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The 42-year-old was un­furled a su­perb un­beat­en 141, an in­nings which al­lowed the two-time reign­ing cham­pi­ons to pile up 357 for six in their first in­nings and dom­i­nate the sec­ond day of the Re­gion­al Four-Day con­test at the Na­tion­al Sta­di­um here.

He re­ceived sup­port from cap­tain Leon John­son who made 69 and Bar­ba­di­an all-rounder Ray­mon Reifer who chipped in with 38.

Leg-spin­ner Im­ran Khan was Red Force's best bowler with two for 70.

Head­ing in­to day three, Jaguars lead by 195 runs, leav­ing Red Force with a com­pli­cat­ed task of sal­vaging any­thing pos­i­tive from the game.

Re­sum­ing the day on nine with­out loss in re­ply to Red Force's 162, Jaguars lost both open­ers cheap­ly to slip to 45 for two.

Ra­jen­dra Chan­dri­ka edged the sec­ond ball of the morn­ing from pac­er Mar­lon Richards be­hind to fall for 12 with the score on 13 be­fore Shim­ron Het­my­er, who stroked five fours and a six in gath­er­ing a breezy 31 off 29 balls, pulled off-spin­ner Jon-Russ Jages­sar low to Yan­nic Cari­ah at mid-wick­et.

Three key part­ner­ships � two in­volv­ing Chan­der­paul � then hauled Jaguars back in­to the con­test.

John­son first put on 49 for the third wick­et with fel­low left-han­der Vishaul Singh who made 26, be­fore com­bin­ing with Chan­der­paul to add a fur­ther 141 for the fourth.

The knock was John­son's sec­ond half-cen­tu­ry of the sea­son and it came from 190 balls and in­clud­ed eight fours and two six­es while Chan­der­paul passed three fig­ures for the sec­ond straight game.

All told, Chan­der­paul has faced 220 de­liv­er­ies and count­ed 14 fours and a six.

He was un­beat­en on 29 at lunch with Jaguars on 136 for three and had worked his way to 83 not out at the sec­ond in­ter­val with the hosts on 243 for five.

Chan­der­paul reached his land­mark about 45 min­utes af­ter the re­sump­tion with a cou­ple to back­ward square off left-arm spin­ner Khary Pierre.

Red Force's best pe­ri­od came short­ly be­fore tea when they re­moved John­son and Chris Barn­well (3) in the space of 22 balls.

But Chan­der­paul dashed any hopes of ma­jor fur­ther suc­cess by an­chor­ing an 89-run, sixth wick­et part­ner­ship with Reifer, to add to Red Force's deep­en­ing woes.

CMC