Vin­ode Mam­chan

T&T Red Force was brought right down to earth af­ter their em­phat­ic win against the Wind­wards in the team's open­ing en­counter, by a bril­liant per­for­mance from the Bar­ba­dos Pride unit on the fourth and fi­nal day of their Dig­i­cel Pro­fes­sion­al Crick­et League clash at the Queen's Park Oval, yes­ter­day.

Chas­ing an im­prob­a­ble 392 runs to win the clash, the host start­ed the fi­nal day on 57 for three and ca­pit­u­lat­ed for an em­bar­rass­ing 99 all out - to lose the match by 242 runs with two ses­sions to spare.

Re­quir­ing an­oth­er 335 runs to win and three ses­sions to get the re­quired runs, Red Force, would have been look­ing sky­wards for as­sis­tance, but even the Gods were against them, as the rain did not come down to save them.

Re­sum­ing the day on 57 for three, Red Force lost their last six wick­ets for 42 runs � with open­er Je­re­my Solozano again un­able to bat be­cause of ill­ness.

Oth­er than Kyle Hope (26) and Yan­nic Cari­ah (25) who per­ished on Sun­day's third day, no oth­er bats­man made it in­to dou­ble fig­ures.

Pride were forced to wait un­til the eighth over of the morn­ing be­fore find­ing suc­cess when Roach had cap­tain Yan­nick Ot­t­ley, yet to score overnight, caught at the wick­et for two with the score on 64.

In the very next over, left-arm spin­ner Jomel War­ri­can had night­watch­man Mar­lon Richards caught at bat-pad for sev­en with­out any ad­di­tion to the over­all score, to leave Red Force reel­ing.

Debu­tant Jyd Goolie spent 46 min­utes and 26 balls be­fore he was bowled by Stoute who struck again in his next over by re­mov­ing Roshon Primus to a catch at the wick­et for two, at 80 for sev­en.

Wick­et­keep­er Steven Kat­wa­roo held out in the deep off pac­er Justin Greaves for eight be­fore lunch as the Red Force in­nings lay in ru­ins at 99 for eight at the in­ter­val.

And Roach ap­plied the fin­ish­ing touch­es im­me­di­ate­ly fol­low­ing the break when he bowled Jon-Russ Jagge­sar for three.

Pride's as­sault was led by cap­tain Kevin Stoute who snatched three for 14 while fel­low seam­er, Test bowler Ke­mar Roach, fin­ished with three 33.

For their ef­forts, Pride took away 18.4 points while Red Force mus­tered four.

T&T will now lick their wounds and come call­ing again on Fri­day, when they tack­le the Lee­wards Vol­ca­noes, again at the Queen's Park Oval from 10 am.

T&T Red Force vs Bar­ba­dos Pride

Pride 1st inns 242

Red Force 1st inns 168/9

Pride 2nd inns 317/2

Red Force 2nd inns

(overnight 57/3)

T&T Red Force in­nings

I Khan c Ram­per­saud b Roach 0

K Hope b Stoute 26

Y Car­ri­ah b Williams 25

M Richards c Phillips b War­ri­can 7

Y Ot­t­ley c Ram­per­saud b Roach 2

J Goolie b Stoute 9

S Kat­wa­roo c War­ri­can b Greaves 8

R Primus c Ram­per­saud b Stoute 2

S Cot­trell not out 8

J Jagges­sar b Roach 3

J Solozano in­jured out 0

Ex­tras 1b, 5lb, 3nb 9

To­tal all out 99

Fall of wk­ts:2, 50, 56, 64, 64, 78, 80, 88, 99, 99.

Bowl­ing:K Roach 12-4-33-3, J Greaves 11-5-23-1, R Chase 4-2-8-0, K Stoute 12-6-14-3, K Williams 5-2-5-1, J War­ri­can 8-4-10-1, N Charles 1-1-0-0.

Re­sult:Bar­ba­dos Pride won by 242 runs.

Man of the match:An­tho­ny Al­leyne.