Naz Ya­coob

Debu­tant Derone Davis capped off a fine all-round per­for­mance to bowl T&T to first in­nings lead against de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Ja­maica, on the sec­ond day of Round One in the TCL Group West In­dies Un­der-19 Crick­et Chal­lenge, yes­ter­day at Gros Islet in St Lu­cia. Davis, a for­mer West In­dies Un­der-15 left-arm spin­ner who scored 44 on Thurs­day in T&T's to­tal of 250, bagged four wick­ets for 36 runs to help dis­miss the ti­tle-hold­ing Ja­maicans for 209. Lend­ing sup­port to Davis was pint-sized right-arm leg-spin­ner Kissoon­dath Ma­gram who grabbed two for 57. Bat­ting a sec­ond time T&T closed on 39 with­out loss to es­tab­lish an im­por­tant 80-run-lead with all their wick­ets in­tact. Teshawn Cas­tro (18) and Nicholas Alex­is (17) are the not out bats­men.

Ear­li­er, the Ja­maicans re­sumed on their bed­time po­si­tion of 37 for none and pushed on to 146 for two be­fore Davis ran through the mid­dle and low­er-or­der bat­ting. Lead­ing scor­ers were Pe­te Salmon with 55 which in­clud­ed five fours and one six off 174 balls and Paul Palmer with 43 from 66 de­liv­er­ies which con­tained six fours. At Beause­jour Crick­et Ground, Wind­ward Is­lands, trail­ing Bar­ba­dos by 58 runs on first in­nings, reached 72 for three at the close. Match­es end to­day.