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SERIES 8, SEPTEMBER 13, 14
SPARTAN, BANKS AMONG FOUR WINNERS
Maiden century for Kevin Marshall of Pickwick
THERE was no change in the gap between the top two teams as Spartan and Banks recorded victories, along with Maple and St. Catherine.
Spartan defeated Cable & Wireless by six wickets at Wildey, Banks won by a similar margin against Carlton at Black Rock, Maple beat BDFSP by 97 runs at Trents and St. Catherine rolled over YMPC by nine wickets at Bayfield.
First innings points were attained by Combined Schools, Empire and Pickwick over Police, Wanderers and BCL.
Opener Kevin Marshall of Pickwick recorded a maiden century, while Banks captain Winston Reid became the second bowler for the season to take 50 wickets following the feat of his team-mate and fellow left-arm spinner Anderson Sealy by the sixth round.
AT WILDEY: SPARTAN were smiling from early after winning the toss, putting Cable & Wireless in and having them under pressure with the first five wickets tumbling for 45 runs.
The early damage was caused by pacer Justin Pounder, who in his first match of the season, snapped up four wickets.
The home side lost its sixth wicket at 71 but then recovered through a partnership of exactly 100 between Don O’Neale and Mwanghi Broomes – both of whom usually bat high in the order with the latter a specialist opener.
Once they were parted, the innings again went into decline and Cable & Wireless were bowled out for 178 with leg-spinner Dave Marshall coming into his own.
O’Neale topscored with 87 which contained six fours and three sixes while left-hander Broomes made 32 not out. The only other double-figure contributor was all-rounder Anthony Morris (14).
Pounder took four for 25 off ten overs and captain Marshall, four for 60 from 16 overs.
By the close, Spartan had responded with 130 for three with Kevin Stoute and veteran Livy Puckerin at the crease.
Cable & Wireless managed to limit Spartan’s intended fast progress but not before Marshall declared with the score 189 for eight.
Stoute hit the topscore of 37 after resuming on 35, Puckerin made 21 from an overnight 12 and fast bowler Hattian Graham underlined his value with the bat late in the order, scoring 25.
There were two wickets each for off-spinner Morris, leg-spinner Ryan Layne and pacer Antonio Thomas.
Cable & Wireless were again let down by their top order and stumbled to 34 for five with Pounder again making an impact.
They eventually rallied to 105 all out. Thomas topscored with 28 and fast bowler Gordon Maxwell got 21 not out.
Marshall took four for 23, Pounder three for 23 and Graham, two for 37.
Set 95 for victory, Spartan got home by six wickets. They were given a solid start by Corey Yearwood (20) and Wayne Blackman (31) who added 53 for the first wicket. Puckerin contributed 25 not out as Layne ended with three for 25.
AT BLACK ROCK: CARLTON would have been disappointed with a total of 157 after winning the toss on a hard pitch but by the close of the opening day, they had fought back gallantly to leave the battle for first innings intriguingly poised.
Barry Chandler, one of twin brothers playing in the match – the other was Bruce – jointly hit the topscore of 37 with Jason Clarke, a pugnacious left-handed opener who was playing his first match of the season. Kirk Gibson and wicket-keeper Rommel King each made 20.
It was the same old story with the Banks bowlers. Captain Winston Reid took six for 47 off 19 overs to move to 51 wickets for the season and fellow left-arm spinner Anderson Sealy, four for 66, as they sent down all but seven of 43.5 overs in the innings.
Banks were tottering on 119 for nine before Sealy and Reid again came into the picture to haunt Carlton by taking the score to 151 without being parted by the close.
The pair then stretched their last wicket stand to 49 in giving Banks the lead before Sealy fell for 29 after resuming on 24, leaving Reid unbeaten on 32.from an overnight 20. Former West Indies wicket-keeper Junior Murray of Grenada, made 26.
Off-spinner Ryan Austin took five for 37. Pacers Reunel Agard and Callitos Lopez each picked up two for 32 and 47.
Having reached 56 for one at one stage, Carlton seemed to be putting up a fight but then collapsed and were bowled out for 134.
Jason Clarke made 59 off 97 balls, lashing three fours and two sixes before falling to a controversial catch on the midwicket boundary by Richard Carter off Sealy. Bruce Chandler’s 25 was the next best score.
Sealy took four for 76, Reid three for 26 and fast bowler Gregory Alleyne two for 18.
In pursuit of a victory target of 124, Banks triumphed by six wickets. They were put on course by a second wicket partnership of 52 between Adrian Springer and Orion Bostic after losing Carter for 15 with the score on 17.
Bostic made 37 and Springer 34. The target was achieved with Murray (16 not out) and veteran Barry Callender (10 not out).
Shirley Clarke’s tidy off-spin brought him two wickets for 28 runs.
AT LESTER VAUGHAN, CANE GARDEN: SOLID batting by the Combined Schools top order spurred them to first innings points over Police and the only innings total of over 300 for the series.
In response to Police’s 184 after Trevor Griffith won the toss, the Schools moved from an overnight 131 for three to 331 all out.
Nicholas Stanford, a former Queen’s College student, now enrolled at Lodge, led the way with 60. He batted for two-and-a-quarter hours, faced 111 balls and struck six fours.
Mark Trotman, another product of Lodge, scored an even fifty in 105 minutes from 77 deliveries. He struck six boundaries and a six.
Opener Renaldo Parris, formerly of Coleridge & Parry and now at Alexandra, made 50 in two-and-a-quarter hours on the first day before falling just before the close. His 123-ball innings included seven fours.
Parris and Nicholas Squires (25) added 51 for the first wicket and then Renaldo Parris and Nikolai Parris (23) put on 50 for the second wicket. Omar Phillips contributed 27.
Left-armer Sadiq Hill took four for 64 and fellow spinner Jimmy Small three for 81. Pacer Ryan Willoughby picked up two for 50.
Phillips, a Coleridge & Parry student, undermined the Police batting with his leg-breaks on the first day, taking five for 39 off 13 overs. Pacer Javon Searles took three for 57 from nine overs.
Griffith was the topscorer with 42, Dwayne Brathwaite got 31, Edison Rock 30 and Stanton Proverbs 25.
In the Police second innings, coincidentally of 184 for seven, Griffith made 46 not out, Brathwaite 44 and Hill 22. Left-arm spinner Steve Pinder of Foundation took six for 64 off 17 overs.
AT BANK HALL: EMPIRE made significant progress on the opening day to come within 15 runs of taking first innings honours over Wanderers with eight wickets standing.
They then established a 67-run lead but were defied by the experienced Owen Birch, whose knock of 90 carried Wanderers to 212 for eight in the second innings.
Roland Holder’s team would have fancied their chances of running through the Wanderers batting after putting them in on a firm pitch and taking the first five wickets with 66 runs scored.
But Phillip Aimey and wicket-keeper Corey Glasgow combined to add 46 for the sixth wicket before Wanderers were bowled out for 176.
Left-hander Glasgow scored 50 with 12 threes and one four, and Aimey, another left-hander, made 46. Off-spinner Alcindo Holder and left-arm pacer Ian Perryman both took three for 26 and pacer Ryan Nurse, two for 59.
Spurred by a second wicket partnership of 122 between left-hander Jason Haynes and Shawn Graham, Empire reached 162 for two at the close. Haynes scored 69 off 83 balls with 11 threes – five of them in succession – along with two fours, while Graham was on 65 with seven threes.
Graham agonizingly missed out on a second century for the season, falling for 97 in a total of 243 for six declared. He hit 11 threes and three fours. Alcindo Holder made 25.
Pacers Anton Maynard and Hendy Bryan each took two wickets for 43 and 57 runs.
Apart from Birch’s 90 which was spruced with 15 threes and two fours, captain Dwayne Nurse and Aimey made 32 each in the fighting Wanderers second innings effort.
Perryman took four for 28 and Nurse, two for 37.
AT TRENTS: IMPROVING all-rounder Khalid Springer undermined the BDFSP batting with a nine-wicket haul including six in the second innings to bowl Maple to a 97-run win.
The pressure was on BDFSP from the opening day when they could only manage 83 in reply to the home team’s first innings of 174 after Maple were put in.
Andy Payne showed why he is regarded as the top batsman in the side by hitting an unbeaten 64 after Maple were in some bother at 54 for five.
Payne, who batted at No. 6, added 51 for the sixth wicket with Springer (21), and 50 for the eighth wicket with another gifted young, emerging all-rounder Shane Ramsey (20). Payne was at the crease for 118 minutes, faced 97 balls and struck seven threes and two fours.
Earlier, Kirk Straughn contributed 20 as an opener.
The slim off-spinner Jason Smith, in his second match of the season after returning home from a professional contract in Britain, took four for 77, fast bowler Marlon Blagrove, two for 31 and medium-pacer Tennyson Roach, two for 32.
Springer then grabbed three of the first four wickets cheaply as BDFSP limped to 34 for four before Paul Alleyne and Roach managed to add 21. But the innings again went into decline as off-spinner Ramsey came into his own with five wickets. Roach made 24 and Alleyne 15.
Ramsey, who was not afraid to flight the ball, took five for 16 off 7.4 overs while Springer ended with three for 21 as BDFSP batted without the injured fast bowler Corey Edwards.
Payne was again topscorer, this time with 43 off 46 balls including six threes and two fours in Maple’s second innings of 118 for eight declared as Blagrove, Roach and Alleyne each picked up two wickets.
Set 210 to win, BDFSP were given a more than encouraging start by Corey Clarke and Shane Mayers who put on 93 for the first wicket.
But lo and behold, in easily the most sensational collapse of the season, nine wickets crashed for 19 runs and with Edwards again unable to bat, the innings folded for 112.
Mayers scored 46 and Clarke 44. Springer took six for 15 off 9.4 overs – all of his wickets coming in 16 deliveries including four in one over.
Kirk Straughn, who picked up the first three wickets, finished with three for 19.
AT KENSINGTON OVAL: KEVIN Marshall’s maiden century was the highlight of the match in which Pickwick took first innings over the BCL.
Marshall, a left-handed opener, hit 101 in his team’s first innings total of 260 for five declared after winning the toss on an easy-paced pitch. Missed on 72, Marshall struck eight boundaries.
Joseph Harris, an India-born former Barbados all-rounder, who captained Canada in the last World Cup in South Africa, contributed 52 before he was run out in his first match since returning to the island recently to reside.
Mike Matthews made 33, Kerry Holder 25 and captain Rondelle Yearwood 20.
BCL then faced another of their familiar tough tasks as they were reduced to 36 for four by the close with three of the wickets going to experienced left-armer Scofield Hewitt.
A wonderful fightback was led by the overnight pair of Kamal Turney and Richard Harbin but after adding 104, there was a dramatic collapse with the last six wickets tumbling for 40 runs as Hewitt and Harris took over.
Harbin, in his first match of the season – he was kept out because of work commitments - topscored with 68 not out, while Turney made 65. No other batsman reached double figures.
Hewitt, a former Barbados and West Indies under-19 player, took six for 45 off 19.5 overs, and Harris, bowling off-breaks, three for 44.
Pickwick were 53 for four in the second innings. Anthony Hurley made 22. Medium-pacer Julian Niles took three for 24.
AT BAYFIELD: YMPC’s batting was a major let down as St. Catherine easily triumphed by nine wickets to record their second consecutive victory.
After declaring at their overnight 170 for three - a first innings lead of 68 - St. Catherine dismissed YMPC for 127.
That total was due mainly to Lonsdale Blake, who scored 45 after YMPC were tottering on 48 for seven. Blake added 34 with Jamal Joseph for the eighth wicket and 38 for the ninth wicket with Richmael Jordan.
Fast bowler Jamal Noel took four for 34 to end with a match haul of eight for 56.
The home team took just 12.1 overs to knock off their target of 60. Captain Derrick Bishop made 23 not out.
In YMPC’s first innings total of 102 all out after they were put in, Wendell Coppin scored 29 and Eric Batson 21.
Noel grabbed four for 22, seasoned pacer Brian Shepherd, three for 18 and off-spinner Kenroy Williams, three for 32.
Williams led the St. Catherine batting on the opening day with an unbeaten 60 which took him to just two runs short of the 500-run mark.
Wicket-keeper/batsman Patrick Browne, who has been woefully short of runs this season, made 50 not out – his best so far – as he and Williams featured in a stand of 109. Coppin took two for 60.
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