1 Mid­dle or­der bats­man Ja­son Mo­hammed was the man that stood be­tween T&T and Wind­wards as he scored 73 to save his team's blush­es on the open­ing day of their Re­gion­al Four-day clash at the Queen's Park Oval yes­ter­day.Scores: T&T 222 all out vs Wind­wards 12 with­out loss.Pac­er De­lorn John­son and spin­ner Al­ston Bobb were the chief de­stroy­ers grab­bing nine wick­ets be­tween them as the home team bat­ting first on be­ing sent in made 222 all out. At the close of play, the Wind­wards had reached 12 with­out loss in front of a hand­ful of fans.

Mo­hammed, who showed good form in the Four-day tri­al match­es con­tin­ued his good work af­ter T&T had lost two ear­ly wick­ets in Evin Lewis (2) and Dar­ren Bra­vo. Mo­hammed found a will­ing part­ner in open­er Adri­an Barath and they showed the pa­tience that man­ag­er Manohar Ram­saran has been call­ing for.They bat­ted sen­si­bly in tak­ing the score from 17 for two to 85 be­fore Barath fell to John­son. He made 39 from 103 balls in 133 min­utes of bat­ting, in which time he stroked six fours. At the fall of Barath's wick­et, Mo­hammed forged an­oth­er use­ful part­ner­ship of 55 runs with wick­et­keep­er/bats­men Steven Kat­wa­roo. In the process he brought up his half cen­tu­ry off 102 balls in 132 min­utes with eight fours. Just as these two were look­ing to push on fur­ther, Kat­wa­roo fell for 20 off 67 balls. And for the ad­di­tion of a soli­tary run, main­stay Mo­hammed fol­lowed him for his 73. In the end his fig­ures read 202 min­utes, 164 balls, 10 fours.

Af­ter his dis­missal it was down­hill for T&T, de­spite lit­tle cameos from skip­per Rayad Em­rit 28, all rounder Yan­nic Cari­ah 24 and pac­er Mar­lon Richards 15. The left-hand­ed John­son, who plays for the T&T Red Steel in the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL), fin­ished with 5/48 off 17.4 overs, while Bobb took 4/53 off 22 prob­ing overs.Wick­et­keep­er Lyn­don James had a very pro­duc­tive day snar­ing five catch­es and a stump­ing.Wind­wards closed on 12 with­out loss and when play re­sumes to­day, they will need a fur­ther 211 to take first in­nings points. Play on the sec­ond day to­day re­sumes at 10am.

SCORE­BOARD

TT vs WIND­WARDS

TT inns

A Barath c James b John­son 39

E Lewis lbw Pas­cal 2

D Bra­vo c James b Pas­cal 1

J Mo­hammed c Cur­ren­cy b Bobb 73

S Kat­wa­roo st James b Bobb 20

I Khan c James b Bobb 4

A Ho­sein c Lesporis b Bobb 7

Y Cari­ah c James b John­son 24

R Em­rit b John­son 28

M Richards c James b John­son 15

S Gabriel not out 2

Ex­tras nb 3, w1, lb3 7

To­tal all out 222

Fall of wk­ts: 8, 17, 85, 140, 141, 150, 153, 204, 307, 222.

Bowl­ing: N Pas­cal 9-1-27-1, D John­son 17.4-5-48-5, K Pe­ters 16-6-34-0, A Bobb 22-2-53-4, L Se­bastien 15-5-39-0, D Polius 6-1-18-0.

Wind­wards inns

D Smith not out 8

T Theophile not out 4

Ex­tras 0

To­tal for no wk­ts 12

Bowl­ing: S Gabriel 1-0-8-0, M Richards 1-0-4-0.

At Guyana Na­tion­al Sta­di­um: Bar­ba­dos 76/4 (Ros­ton Chase 37 no, Kraigg Brath­waite 19) vs Guyana At Warn­er Park: Lee­ward Is­lands 101/2 (Kier­an Pow­ell 72 no) vs Ja­maica