TAROUBA, Trinidad, CMC – Off-spinner Brad Barnes and medium pacer Odean Smith bowled the Jamaica Scorpions to their largest win of the 2025 West Indies Championship as they crushed the Trinidad and Tobago Purple Power by 223 runs right here on Friday.
Barnes took 4 wickets, and Smith took three, serving to bundle the Purple Power out for 165 of their second innings. This dealt them their first lack of the event whereas recording their third win in six matches.
The outcome quickly catapulted them from fifth to 3rd place on 82.8 factors, as they await the end result of the matches between Barbados Pleasure (78 factors), Windward Islands Volcanoes (45.8 factors), the Guyana Harpy Eagles (102.6 factors), and Leeward Islands Hurricanes (79.6 factors).
With yet another spherical of matches remaining earlier than the playoffs, the outcome has arrange an exhilarating race for the highest 4 positions.
Having earned an enormous 201-run first-inning lead, the Scorpions’ batsmen failed to fireplace within the second innings and had been dismissed for simply 187.
Brandon King offered the one type of resistance, scoring 89 from 142 balls, with 11 fours and one six.
Off-spinner Bryan Charles took 4-82, Khary Pierre claimed 3-43, and pacer Shannon Gabriel scored 2-28 for the Purple Power.
Confronted with a mammoth activity of scoring 388 runs for victory, the Purple Power discovered themselves on the again foot from the get-go.
Quick bowler Marquino Mindley bowled Kamil Pooran for 4, and Smith dislodged Amir Jangoo’s stumps after he scored 18, leaving him with a rating of 37 for 2.
Smith struck once more when he dismissed opener Cephas Cooper for twenty-four earlier than snaring the essential wicket of captain Joshua Da Silva for 16, because the Purple Power slipped to 81 for 4.
Barnes then joined in on the motion, dismissing Khary Pierre, Jason Mohammed, and Yannic Cariah rapidly to cut back the house aspect to 119 for seven.
With the competition successfully over, Terrance Hinds and Charles offered some resistance throughout a 32-run partnership for the ninth wicket till leg spinner Abhijai Mansingh introduced the match to an finish by accounting for the wickets of Charles and Gabriel.
Barnes completed with figures of 4-19, Smith snagged 3-19, whereas Mansingh took 2-27.
