T&T bowlers put Leewards in a spin

The spin trio of Imran Khan, Amit Jaggernauth and Yannick Cariah gave T&T first innings points over the Leeward Islands yesterday on the second day of their regional four-day clash at Warner Park in St Kitts. 

The combination proved too tricky for the home team, grabbing all ten wickets, as the visitors took a lead of 85 runs on first innings, which they extended to 125 by the close.

Replying to T&T’s 279, the home team were spun out for 194 and T&T reached 40 for the loss of Justin Guillen’s (0) wicket, going into the third day today.

Guillen was caught at backward point, but Adrian Barath, who sounded a return to form with 58 in the first innings, weathered the storm to end the day on 25 not out and with him was Evin Lewis who was unbeaten on 14.

T&T resumed on the overnight position of 254 for eight and their innings ended for the addition of just 25 runs. 

Wicketkeeper Stephen Katwaroo 54 not out overnight was able to add just one run to his total before he was run out. Ravi Rampaul stayed to the end and was the last man dismissed for 27. 

Quinton Boatswain was the Leewards’ best bowler, grabbing 4-75, and Gavin Tonge 2-52. 

The Leewards then took to the crease and had a promising start in the blistering sun before T&T captain Rayad Emrit introduced his spinning trio and they undermined the Islanders’ batting with their guile.

Khan got generous turn with his leg-spinners and troubled the Leewards top-order. Off-spinner Jaggernauth was very tight at the other end and gave nothing away. With this pressure building the Leewards batsmen started to play injudicious shots which resulted in their downfall.

They quickly slipped to 95 for five and was only able to post their eventual 194 thanks to a solid 68 by skipper Sylvester Joseph. Apart from him the only other men to hang around were Montcin Hodge 24 and Austin Richards Jr 28. 

Khan ended with 4/62, while Jaggernauth picked up 3/39 and the equally impressive Yannic Cariah grabbed 3/35.

With the pitch favouring the slow bowlers more and more as the match progresses, T&T will be looking to set the home team a target of around 300 and then let their spinners loose.

Play resumes at 10 am.

Scoreboard

Leeward Islands v T&T  

T&T 1st Inns

A Barath c Peters b Boatswain     58
J Guillen c and b Boatswain     4
E Lewis c Martin b Boatswain     2
K Ottley c Liburd b Willett     13
I Khan run out     3
Y Ottley lbw b Tonge     58
R Emrit c Boatswain b Tonge     17
Y Cariah c Joseph b Boatswain     8
S Katwaroo run out     55
R Rampaul c Joseph b Tonge     27
A Jaggernauth not out     5
Extras (b13, lb14, w2)     28
TOTAL (all out, 102 overs)     279
Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-20, 3-89, 4-98, 5-98, 6-124, 7-146, 8-236, 9-255, 10-279.
Bowling: Tonge 20-4-57-3, Boatswain 24-4-82-4, Willett 12-1-41-1, Martin 31-15-45-0, Joseph 14-3-21-0, Richards 1-0-6-0.

LEEWARDS 1st Inns

A Richards Jr c Emrit b Jaggernauth     28
M Hodge c Katwaroo b Imran Khan     24
O Peters lbw b Imran Khan     30
S Joseph b Jaggernauth     68
D Thomas b Jaggernauth     0
J Hamilton b Imran Khan     3
T Willett lbw b Cariah     18
L Joseph c Lewis b Cariah     13
G Tonge c Emrit b Cariah     8
A Martin c and b Imran Khan     12
Q Boatswain not out     0
Extras (b4, lb2, nb7)     13
TOTAL (all out, 102 overs)     194
Fall of wickets: 1-58, 2-58, 3-71, 4-80, 5-95, 6-128, 7-148, 8-164, 9-194, 10-194.
Bowling: Rampaul 9-0-34-0, Emrit 8-2-18-0, Imran Khan 21.3-5-64-4, Jaggernauth 17-4-39-3, Cariah 10-3-35-3.

T&T 2nd Inns

A Barath not out     25
J Guillen c Joseph b Boatswain     0
E Lewis not out     14
Extras (w1)     1
TOTAL (1 wkt, 13 overs)     40
Fall of wicket: 1-6.
Bowling: Tonge 6-3-18-0, Boatswain 6-3-18-1, Joseph 1-0-4-0.
Position: T&T lead by 125 runs overall.

OTHER SCORES: 

At the Three Ws Oval: COMBINED CAMPUSES & COLLEGES 109 all out (Kyle Corbin 26, Shacaya Thomas 21; Chris Jordan 7-43, Ashley Nurse 2-30)
BARBADOS 365 for nine (Kirk Edwards 109, Kraigg Brathwaite 90, Shane Dowrich 51 not out, Rashidi Boucher 23, Jason Holder 20; Akeem Dewar 7-114 )

At Arnos Vale Complex: Guyana trail by 76 runs overall with eight second innings wickets intact.
GUYANA 151 all out (Assad Fudadin 55, Rajindra Chandrika 25, Leon Johnson 23; Shane Shillingford 4-40, Liam Sebastien 3-21, Delorn Johnson 3-43) and 49 for two (Tagenarine Chanderpaul 29 not out)
WINDWARD ISLANDS 276 (Keddy Lesporis 39, Devon Smith 38, Liam Sebastien 35, Lyndon James 31, Kenroy Peters 27, Dalton Polius 24; Devendra Bishoo 5-67, Leon Johnson 2-18)