At the close of yes­ter­day's rain-hit penul­ti­mate day at the Na­tion­al Sta­di­um here where on­ly 48 overs were pos­si­ble, Red Force were perched on 96 for two but still re­quir­ing a fur­ther 120 runs to make the hosts bat again.

The left-hand­ed Ra­jah, who made his first class de­but last month, stroked an en­ter­pris­ing 63 off 116 balls in 141 min­utes, with eight fours and one six.

He com­bined with open­er Kyle Hope (20 not out) in a sec­ond wick­et stand of 93 which pulled Red Force around from three for one when Im­ran Khan was lbw to fast bowler Keon Joseph for three in the third over of the in­nings.

Ra­jah, who made 69 on de­but against Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes at Queen's Park Oval, reached his sec­ond half-cen­tu­ry of the sea­son by dri­ving left-arm spin­ner Gu­dakesh Motie to the cov­er bound­ary.

The part­ner­ship ap­peared set to take Red Force strong­ly to the close when Ra­jah was caught at the wick­et off left-arm spin­ner Veerasam­my Per­maul off the first de­liv­ery of the day's fi­nal over.

Ear­li­er, Jaguars lost their last four wick­ets for 21 runs to be dis­missed for 378 in their first in­nings.

Vet­er­an left-han­der Shiv Chan­der­paul, un­beat­en on 141 overnight, added two runs while wick­et­keep­er An­tho­ny Bram­ble con­vert­ed his 18 not out at the start in­to 33.

Leg-spin­ner Im­ran Khan picked up four for 78 while left-arm spin­ner Khary Pierre claimed three for 50.

Per­sis­tent rain forced play to be aban­doned of play at Wind­sor Park

ROSEAU, Do­mini­ca � Play on the third day was aban­doned with­out a ball be­ing bowled be­tween Wind­ward Is­lands Vol­ca­noes and Bar­ba­dos Pride in the Dig­i­cel Re­gion­al 4-Day Tour­na­ment to­day, due to wet con­di­tions caused by rain.

Pride were set to re­sume from their overnight to­tal of 137 for six, but per­sis­tent show­ers through­out the morn­ing prompt­ed um­pires Joel Wil­son and Jonathan Blades to aban­don play for the day at Wind­sor Park, short­ly fol­low­ing a sched­uled 11 a.m. in­spec­tion.

On­ly 48.2 overs of play were pos­si­ble over the first two days of the match in the Do­mini­ca cap­i­tal, as the weath­er has dealt a blow to the two teams, aim­ing to ei­ther keep up or catch up with the front-run­ners.

Pride en­tered the match in third place in the stand­ings on 43.2 points and are yet to earn a point in the match. Vol­ca­noes were fifth on 35.2 points and have so far earned three from two bowl­ing points and one full pace-bowl­ing point.

Ja­cobs, Miller spin Scor­pi­ons to big vic­to­ry over­Hur­ri­canes

BAS­SETERRE, St. Kitts � Spin twins Damion Ja­cobs and Niki­ta Miller shared eight wick­ets to fol­low up pow­er­ful bat­ting that con­clud­ed with a third first-class hun­dred for De­von Thomas and spur Ja­maica Scor­pi­ons to an in­nings and 73-run vic­to­ry over Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes in the WICB Re­gion­al 4-Day Tour­na­ment on Sat­ur­day. (CMC)

Ja­cobs grabbed 5-64 from 18 overs to end with match fig­ures of 10 for 167 and Miller col­lect­ed 3-44, as the Hur­ri­canes, trail­ing by 307 on first in­nings, were bowled out for 234 in their sec­ond in­nings about an hour past the sched­uled close on the rain-marred third day of the day/night, fifth-round match at Warn­er Park.