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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Jamaica holds edge despite blistering century from Pollard

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Na­tion­al bats­man Kieron Pol­lard struck his fourth first class hun­dred yes­ter­day on the open­ing day of T&T's match against Ja­maica at the Queen's Park Oval in St Clair, in the four-day re­gion­al tour­na­ment but Niki­ta Miller's four wick­ets gave the vis­i­tors the edge.Miller was Ja­maica's top bowler, grab­bing 4/78 with his off spin to dis­miss T&T for 244 in the first in­nings. Right-hand­ed Pol­lard seems to be back to full fit­ness, as he ral­lied T&T with a knock of 111 (169 balls). The West In­dies all­rounder, who re­cent­ly re­turned to ac­tion af­ter suf­fer­ing a knee in­jury, spent al­most four hours at the crease, hit­ting eight fours and six six­es.

T&T was in need of a part­ner­ship when Pol­lard joined open­ing bats­man Evin Lewis with the score on 58/3. The pair sur­vived the re­main­der of the morn­ing ses­sion, go­ing for lunch on 73/3 with left-hand­ed Lewis on 29 and Pol­lard on eight. Af­ter lunch, the pair pro­gressed to 129/3 at the drinks break with Lewis on 51 and Pol­lard on 41.In the sec­ond over af­ter the drinks break, Lewis was put down at gul­ly off Jerome Tay­lor's bowl­ing. Lewis' luck ran out short­ly af­ter, as he was caught at first slip for 63 to give Miller his first scalp, end­ing the 84-run part­ner­ship. Lewis hit nine fours in his 163-ball in­nings.Cap­tain Rayad Em­rit, who made an even 100 in the last round against the Com­bined Col­leges and Cam­pus­es, joined Pol­lard.Em­rit al­so rode his luck, dropped at mid-on on three. Right af­ter, Pol­lard got to his 50 with a shot through mid-on. Pol­lard and Em­rit took T&T to 176/4 at tea, end­ing a great ses­sion for the home team. In the sec­ond ses­sion, T&T added 103 runs with the loss of one wick­et.

Pol­lard switched to T20 mode af­ter tea, hit­ting Miller for three straight six­es, the third one get­ting T&T to 205/4. Pol­lard had now raced to 85.Un­for­tu­nate­ly for the home team, the score quick­ly be­came 206/7 as Em­rit (18), Stephen Kat­wa­roo (1) and Im­ran Khan (0) all fol­lowed each oth­er back to the pavil­ion. Miller led the Ja­maican fight, dimiss­ing Kat­wa­roo and Khan in con­sec­u­tive de­liv­er­ies.Pol­lard re­mained un­fazed, get­ting in­to the 90s with an­oth­er six off Miller, his sixth of the in­nings. Pol­lard got to his cen­tu­ry (101) with a loose four through the point re­gion.Pol­lard found an able part­ner in Mar­lon Richards as the pair led a mi­nor re­cov­ery. But as soon as the part­ner­ship be­gan to look sol­id, Richards was run out by a di­rect hit from Jon Ross Camp­bell for eight. Pol­lard was even­tu­al­ly the sec­ond to last man dis­missed with the score on 240.Ja­maica faced sev­en overs be­fore the close, clos­ing on 24/0.

SCORE­BOARD

T&T 1st Inns

A Barath lbw b D Ja­cobs 26

E Lewis c Camp­bell b N Miller 63

D Bra­vo c Camp­bell b B Buchanan 10

J Mo­hammed lbw b B Buchanan 0

K Pol­lard c T Lam­bert b D Ja­cobs 111

R Em­rit c C Baugh Jr b J Black­wood 18

S Kat­wa­roo+ lbw b N Miller 1

I khan lbw b N Miller 0

M Richards run out (JR Camp­bell) 8

S Gabriel lbw b N Miller 2

R Jaipaul not out 2

Ex­tras 3lb 3

To­tal all out 244

Bowl­ing: J Tay­lor 17-4-46-0, B Buchanan 14.2-4-43-2, D Ja­cobs 20-4-61-2, N Miller 21.1-5-78-4, J Black­wood 7.4-2-13-1

Fall of Wk­ts: 37, 58, 58, 142, 205, 206, 206, 240, 240, 244

Ja­maica 1st inns

Jon Ross Camp­bell not out 12

John Camp­bell not out 10

Ex­tras 2nb 2

To­tal for 0 wk­ts 24

Still to bat: N Bon­ner, J Black­wood, T Lam­bert, A Mc­Carthy, C Baugh Jr+, D Ja­cobs, N Miller, J Tay­lor, B Buchanan

Bowl­ing: S Gabriel 4-0-19-0, M Richards 2-0-4-0, R Jaipaul 1-0-1-0

Oth­er Scores:

Guyana vs Lee­ward Is­lands

At Vi­vian Richards Crick­et Ground: Guyana bat­ted all day.

GUYANA 238 for nine (Leon John­son 110, An­tho­ny Bram­ble 28; An­tho­ny Mar­tin 4-48, Gavin Tonge 2-43, Yan­nick Leonard 2-51) vs LEE­WARD IS­LANDS.

CCC vs Wind­ward Is­lands

At Arnos Vale: Wind­wards trail by 208 runs

COM­BINED CAM­PUS­ES & COL­LEGES 225 (Kyle Corbin 71, Chad­wick Wal­ton 58) vs WIND­WARD IS­LANDS 17 with­out loss.


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