Je­lani Beck­les

Al­though 29 ex­tras were gift­ed to T&T by the Com­bined Col­leges and Cam­pus­es (CCC) on the first half of the open­ing day in their four-day re­gion­al match at the Queen's Park Oval in Port-of-Spain, the match was even­ly poised with T&T on 81/3 at press time.It was an in­dis­ci­plined bowl­ing ef­fort from CCC, giv­ing away 15 no balls, four wides, six leg byes and four byes. Bar­ba­di­an fast bowler Dwayne Sealy was the main cul­prit, bowl­ing 12 no balls and two wides. The home team un­for­tu­nate­ly lost Evin Lewis due to a leg in­jury with the score on 13/0 af­ter two overs. Adri­an Barath's dis­mal sea­son con­tin­ued as he was dis­missed for 12 by Ray­mon Reifer, leav­ing T&T on 43/1.

A show­er then greet­ed the play­ers forc­ing the um­pires to take an ear­ly lunch at 4.45 pm, with Dar­ren Bra­vo on eight and Ja­son Mo­hammed not off the mark.Reifer grabbed his sec­ond wick­et short­ly af­ter lunch, as Bra­vo chopped a de­liv­ery on­to his stumps for 10. Kieron Pol­lard, who re­cent­ly re­turned to crick­et af­ter suf­fer­ing a knee in­jury, emerged from the pavil­ion. Pol­lard looked de­ter­mi­na­tion to play him­self in, but af­ter fac­ing 21 balls, Pol­lard was caught by wick­et-keep­er Chad­wick Wal­ton for a watch­ful four.Mo­hammed played his shots and was on 26 not out. Cap­tain Rayad Em­rit, who has shown some form with the bat in the tour­na­ment was on four. Left-arm fast bowler Ray­mon Reifer had fig­ures of 6-2-14-2, while spin bowler Akeem De­war got the wick­et of Pol­lard.

Score­board

T&T Red Force (1st In­nings)

A Barath c C Wal­ton b R Reifer 12

E Lewis re­tired hurt 0

D Bra­vo b R Reifer 10

J Mo­hammed not out 26

K Pol­lard c C Wal­ton b A De­war 4

R Em­rit (not out) 4

Still to bat: S Kat­wa­roo, I khan, S Gabriel, A Jag­ger­nauth, R Jaipaul

Ex­tras 15nb 4w 6lb 29

To­tal 85 for 3

Bowl­ing: D Sealy 6-0-35-0, J Levy 8-1-23-0, R Austin 1-1-0-0, R Reifer 6-2-14-2, A De­war 2.5-0-3-1

Fall of Wk­ts: 43, 56, 79

CCC SQUAD: Steven Ja­cobs (cap­tain), An­tho­ny Al­leyne, Sha­caya Thomas, Kyle Corbin, Ray­mon Reifer, Chad­wick Wal­ton, Kavem Hodge, Dwayne Sealy, Kevin Mc­Clean, Ryan Austin, Akeem De­war, Jomel War­ri­can, Jer­maine Levy.

Oth­er Scores:

Bar­ba­dos vs Ja­maica

At Sabi­na Park: Ja­maica won toss and field­ed.

BAR­BA­DOS 275 for six (Kirk Ed­wards 105, Shane Dowrich 40, Car­los Brath­waite 34, Kraigg Brath­waite 29) vs JA­MAICA

Wind­wards Is­lands vs Lee­wards Is­lands

At Queen's Park Sta­di­um: Lee­wards trail Wind­wards by 256 runs with nine wick­ets stand­ing.

WIND­WARDS 292 (Romel Cur­ren­cy 76, De­von Smith 47, Sunil Am­bris 53, Ked­dy Lesporis 30, Mervin Matthew 30, Ty­rone Theophile 27; Kier­an Pow­ell 3-38, Gavin Tonge 2-46, An­tho­ny Mar­tin 2-62, Yan­nick Leonard 2-74) LEE­WARDS 36 for one.