captain Shane Dowrich and 79 with Jordan Johnson that additional deflated the Scorpions, however he was one in every of three wickets – two to Smith – that the Marooners misplaced for 73 within the ultimate Energy Play.
Johnson made 41, Dowrich scored 32, and Smith was the decide of the Scorpions bowlers, ending with three for 28 from eight overs.
The match continues on Saturday when hosts and leaders Trinidad & Tobago Crimson Power meet West Indies Academy at 9 a.m. on the similar venue.
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