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Review by: KEITH
HOLDER
HAVING shown signs of exploding
from his previous two innings, YMPC captain Dwayne
Smith lived up to expectations by blasting one of
the fastest ever centuries in the history of the
32-year championship, but it was in vain against St.
Catherine.
Banks captain Michael “Flash”
Maynard also hit a hundred off BCL. Unlike Smith,
however, his effort set up an easy 75-run win, while
Randy Thomas of Cable & Wireless missed three out by
two runs against Pickwick who were again on the
losing end.
YMPC lost by 93 runs at their
cosy Beckles Road ground after another attacking
batsman, Ahmed Proverbs, had set the stage for
big-hitting with co-incidentally, 93.
Smith went to the crease at No.
4 and clobbered 14 fours and 12 threes as he raced
to his hundred off only 48 balls before he was
bowled by left-arm spinner Glyne Strickland for
exactly 100. His fifty came off just 18 deliveries
and included eight threes and six fours.
Proverbs, a former Barbados
player, had put St. Catherine on course for what
turned out to be an imposing 294 for seven off 50
overs after they had the luck of the toss.
Batting at No. 3, Proverbs
smashed 11 fours and five threes in his 89-ball
knock after taking 30 balls to reach his
half-century.
Smith and his West Indies
team-mate, fast bowler Fidel Edwards were both
expensive. Medium-pacer Smith had one for 67 off ten
overs while Edwards was wicketless in conceding 46
runs off six overs.
Opener Maynard lived up to his
nickname with a knock of 104 in a total of 290 for
eight off 50 overs at The Brewery. He reached his
century off 120 balls with six sixes and seven fours
and added 131 for the second wicket with former
Empire player Keegan Alleyne (51). Dale Brathwaite
was again in the runs, scoring 71.
Newcomer Dean Fergusson made 59
and Ricardo Yearwood 56 for BCL who fell for 215 in
41.5 overs.
At Wildey, Thomas, a BCL
captain as recently as last season, fell for 98. The
opener hit 11 fours and two sixes in his 122-ball
innings, dominating a second wicket stand of 111
with Junior Holder (28) in pursuit of 178.
Pickwick’s 177 for nine off 50
overs represented a significant fightback after they
were tottering on 25 for six before the youthful
newcomer Mark Edghill (44) and oldstager George
Harris (59) added exactly 100 for the seventh
wicket.
Carlo Morris of Carlton also
missed an opportunity to record a century. He made
94 in a total of 281 for seven off Wanderers who
lost by 141 runs at Dayrells Road.
Empire remained the only
unbeaten team by way of a 43-run win over
arch-rivals Spartan at Bank Hall.
The reliable Shawn Graham
scored 87 in Empire’s 201 all out in the very last
ball of the innings.
Barbados Youth ‘A’ kept on
course for a place in the quarter-finals with a
two-wicket victory over Maple at Trents, their ‘B’
counterparts also won – by five wickets over BDFSP
at Waterford, and UWI defeated Police by two wickets
at Weymouth.
For UWI, Raymond Singh, a
left-arm spinner from Guyana, took five for 16.
Singh thus became the fourth bowler of his type to
pick up a five-wicket haul this season.
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