BRIDGETOWN – Test wicketkeeper Shane Dowrich and veteran Jonathan Carter defied Guyana Jaguars with gutsy half-centuries but Barbados Pride still conceded a significant first innings lead, setting up an intriguing final day of their third round match in the Regional Four-Day Championship in Barbados.
Pride, resuming yesterday’s penultimate day on 33 for one, batted the entire day before being dismissed on the stroke of close for 360 – behind by 188 runs.
Dowrich stroked a classy 81 and Carter, 68, while Test skipper Jason Holder struck 44 and Test opener Kraigg Brathwaite, 43.
Captain Shamarh Brooks chipped in with 34 but Pride never got the big hundred they needed as Jaguars made key strikes at critical periods throughout the day.
Veteran left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul spearheaded the Jaguars attack with four for 124, including the key wickets of Carter and Test star Roston Chase (1), while left-arm seamer Raymon Reifer (2-36) and pacer Clinton Pestano (2-53) supported well.
Having lost Shayne Moseley to the final ball of the previous day, Pride consolidated early through a 73-run, second wicket stand between Brathwaite and Brooks.
Brathwaite, short of runs with the England Test series approaching, struck seven fours off 103 deliveries while Brooks faced 52 balls and also counted seven fours.
However, Permaul got the breakthrough when he removed Brooks to a catch at slip by captain Leon Johnson and Pride slumped, losing three wickets for 17 runs.
Chase fell in identical fashion, cutting at Permaul and when Brathwaite, unbeaten on 11 at the start, was lbw to one from Pestano that kept low, the hosts were struggling on 123 for four.
Dowrich and Carter then combined in an excellent 141-run, fifth wicket stand which carried Pride to lunch on 164 for four, and gave them the upper hand in the second session.
The right-handed Dowrich, in his first match since his return from international duty, struck 11 fours and two sixes off only 113 balls in just over 2-¼ hours while Carter faced 127 balls in 3-¼ hours and counted nine fours, to notch his third half-century in as many matches.
However, Pride suffered a massive setback when both fell inside the last 20 minutes before tea. Dowrich pulled medium pacer Sherfane Rutherford to Permaul at mid-wicket and two overs later, Carter was bowled by one from Permaul which crept.
On 278 for six at tea, Pride were kept afloat by Holder, who put on 42 for the seventh wicket with Windies teammate Ashley Nurse who made 19.
Once Nurse missed a sweep at Permaul and was lbw, Pride lost their last four wickets for 45 runs, with Holder ninth out – caught at slip by Johnson off Reifer after facing 87 deliveries and striking six fours.
Scorpions hold edge after topsy-turvy day
KINGSTON – Fifteen wickets tumbled on day two of the Regional Four-Day Championship contest here Saturday but Jamaica Scorpions held the upper hand over Windward Islands Volcanoes heading into yesterday’s third day of the topsy-turvy day/night affair at Sabina Park, Jamaica.
Resuming the day on 34 for one in reply to Scorpions’ first innings of 210, Volcanoes were bundled out for a paltry 113, to concede a lead of 97 runs.
They were undermined by West Indies all-rounder Rovman Powell who used his medium pace to good effect to snatch five for 23 while international teammate Oshane Thomas picked up two for 37.
Captain Kirk Edwards top-scored with 29 and Roland Cato got 23 but no other batsman passed 15.
In their second turn at the crease, Scorpions also struggled despite a top score of 35 from Test batsman Jermaine Blackwood and an unbeaten 31 from Assad Fudadin.
The hosts were in early trouble when they lost left-hander John Campbell without scoring to the third ball of the innings. And when Chadwick Walton perished for 12 soon afterwards, Scorpions were 32 for two.
However, Blackwood and Fudadin combined in a 36-run, third wicket stand to steady the innings.
Left-arm spinner Larry Edwards (2-21) eventually bowled Blackwood, leading to a slump where Scorpions lost five wickets for 58 runs, as the innings declined.
The new-ball pair of Sherman Lewis (2-19) and Josh Thomas (2-32) also helped hurt the innings with two wickets apiece.
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Scores:
At Kensington Oval
GUYANA JAGUARS 548 (Chandrapaul Hemraj 144, Anthony Bramble 130 not out, Raymon Reifer 75, Sherfane Rutherford 54, Tagenarine Chanderpaul 37; Ashley Nurse 4-122)
BARBADOS PRIDE 360 (Shane Dowrich 81, Jonathan Carter 68, Jason Holder 44, Kraigg Brathwaite 43, Shamarh Brooks 34; Veerasammy Permaul 4-124)
At Sabina Park
SCORPIONS 210 all out (Assad Fudadin 81, Chadwick Walton 52, Rovman Powell 22; Kavem Hodge 4-40, Josh Thomas 2-42) and 129 for six (Jermaine Blackwood 35, Assad Fudadin 31 not out)
VOLCANOES 113 (Kirk Edwards 29, Roland Cato 23; Rovman Powell 5-23)