Je­lani Beck­les

An­oth­er stut­ter­ing start by the T&T top or­der and more sol­id bat­ting from Guyana led by vet­er­an Shiv­nar­ine Chan­der­paul left T&T with all to do head­ing in­to to­day's fi­nal day of the West In­dies Crick­et Board Pro­fes­sion­al Four-Day Crick­et League at the Queen's Park Oval in Port-of-Spain.

T&T lost the wick­ets of Je­re­my Solozano (one) and Yan­nic Cari­ah (16) late yes­ter­day to leave the home team on 51/2 in the sec­ond in­nings, still trail­ing Guyana by 214 runs. At the crease for T&T is Kyle Hope on 22 and Nars­ingh De­onar­ine on ten.

Ear­li­er, Guyana con­tin­ued where it left off on Sat­ur­day strolling to a mam­moth 475 all out be­hind a cen­tu­ry from As­sad Fu­dadin and half cen­turies from Chan­der­paul, Christo­pher Barn­well and Ray­mon Reifer.

The T&T play­ers seemed to be go­ing through the mo­tions, hop­ing for the Guyanese bats­men to make mis­takes.

Chan­der­paul, who on­ly post­ed one half cen­tu­ry for the sea­son be­fore yes­ter­day, made a sol­id 82 off 182 balls, lash­ing sev­en fours. Fel­low left-han­der As­sad Fu­dadin got to 102 af­ter be­ing un­beat­en on 94 overnight. Fu­dadin's fifth first class cen­tu­ry com­prised 257 balls with sev­en fours and two six­es.

How­ev­er, the part­ner­ship that took the match away from T&T was a 124-run sixth wick­et part­ner­ship be­tween Barn­well and Reifer. The pair was nev­er un­der pres­sure, as­sist­ed by some in­dis­ci­plined bowl­ing from the home team. The spin duo of Im­ran Khan and Kavesh Kan­tas­ingh, who have both had sol­id per­for­mances this sea­son, failed to make an im­pact.

Des­per­ate for a wick­et T&T cap­tain Ja­son Mo­hammed brought on leg spin­ner Yan­nic Cari­ah for Kan­tas­ingh but that move al­so proved fu­tile. Mo­hammed used eight bowlers. Af­ter post­ing his half cen­tu­ry, Barn­well in­creased the scor­ing rate pun­ish­ing Cari­ah for some short bowl­ing as the T&T play­ers looked like a lost bunch.

Af­ter Guyana got to 442/5 at tea, T&T got a wel­come spark from part time spin­ner Yan­nick Ot­t­ley bowl­ing his first spell of the match. In quick suc­ces­sion Ot­t­ley got the prized wick­et of Barn­well for 79 off 98 balls (11 fours) caught in the cov­ers, then dis­missed An­tho­ny Bram­ble (duck) and Rons­ford Beat­on (two). Reifer was stumped for 64 off 184 de­liv­er­ies (five fours) off De­onar­ine as Guyana was re­duced to 458/9.

Ot­t­ley was the best bowler fin­ish­ing with 3/17 in sev­en overs, while De­onar­ine (2/80) and Khan (2/114) both end­ed with two wick­ets.

SCORE­BOARD

T&T Red Force 1st inns 210

Guyana Jaguars (o/n 233/3)

Shim­ron Het­myre lbw b M Richards 7

As­sad Fu­dadin c S Kat­wa­roo b U Muham­mad 102

Leon John­son b N De­onar­ine 92

Vishaul Singh run out (U Muham­mad) 16

Shiv­nar­ine Chan­der­paul lbw b I Khan 82

Ray­mon Reifer st S Kat­wa­roo b N De­onar­ine 64

Christo­pher Barn­well c (sub) b Y Ot­t­ley 79

An­tho­ny Bram­ble+ c K Hope b Y Ot­t­ley 0

Veerasam­my Per­maul c J Mo­hammed b I Khan 10

Rons­ford Beat­on c U Muham­mad b Y Ot­t­ley 2

Gu­dakesh Motie not out 15

Ex­tras 1b 5lb 6

To­tal all out 475

Bowl­ing: Mar­lon Richards 23-6-68-1, Uth­man Muham­mad 21-7-65-1, Ja­son Mo­hammed 17-7-29-0, Nars­ingh De­onar­ine 33-8-80-2, Im­ran Khan 29.1-0-114-2, Kavesh Kan­tas­ingh 31-5-81-0, Yan­nic Car­ri­ah 4-1-15-0, Yan­nick Ot­t­ley 7-4-17-3

Fall of Wk­ts: 1-10, 2-148, 3-183, 4-249, 5-323, 6-447, 7-447, 8-451, 9-458, 10-475

T&T Red Force 2nd Inns

Je­re­my Solozano lbw b R Reifer 1

Kyle Hope not out 22

Yan­nic Cari­ah c S Het­my­er b V Per­maul 16

Nars­ingh De­onar­ine not out 10

Ex­tras 2lb 2

To­tal (for 2 wk­ts) 51

Bowl­ing: Rons­ford Beat­on 6-2-22-0, Ray­mon Reifer 4-2-10-1, Veerasam­my Per­maul 6-3-6-1, Gu­dakesh Motie 3-0-11-0

Fall of Wk­ts: 1-5, 2-32

Oth­er match­es

Pride on top of Vol­ca­noes

Scores: PRIDE 296 & 261 for 7 dec

VOL­CA­NOES 179 & 40/0