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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Andrew cracks maiden List A hundred in vain

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Sport Desk
391 days ago
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FILE - Jewel Andrew...scored his maiden List A hundred (143).

FILE - Jewel Andrew...scored his maiden List A hundred (143).

MAGHERA­MA­SON, Ire­land – A bound­ary-stud­ded, maid­en List A hun­dred from Jew­el An­drew failed to spur the Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Acad­e­my, and hosts Emerg­ing Ire­land took an un­beat­able 2-0 lead in their three-match, One-day se­ries with a nail-bit­ing one-wick­et win off the penul­ti­mate ball on Wednes­day.

The 17-year-old An­tiguan wick­et­keep­er-bats­man raised his pro­file with a run-a-ball 143 af­ter the CWI Acad­e­my were put in to bat, and they set Emerg­ing Ire­land 279 to win the 50 overs-a-side match at the Bready Crick­et Club.

West In­dies Un­der-19 pac­er Jo­hann Layne was the pick of the Caribbean side’s bowlers tak­ing three wick­ets – all in the fi­nal five overs – for 55 from his al­lot­ted 10 overs, and Emerg­ing Ire­land en­tered the fi­nal over with one wick­et stand­ing and 11 re­quired to win.

But CWI Acad­e­my cap­tain Ny­eem Young let his side down when he con­ced­ed 15 from the fi­nal over to Matthew Humphreys, not out on 39, in­clud­ing a six off the third ball, and a six off the penul­ti­mate ball to con­cede vic­to­ry to the Irish.

The Caribbean side had lost by six wick­ets on Tues­day at Eglin­ton in the first match of the se­ries and they will be hop­ing to fin­ish the se­ries strong on Fri­day at Bready be­fore the two teams play a pair of four-day, first-class match­es, start­ing on June 18 at North Down and June 25 at Stor­mont.

CWI Acad­e­my were wob­bling on 24 for two af­ter Liam Mc­Carthy bowled Ac­k­eem Au­guste for a sec­ond-ball duck in the sec­ond over, and fel­low open­er Leonar­do Julien for 18 in the sixth over.

An­drews slammed 12 fours and sev­en six­es from 141 balls and shared three half-cen­tu­ry stands along the way that were the rocks up­on which the Caribbean side built their to­tal of 278 for eight from their al­lo­ca­tion of 50 overs.

An­drews added 73 for the third wick­et with Ted­dy Bish­op; 65 for the fifth wick­et with fel­low Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes prospect Car­lon Bowen-Tuck­ett, son of for­mer Lee­wards and West In­dies all-rounder turned um­pire Carl Tuck­ett; and 101 for the sixth wick­et with Young.

The West In­dies Un­der-19 glove­man reached his hun­dred from 114 balls and was the prin­ci­pal rea­son that the vis­i­tors added 123 dur­ing the sec­ond Pow­er Play be­fore he fell off the last ball of the penul­ti­mate over, try­ing to bring the in­nings to a flour­ish­ing close.

Bish­op made 19 be­fore he was lbw to leg-spin­ner Gavin Hoey in the 19th over, Tuck­ett made 20 be­fore he was run out in the 36th over, and Young hit five six­es in 54 off 46 balls be­fore falling with four balls re­main­ing.

The CWI Acad­e­my bowlers kept Emerg­ing Ire­land to 37 for one in the first Pow­er Play af­ter Young bowled open­er Jake Egan for 11 in the eighth over, and the hosts were 63 for two in the 15th over when Cade Carmichael was run out for 16.

The vis­i­tors met re­sis­tance when De Fre­itas, whose 84 off 108 balls was the top score, and Top­ping hit his sec­ond half-cen­tu­ry of 53 off 73 balls, and they shared ex­act­ly 100 for the third wick­et to sta­bilise the Emerg­ing Ire­land chase.

Young got De Fre­itas in the 34th over and left-arm spin­ner Joshua Bish­op bowled Scott Mac­Beth in the 40th over, and Emerg­ing Ire­land re­quired 94 in the fi­nal 10 overs, an equa­tion that be­came more dif­fi­cult when left-arm pac­er Ra­mon Sim­monds struck twice in three balls in the 45th over.

The match ap­peared to shift in favour of CWI Acad­e­my when Layne al­so struck twice in the 46th over, and again in the 48th over, and Emerg­ing Ire­land was tee­ter­ing on 240 for nine, but the un­think­able hap­pened when Sim­monds pulled up lame and An­drew had to fin­ish the over.

An­drew is more known for his wick­et­keep­ing, rather than his bowl­ing, and he con­ced­ed a four, a deuce, and a six to Humphreys off the three balls he bowled be­fore the Emerg­ing Ire­land No. 10 ush­ered his side over the fin­ish line.

Young end­ed with two for 67 from 9.5 overs, and Sim­monds had two for 50 from 9.3 overs be­fore he broke down.

The se­ries is part of a rec­i­p­ro­cal agree­ment be­tween Crick­et Ire­land and CWI af­ter the Emerg­ing Ire­land squad vis­it­ed the Caribbean in No­vem­ber-De­cem­ber last year.

CMC

Scores:

CWI ACAD­E­MY 278 for eight off 50 overs (Jew­el An­drew 143, Ny­eem Young 54, Car­lon Bowen-Tuck­ett 20; Liam Mc­Carthy 3-80, Thomas Mayes 2-65).

EMERG­ING IRE­LAND 282 for nine off 49.5 overs (Christo­pher De Fre­itas 84, Mor­gan Top­ping 53, Matthew Humphreys 39 not out; Jo­hann Layne 3-55, Ra­mon Sim­monds 2-50, Ny­eem Young 2-67).

Emerg­ing Ire­land won by one wick­et.

CMC


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