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SERIES 9, SEPTEMBER 27, 28
COMMANDING CENTURIES FOR REIFER, SMITH
Carlton join Spartan and Banks in winners row
AS the championship race turned for the homestretch, Spartan and Banks again recorded wins while Carlton stepped into third position with a victory as well.
Front-runners Spartan rolled over a disappointing St. Catherine by nine wickets at Queen’s Park, second-placed Banks won by the same margin against BDFSP at the Brewery and Carlton crushed Police by ten wickets at Weymouth ‘A’.
Barbados players Floyd Reifer and Dwayne Smith warmed up for the regional Red Stripe Bowl limited overs tournament by smashing centuries. Left-handed Reifer hit 159 off Combined Schools at the Coleridge & Parry ground to set up first innings points for Cable & Wireless, while Smith made a face-saving 145 for YMPC against Pickwick, who took first innings honours at Kensington Oval.
There were also first innings points for Empire and Maple over BCL and Wanderers.
AT THE BREWERY: BANKS made such significant headway on the first day that it was only a question of how early they would eventually beat BDFSP.
Asked to bat first, BDFSP were bowled out for 121 in 36.5 overs as tormentors Winston Reid and Anderson Sealy continued their left-arm spinning show.
Reid took five for 48 off 17 overs and Sealy four for 58 from 17.5 overs. The other wicket went to pacer Gregory Alleyne.
Captain Carlo Morris was topscorer with 31 while Lamar Wiggins made 25.
After being 112 for two at one stage, Banks were dismissed for 174 in 37.3 overs. Sherwin Campbell, returning to the side after completing a second straight professional season in England with pub side Lashings, slammed 88 which included ten fours. He was at the crease for 156 minutes and faced 84 balls. Richard Carter contributed 22.
Leg-spinner Dion Pinder took five for 47 off 14 overs including the wicket of opener Campbell. National pacer Tino Best, still searching for his best form, picked up two for 44.
Facing a deficit of 53, BDFSP limped to 22 for four in eight overs by the close with Reid grabbing three of the wickets.
Barbados under-19 batsman Dadrian Forde tried desperately to hold the innings together and with Best, added 47 for the eighth wicket – the best partnership of the innings – before the innings folded at 146.
Forde scored an unbeaten 69 and Best made 29. Reid took five for 52 for a match haul of ten for 100, making it the second time for the season he had completed a ten-wicket match haul. Sealy had four for 72.
Banks’ only worry in achieving a target of 94 was a heavy shower of rain which held up play for nearly an hour with 13 more runs needed. Campbell crowned a fine match by scoring 52 not out after he and Adrian Springer put on 74 for the first wicket.
AT COLERIDGE-PARRY, ASHTON HALL: IN what was only his third match of the season, mainly due to personal commitments during the Crop Over season, Reifer hammered the Combined Schools bowling as Cable & Wireless amassed 366 all out from 74.1 overs after winning the toss.
Reifer’s century was even more telling in that Cable & Wireless were struggling on 115 for six when he went to the crease. But in partnership with the experienced and fellow former Lodge school team-mate, Brian Johnson, who made 50 off 69 balls with seven threes and three fours, a recovery was led.
The pair added 94 for the sixth wicket and then Reifer further dominated a seventh wicket partnership of 95 with Antonio Thomas whose contribution was only 18.
Reifer was last out after batting for just over three hours for his run-a-ball 159 which contained 18 threes and seven fours.
Earlier, four batsmen got into the 20s – Courtney Browne (26), Don O’Neale (25) and Ron Bates and Junior Holder (24 each).
Spinner Steve Pinder took three for 93 off 26.1 overs to command the most respect.
The Schools were under pressure at the close, reaching 21 for four. They were bowled out for 107 with Mark Trotman’s 31 the topscore. Javon Searles made 28 not out to be the only other double-figure contributor.
Pacer Gordon Maxwell took three for 17 and leg-spinner Ryan Layne, three for 34.
Following-on with a deficit of 259, the Schools were in trouble at 35 for four before left-hander Omar Phillips led a fight with Nicholas Stanford and later Cyprian Payne and Searles.
Phillips scored 37 not out, Stanford and Payne 21 each and Searles was unbeaten on 16 as the match petered out to a draw with the score 134 for six. Off-spinner Anthony Morris took two for 19.
AT BANK HALL: BCL failed to take advantage of a weakened Empire team missing four regular players who were in camp with the UWI team preparing for the Red Stripe Bowl championship, and were led on first innings when seemingly on course to gain three points.
Relatively solid batting took rock-bottom BCL to 250 all out. Captain Randy Thomas scored 72 with ten threes and three fours as he and Dave Clarke (28) laid the foundation with a first wicket stand of 86.
Dwayne Lynch contributed 32 and Kamal Turney 30. Ramon Clarke took three for 27 and there were two wickets each for Ian Perryman, Jamal Smith and Robin Parris.
From an overnight 51 for one, Empire, minus batsmen Jason Haynes, Jason Parris and Shawn Graham and fast bowling all-rounder Ryan Nurse – all in the UWI team – looked like being led on first innings with the score at 216 for eight.
But BCL could not find the killer instinct and Perryman and Chesterfield Walcott, both better known for their fast bowling, took the score to 248 before Perryman fell for 29. Clarke then helped Walcott (27) to achieve the lead before the innings closed on 268.
Experienced middle order batsman Robin Parris hit 79 with seven fours and seven threes, former Barbados opener Mike Inniss, recalled to the side made 40 and captain Roland Holder 35.
Off-spinner Dwayne Lynch took four for 55 off 25.1 overs.
BCL were 79 for three in the second innings with Thomas scoring 38 and Jarvis Forde 27.
AT KENSINGTON OVAL: DWAYNE Smith lashed a brilliant second innings century to thwart Pickwick’s hopes of a win.
In his first match of the season after completing a professional contract in Britain, the free-scoring Smith made 145 in a total of 251 for four after YMPC were asked to follow-on with a deficit of 144.
Smith batted for just under two-and-a-half hours, faced 126 balls and slammed 19 fours and three sixes. He added 141 for the third wicket with William Lashley (25).
Captain Adrian Jones made 28, Jason Codrington 22 and Lonsdale Blake 21 not out. Left-arm spinner Ryan Hinds took three for 72.
Pickwick had made 231 after winning the toss. That total represented a significant recovery after they were tottering on 29 for four. It was set up by Ryan Hurley and Mike Matthews, who added exactly 100 for the fifth wicket.
Both were dismissed for 71 with the only other double-figure contributor being Joseph Harris with 40. Hurley batted a shade under two hours, received 65 deliveries and struck ten fours and two sixes while Matthews was at the crease for almost three hours during which he faced 117 balls and hit five fours and a six. Matthews and Harris put on 72 for the sixth wicket.
Off-spinner Wendell Coppin took four for 35 including the wicket of Hurley, who was caught and bowled. Left-arm pacer Dwayne Burke picked up three for 12.
Hurley crowned a fine day by grabbing two wickets as YMPC closed on 24 for three.
With the pressure sustained, YMPC fell for 87 with Coppin scoring 24 as off-spinner Hurley snared six for 36 off 24 overs and Hinds three for 35.
Then came Smith later in the day.
AT WEYMOUTH ‘A’: CARLTON took early control and then pushed Police in a corner before completing a ten-wicket win.
Police were let down by their batsmen after winning the toss, managing only 123. At one stage the score was 14 for five and then 42 for six as left-arm seamer Ryan “Vaas” Clarke enjoyed himself.
Veteran Kenrick Marshall, in his first match of the season after his annual pro season in England, made 33, batting at No. 8, and Brian Corbin 26. Clarke took four for 37, pacer Callitos Lopez, three for 15 and seamer Reunel Agard, two for 29.
Led by an unbeaten 62 from left-hander Kirk Gibson, Carlton closed the opening day on 190 for six. But their hopes of an even bigger lead were checked by left-arm spinner Sadiq Hill who took the last four wickets as the innings ended on 203.
Gibson scored 64 with six boundaries. Kurt Wilkinson made 44 and opener Jason Clarke 37 off only 23 balls. Hill took four for 29.
Police were putting up a fight at 111 for four before three wickets fell without a run scored and eventually they were bowled out for 138. Dwayne Brathwaite made 40 and his opening partner Stephen Herbert 23. Lopez grabbed four for 45.
Carlton took 11.5 overs to achieve their target of 59 as Jason Clarke scored 37 not out.
AT QUEEN’S PARK: IT was felt that if Spartan were to be halted from their merry march towards the title, St. Catherine would have to provide the answer at this critical juncture.
After all, St. Catherine were fresh from two consecutive wins, albeit against BCL and YMPC, and seemed to have renewed vigour. But they flattered to deceive.
Captain Derrick Bishop was missing from the St. Catherine team as a member of the UWI squad in camp for the Red Stripe Bowl, and Kenroy Williams took over.
By the close of the opening day, Spartan were in the ascendancy. After winning the toss, St. Catherine were bowled out for 119 with leg-spinner Dave Marshall grabbing seven wickets, and Spartan responded with 177 for five at stumps.
For St. Catherine, Dale Mason, who opened the batting, scored 25 and Dayne Maynard got 22 towards the end. Marshall took seven for 44 off 21 overs.
With the presence of the legendary Sir Garfield Sobers in the post-tea session as a special guest providing comments on play for VOB’s Sports Everywhere programme, Livy Puckerin, himself a legend at Spartan, stroked his way to an unbeaten 52 with four boundaries.
Kevin Stoute made 36, Wayne Blackman 28 and Dion Lovell 24.
Spartan opted to declare at the overnight total and before fans could take their Sunday lunch, St. Catherine were tottering on 48 for six.
Williams, who passed 500 runs for the season when he fell for six in the first innings, then led a partial recovery with Kayode Pantophlet as the pair added 22 before two wickets fell in quick succession.
It took a ninth wicket stand of 56 between Williams and fast bowler Jamal Noel (18) to prolong the inevitable.
Williams scored 52 not out in a total of 147 as left-arm spinner Sulieman Benn grabbed five for 54 off 25.3 overs.
Spartan knocked off their target of 90 in 16.1 overs, losing Wayne Blackman for 25. Corey Yearwood was unbeaten on 34 and Stoute 23.
AT DAYRELLS ROAD: IN a high-scoring match in which each team batted only once and scored over 300, Maple managed to gain first innings points just before the end with captain Donovan Lopez grabbing six wickets with his medium-pace.
Maple batted the entire first day to score 324 for eight and having declared overnight, they bowled Wanderers out for 316 in a tense battle.
Sean Armstrong hit 90 as he and Owen Birch, with 65, added 115 for the second wicket to give inspiration to the home team’s batting. The effort was then sustained by Avery Greene, who ran out of partners towards the end and finished with 51 not out.
Armstrong, a former Barbados cap, batted for 175 minutes. He faced 117 balls and struck 15 boundaries. Birch’s knock included seven fours and three sixes.
Phillip Aimey made 34 before he was run out and Hendy Bryan got 22. Lopez took six for 77 off 22 overs and left-arm pacer Anderson Holder polished off the innings to end with two for 49.
Maple’s innings was built around solid knocks, led by 60 from young Ricky Waldron and Khalid Springer’s unbeaten 52. Waldron and Andy Payne (43) put on 90 for the fifth wicket.
Jefferson Gibbons made 44, Prince Parris 37 and Kevin Payne 23. Off-spinner Andrew Emtage took three for 88 and discarded West Indies left-arm pacer Pedro Collins, two for 13.
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