High-order batsman Alick Athanaze missed out on his first Check century as West Indies salvaged a draw towards South Africa within the opening Check match on the Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
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High-order batsman Alick Athanaze missed out on his first Check century as West Indies salvaged a draw towards South Africa within the opening Check match on the Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
The left-handed batsman scored 92 runs of the 298 wanted for victory. The West Indies reached 201/5 on the final day of the Check match which was affected by rain.
Athanaze confronted 116 balls smacking 9 boundaries, serving to his staff recuperate from a shaky begin after they misplaced captain Kraigg Brathwaite for a duck within the first over and fellow opener Mikyle Louis, for 9, with the rating on 18.
Athanaze shared in half-century stands with Kavem Hodge and all-rounder Jason Holder.
He had earlier added 46 for the third wicket with Keacy Carty, who hit 31 with 4 boundaries, and 63 with Hodge, who scored 29 with 4 boundaries.
However coming into the 90s Athanaze was caught by Ryan Rickelton off Keshav Maharaj (4-88), leaving the West Indies at 192/5.
Former captain Jason Holder (31) and vice-captain Joshua Da Silva then batted out the remaining overs to make sure the sport was drawn with 6.4 overs of play remaining. A complete of 142 overs have been misplaced in the course of the 5 days of the match.
Earlier, South Africa with a primary innings lead of 124 declared their second innings on 173.3 with Tristan Stubbs hitting his first Check 50, scoring a superb 68 off 50 balls with six boundaries and two sixes earlier than he was bowled by Kemar Roach.
Opener Tony de Zorzi scored 45 off 60 deliveries with 4 boundaries. He was caught on the wicket by Da Silva off spinner, Jomel Warrican,(2-57).
Maharaj was later declared the Man of the Match bagging 8-164 from his 66.2 overs.
Following the sport, Brathwaite stated he was pleased with the batting.
South African Temba Bavuma stated his staff tried “our greatest to get a end in our favor.”
Cricket West Indies to attraction Guyana court docket ruling over Bassarath
Cricket West Indies (CWI) will attraction a Excessive Courtroom ruling in Guyana, which declared the nomination and election of Azim Bassarath as CWI vice-president in March 2023, “null, void and of no authorized impact.”
CWI’s determination comes after Excessive Courtroom choose Justice Navindra Singh dominated that Bassarath’s election as vice-president was opposite to CWI Articles of Affiliation and the legal guidelines and guidelines governing elections.
A press release by Guyana Cricket Board’s (GCB) counsel outlined the explanations which led to the judges’ determination, and CWI’s attraction.
Additionally, one other GCB assertion on August 5 confirmed that they weren’t “aware of any assembly of the CWI administrators the place the choice was made to file an attraction towards the ruling of the discovered choose.”
Bassarath was appointed CWI vice-president and the present CWI president Kishore Shallow was additionally elected each for two-year phrases on the affiliation’s annual common assembly in Antigua on March 23, 2023. .
Within the assertion, the GCB stated they did nominate Bassarath for the deputy put up in January 2023 however withdrew the nomination in writing earlier than the election due to “sure experiences /info acquired by them in relation to Bassarath’s conduct as president of the TT Cricket Board.”
On the election, GCB made objections to Bassarath’s nomination however CWI returning officer Gregory Nicholls and a “chosen few quick previous administrators of CWI” met in a “huddle” and nonetheless elected him vice-president.
The GCB stated they wrote CWI a number of letters highlighting their “wrongdoing” however refused to “appropriate the incorrect” over one 12 months later.
Hailing Bassarath’s election “illegal”, the GCB approached the Guyana Excessive Courtroom for redress.
“Bassarath, Nicholls and CWI have been named as respondents within the Excessive Courtroom motion and however that they have been served with the proceedings in Might 2024 and June 2024, they didn’t file any defenses of purposes previous to the primary court docket listening to in July 5, 2024,” the discharge learn.
It added that the Excessive Courtroom granted additional time for them to take action however they didn’t.
CWI filed an utility difficult the court docket’s jurisdiction and claiming the matter needs to be referred to arbitration which was opposed by GCB counsel Arudranauth Gossai.
In response to CWI’s arbitration request, the court docket said that CWI by no means provided any completely different interpretation to the Articles of Affiliation and subsequently it couldn’t be stated {that a} dispute arose as to the interpretation of the Articles of Affiliation and subsequently the arbitration clause didn’t apply.
Singh then ordered Bassarath’s election “null and void” and “illegal”, that GCB’s withdrawal of its nomination was “legitimate”, declared the vice-president place “vacant” and {that a} new election be known as to fill this place.
The GCB additionally requested that the prices incurred as much as $100,000 to be paid to them by CWI, earlier than Aug. 26.
