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Friday, July 4, 2025

Red Force battles to stop Volcanoes

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The T&T Red Force bowlers will have to be at their best to avoid de­feat to­day, af­ter Wind­ward Is­lands spin bowler Liam Se­bastien ran through the T&T sec­ond in­nings in the last round of the Re­gion­al Four-Day tour­na­ment at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre in Cou­va, yes­ter­day.

Re­sum­ing on 33/1 yes­ter­day in the sec­ond in­nings still trail­ing the Wind­ward Is­lands Vol­ca­noes by 45 runs, Se­bastien snatched 5/63 in 34.1 overs as T&T was dis­missed for 243.

Chas­ing 166 for vic­to­ry, the Wind­wards closed day three on 8/0 with De­von Smith and Ty­rone Theophille both un­beat­en on four. The Vol­ca­noes may be con­fi­dent of chas­ing down the tar­get af­ter Smith and Theophille put on 163 for the first wick­et in the first in­nings be­fore be­ing dis­missed for 289.

The T&T top or­der failed again to show any re­silience as they were re­duced to 54/4 in the first ses­sion. Debu­tant Ewart Nichol­son was gone for two to give cap­tain Se­bastien his first scalp of the day, be­fore West In­dies bats­man Dar­ren Bra­vo was caught by wick­et­keep­er Sunil Am­bris off Kyle May­ers to re­duce T&T to 42/3. Nars­ingh De­onar­ine, who scored an un­beat­en 91 in the first in­nings, was trapped leg be­fore for sev­en to give Se­bastien an­oth­er wick­et. In the first in­nings T&T was re­duced to 46/4 be­fore some low­er or­der re­sis­tance helped T&T to a re­spectable 211 all out.

Bar­ba­di­an Kyle Hope, who scored back-to-back half cen­turies in the pre­vi­ous match, shared in a 69-run fifth wick­et part­ner­ship with Red Force cap­tain Yan­nick Ot­t­ley. The pair took the score to 123 be­fore Hope be­came Se­bastien's next vic­tim for 57. Hope slammed sev­en fours and one six in his 143-ball knock. When wick­et­keep­er Steven Kat­wa­roo fell for three and Ot­t­ley lost his wick­et for 55 T&T was re­duced to 164/7. Ot­t­ley's in­nings last­ed 147 balls and in­clud­ed sev­en fours.

Im­ran Khan and Rayad Em­rit then bat­tled hard to take T&T past 200 with an eighth wick­et part­ner­ship of 53 dom­i­nat­ed by Khan. Khan be­came Se­bastien's fifth wick­et with the score on 217. More low­er or­der fight took T&T to 243 all out, but the home team's lead was on­ly 165 runs. Theophille was al­so among the wick­ets tak­ing 2/26.


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