GROS ISLET–The Wind­ward Is­lands Vol­ca­noes took first in­nings points from T&T Red Force at the close of the third day of their fifth round match in the WICB Pro­fes­sion­al Crick­et League at Beause­jour Crick­et Ground yes­ter­day.

Chas­ing the Wind­wards 400 for eight de­clared which was made one day ear­li­er, the Red Force nev­er showed the de­ter­mi­na­tion for a big score and fold­ed for 177. Fol­low­ing on some 223 be­hind, they closed on 6-0.

Re­sum­ing on 129 for five, they soon lost Stephen Kat­wa­roo, who re­sumed on 14. Af­ter adding just four, he was caught by De­von Smith off left-arm pac­er Ken­roy Pe­ters for 18.

T&T soon lost top­scor­er Yan­nick Cari­ah, who af­ter reach­ing his half cen­tu­ry was de­ceived by Shane Shilling­ford and fell for 50. He bat­ted some 164 min­utes and faced 115 balls. Cari­ah struck sev­en fours and one six in his knock.

But once he was dis­missed, none of the oth­er bats­men ap­plied them­selves and the in­nings fold­ed tame­ly. Shilling­ford al­so ac­count­ed for Im­ran Khan (0), and Shan­non Gabriel (11) to end with the su­per fig­ures of 11.4-1-42-3, while Pe­ters, who broke the back of the T&T in­nings with ear­ly wick­ets, was the out­stand­ing bowler, grab­bing 5-21 from his 18 overs.

Play yes­ter­day was de­layed un­til af­ter 4 p.m be­cause of rain and on­ly 29 overs were pos­si­ble.

T&T will be hop­ing for bad weath­er again to­day if they are to avoid an in­nings de­feat.

scores

?WIND­WARDS 400 for eight de­cl. (Ty­rone Theophile 136, Ked­dy Lesporis 83, Liam Se­bastien 56, Mervin Math­ew 40 not out, Ken­roy Pe­ters 32 not out; Im­ran Khan 3-97, Shan­non Gabriel 3-101)

T&T RED FORCE 177 and 6-0 (Yan­nick Cari­ah 50, Evin Lewis 28; Ken­roy Pe­ters 5-21, Shilling­ford 3-42)