On­tario, Cana­da–A su­perb bowl­ing ef­fort by Ja­son Hold­er was not enough as the Sagi­cor West In­dies High Per­for­mance Cen­tre went down by three wick­ets to Cana­da, in their Cana­di­an Sum­mer Fes­ti­val tri-na­tion 50-over match yes­ter­day. Af­ter his side was bowled out for 118, the 18-year-old pac­er took three wick­ets for nine runs from his 10 overs to rip the heart out of the home side's mid­dle or­der at the Mal­ton SCG. Stand­ing six-feet-sev­en-inch­es, Hold­er was able to get the ball to move both ways and he pro­duced a su­perb ef­fort as Cana­da slipped from 42-1 to 76-6.

He was well back up by speed­ster Shan­non Gabriel, who topped 90 miles per hour con­sis­tent­ly and rat­tled the Cana­di­ans. He end­ed with 1-33 from 10 overs, while left-arm spin­ner Veerasam­my Per­maul was ac­cu­rate and bagged 1-10 from his 10 overs. The bat­ting hero for Cana­da was Jim­my Han­sra, who fin­ished on 30 not out. He played a sen­si­ble knock and did an ex­cel­lent job of shep­herd­ing the low­er or­der. Ear­li­er in the in­nings open­er Ni­tish Ku­mar laid the foun­da­tion with a dogged 24 from 92 balls, but he was un­done by a smart piece of bowl­ing from Hold­er.

In the first half of the match, the Sagi­cor HPC failed with the bat be­ing dis­missed with sev­en hours still left. The top­score came from open­er Ra­jen­dra Chan­dri­ka, who made 28 from 66 balls in a morn­ing ses­sion where the bats­men found scor­ing very dif­fi­cult. Ash­ley Nurse, who was draft­ed in­to the squad, made 18 from 20 balls, while Nkrumah Bon­ner, got 18 but it re­quired 57 balls. Cana­da's best bowler was cap­tain Rizwan Cheema, who took 4-20 from his sev­en overs as the low­er or­der col­lapsed, while Parth De­sai took 2-18 from his ten overs. The next match for the Sagi­cor HPC is a T20 con­test against Bermu­da on Sat­ur­day.