BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Rookies Mikyle Louis and Joshua Bishop topped the aggregates throughout final weekend’s West Indies Championship.
In his maiden first-class season, the right-handed Louis scored 682 runs to prime the batting charts, averaging 48.71 whereas scoring 300 and 4 fifties for Leeward Islands Hurricanes.
He got here to prominence within the second spherical when he scored a whole bunch in each innings in opposition to Guyana Harpy Eagles at Warner Park. He then reached triple figures once more within the remaining spherical in opposition to Windward Islands Volcanoes final week.
The 23-year-old had performed a handful of matches within the Regional Super50 seven years in the past when he turned out for West Indies Beneath-19s.
Left-arm spinner Bishop, who featured in that very same West Indies Beneath-19 aspect alongside Louis, was the main wicket-taker with 42 scalps at a miserly 20.07 runs apiece on this 12 months’s championship.
The 23-year-old, enjoying within the colours of West Indies Academy, shone with a Man-of-the-Match 10-wicket haul within the fourth spherical in opposition to Jamaica Scorpions although his aspect suffered defeat in Kingston.
In solely his second first-class season, Bishop additionally proved useful with the bat, scoring 251 runs within the decrease order, together with a half-century.
He was subsequently named in a 15-man West Indies-A aspect to tour Nepal for 5 Twenty20s beginning Saturday.
In the meantime, Check captain Kraigg Brathwaite (565), Guyana Harpy Eagles all-rounder Kevin Sinclair (508), and Trinidad and Tobago Pink Power’s Amir Jango (500) had been the opposite batsmen to achieve the 500-run landmark.
Within the penultimate spherical, the left-handed Jangoo struck the season’s solely double hundred with a splendid 218 in opposition to Mixed Campuses and Faculties on the Frank Worrell Memorial Floor.
West Indies white-ball batsmen Keacy Carty (495) and Harpy Eagles captain Tevin Imlach (485) flirted with the 500-run mark.
Not for the primary time, spinners dominated the wicket-taking chart. Left-arm spinners Jomel Warrican (35) and Ashmead Nedd (33), together with off-spinners Rahkeem Cornwall (32) and Bryan Charles (31), rounded out the highest 5.
The main seamer was Hurricanes’ Jeremiah Louis, with 30 wickets at virtually 20 runs apiece.
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