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Sunday, July 6, 2025

Red Force takes charge of Hurricanes

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T&T Red Force is in prime po­si­tion to force an out­right vic­to­ry against the Lee­wards Hur­ri­canes in their eight round WICB PCL four-day clash at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre (NCC) in Bal­main Cou­va.

At the close of the third day's play, the Is­landers, bat­ting a sec­ond time and fac­ing a deficit of 181 runs on first in­nings, closed on 147/5 - still need­ing an­oth­er 34 runs to make T&T bat again.

T&T fin­ished their first in­nings strong­ly on 406 all out with half cen­turies by Im­ran Khan (82), Nars­ingh De­onar­ine (68) and Steven Kat­wa­roo (50).

The Lee­wards who made 225 in their first in­nings be­gan bright­ly with open­ers Montcin Hodge and Kacey Car­ty look­ing un­fussed in an open­ing part­ner­ship of 89 runs. How­ev­er, from the mo­ment one wick­et fell, oth­ers tum­bled and the score­card was not pret­ty read­ing there­after.

Pac­er Mar­lon Richards got the ini­tial break­through when he forced Hodge to edge to Evin Lewis at slip. He made 40 in 102 min­utes off 98 balls with two fours.

Soon af­ter, Car­ty the man who took West In­dies U-19 to the World Cup ti­tle in Bangladesh two weeks ago, fol­lowed him back in the hut. The right han­der looked classy dur­ing his maid­en First Class fifty but fell soon af­ter to Jon Russ Jagges­sar. His 59 which caught the eye of the small crowd on hand came in 135 min­utes, of 115 balls with nine fours.

T&T bowlers were on the hunt and quick­ly added the scalps of Daron Cruick­shank (4) and Jacques Tay­lor (0), as the Lee­wards were re­duced to 112/4. Be­fore the end skip­per Nkrumah Bon­ner fell to Im­ran Khan for 18 and the Lee­wards closed at 147/5.

T&T re­sumed on 264/6 and giv­en the depth of their bat­ting, front­line bats­man Nars­ingh De­onar­ine and wick­et­keep­er Steven Kat­wa­roo were still there bat­tling.

De­onar­ine who start­ed the day on 49, eas­i­ly moved on to this half cen­tu­ry and Kat­wa­roo, who played with pos­i­tive in­tent the day be­fore con­tin­ued. The two added 94 runs for the sev­enth wick­et be­fore the burly Corn­wall breached De­onar­ine's de­fence to give the Lee­wards their first smile of the day. De­onar­ine scored 68 off 240 balls in 166 min­utes with 10 fours.

Kat­wa­roo soon brought up his half cen­tu­ry but af­ter rais­ing his bat, tucked it un­der his arm and was off - caught and bowled Alzari Joseph for 50. He bat­ted for 119 min­utes, faced 81 balls, six of which he sent to the fence and one over it.

All rounder Rayad Em­rit took over and con­tin­ued the good work but with his score on 19 he turned for a sec­ond run and dam­aged his knee, forc­ing him to leave the ground. He would take no fur­ther part in the in­nings.

Last wick­et pair Mar­lon Richards and Jon Russ Jagges­sar al­so joined in the fun and added 64 runs be­fore the lat­ter left for 29. Richards was left un­beat­en on 29.

Off-spin­ner Corn­wall did the bulk of the work for the Lee­wards, send­ing down 41.1 overs in which time he was able to scalp five wick­ets for 88 runs.


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