The T&T Red Force was back to win­ning ways un­der new coach Mervyn Dil­lon as the T&T de­feat­ed lead­ers Guyana Jaguars by 93 runs on the third day of their West In­dies Four-day cham­pi­onship clash at the Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day.

Set 274 runs to win the en­counter, the Guyanese start­ed well but fell apart and crashed for 182 all out just be­fore the close of play. All the T&T bowlers con­tributed in a great all-around ef­fort that hand­ed Guyana its sec­ond loss of the sea­son af­ter suc­ces­sive vic­to­ries.

The on­ly bats­men that showed any fight were all-rounder Ra­mario Shep­perd with 50 off 58 balls, in­clud­ing sev­en fours and a six and open­er Chan­dra­paul Hem­raj who got 30.

Guyana had got­ten off to a good start with Hem­raj and Tag­nar­ine Chan­der­paul keep­ing the lo­cal bowlers at bay. They post­ed 44 runs for the first wick­et be­fore Hem­raj fell. Chan­der­paul was sol­id at the top and oc­cu­pied the crease for a long pe­ri­od. He faced 93 balls when re­turn­ing fast bowler Ravi Ram­paul trapped him leg be­fore for 19.

At 61/2 Guyana was in a spot of both­er and slipped fur­ther when off-spin­ner Bryan Charles sent back Vishaul Singh for a ‘duck’. The men from the land of many wa­ters then looked in the di­rec­tion of their skip­per Leon John­son for sal­va­tion. It was not to be as the left-han­der fell to Charles for 21 and from then on it was chal­leng­ing for the vis­i­tors.

T&T re­sumed on the overnight po­si­tion of 264 for five wick­ets and Guyana struck al­most im­me­di­ate­ly with Keemo Paul send­ing back the well set Ja­son Mo­hammed for 83. The right-han­der fell leg be­fore with the score at 270, end­ing an 89-run part­ner­ship with Im­ran Khan for the sixth wick­et. He faced 204 balls and struck nine fours in his best in­nings of the com­pe­ti­tion.

Paul and Ray­mond Reifer bowled well in tan­dem and soon af­ter Reifer ripped out Khan for 46, made off 103 balls with four fours. To­wards the end, Odean Smith the Ja­maican im­port lent bat to ball and count­ed a 33-ball, 27 that was spiced with four fours and a six. Reifer the left-arm seam­er was the pick of the bowlers with 4/67 while Paul end­ed with 4/81.

SCORES

T&T RED FORCE 108 (Keemo Paul 3-26, Clin­ton Pes­tano 3-37) and 317 (Ja­son Mo­hammed 83, Joshua Da Sil­va 49, Im­ran Khan 46, Je­re­my Solozano 45, Odean Smith 27; Ray­mon Reifer 4-64, Keemo Paul 4-81)

GUYANA JAGUARS 150 (Keemo Paul 66 not out, Ro­mario Shep­herd 23, Chan­dra­paul Hem­raj 22; Im­ran Khan 3-22, Ravi Ram­paul 2-34) and 182 (Ro­mario Shep­herd 50, Chan­dra­paul Hem­raj 30; Im­ran Khan 3-45, Bryan Charles 2-21)

Scor­pi­ons beat Hur­ri­canes by one wick­et

BAS­SETERRE, St Kitts – Ja­maica Scor­pi­ons de­feat­ed Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes by one wick­et on the penul­ti­mate day of their day/night sixth round match in the Re­gion­al Four-Day Cham­pi­onship at Warn­er Park, yes­ter­day.

SCORES

HUR­RI­CANES 204 (Jah­mar Hamil­ton 65, Rah­keem Corn­wall 33; Jerome Tay­lor 5-28) and 142 (Rah­keem Corn­wall 44 not out, Jah­mar Hamil­ton 41, Ter­rance Warde 29; Jerome Tay­lor 4-31, Rov­man Pow­ell 3-43)

SCOR­PI­ONS 190 (Jer­maine Black­wood 69; Damion Ja­cobs 5-42) and 157 for nine (As­sad Fu­dadin 36, Chad­wick Wal­ton 27, Ken­roy Williams 21 not out; Damion Ja­cobs 6-62, Rah­keem Corn­wall 3-50)

Pride made to fol­low-on

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Bar­ba­dos Pride, fol­low­ing on by 217 runs, reached 157 for six in their sec­ond in­nings at the close on the third day of their sixth round match in the Re­gion­al Four-Day Cham­pi­onship at Kens­ing­ton Oval, yes­ter­day.

SCORES

WIND­WARD IS­LANDS VOL­CA­NOES 470-8 de­cl. (De­von Smith 199, Sunil Am­bris 79, De­nis Smith 66, Kirk Ed­wards 39, Roland Cato 29; Shamar Springer 2-72, Miguel Cum­mins 2-78)

BAR­BA­DOS PRIDE 253 (Jonathan Carter 64, Aaron Jones 42, Tevyn Wal­cott 31, Shayne Mose­ley 27; Lar­ry Ed­ward 5-67, Joshua Thomas 3-41, Ray Jor­dan 2-45) and 157 for six (Shayne Mose­ley 51, Aaron Jones 39; Lar­ry Ed­ward 2-42, Kavem Hodge 2-59)