The Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force duo of Amir Jan­goo and Bryan Charles led Queen’s Park Crick­et Club (QPCC) to an in­nings and 236 runs win over Pris­ons in Arou­ca on Sun­day.

The win en­abled the Tra­garete Road out­fit to leapfrog Marchin Pa­tri­ots, which drew against lead­ers Pow­er­gen, with the Pe­nal out­fit get­ting a first-in­nings lead in Char­lieville.

The Parkites start­ed the week­end in third place, bowl­ing Pris­ons out for 61 on Sat­ur­day with off-spin­ner Bryan Charles claim­ing 5 for 18 as he led the de­mo­li­tion of the home team in Arou­ca. Za­ck­ur­rie Raghoonath was the on­ly Prison bats­man to pro­vide mean­ing­ful re­sis­tance, bat­tling for 26 and keep­ing the Parkites’ on­slaught at bay for 77 balls.

In their turn at the crease, Queen’s Park was led by Amir Jan­goo, who smashed an un­beat­en 134 from 177 balls. The left-hand­ed West In­dies top-or­der bats­man slammed eight fours in his knock and shared im­por­tant part­ner­ships with cap­tain Joshua Da Sil­va (58) in a part­ner­ship worth 89 runs and Tion Web­ster (43) in a part­ner­ship worth 87 runs that pro­pelled the Port-of-Spain team to 400 for 7 be­fore the de­c­la­ra­tion came.

With a healthy lead of 339 runs, Queen’s Park was de­ter­mined to pick up im­por­tant points, look­ing ahead to Round Sev­en, when they play Bess Mo­tors Marchin Pa­tri­ots.

Za­ck­ur­rie Raghoonath was again a re­pel­lent to the Queen’s Park bowlers with 33 not out. He got sup­port this time from Sidel Di­az, who in his usu­al style did not spare the rod, hit­ting 35 from 37 balls with three fours and three six­es.

Charles just missed his ten-wick­et haul, tak­ing four for 31, while Bar­ba­di­an all-rounder Kadeem Al­leyne took four for 23 as Pris­ons were bowled out for 103, still 236 runs be­hind to give up the huge loss.

Mean­while, at Marchin, T&T and West In­dies top-or­der bats­man Evin Lewis re­spond­ed to Ja­son Mo­hammed and Navin Bidaisee cen­tu­ry bat­ting per­for­mances with a cen­tu­ry of his own, 113 for Marchin Pa­tri­ots in their re­ply to Pow­er­gen’s 403/7 de­clared in their drawn match.

The West In­dies white-ball open­er slammed 113 from 132 balls. The ex­plo­sive left-hand­ed at­tack­ing bats­man slammed nine fours and nine max­i­mums, but he didn’t have much sup­port from the rest of the team, as they were bowled out for a dis­ap­point­ing 196 in 47.4 overs.

On­ly Kirstan Kallicha­ran’s 22 and Crys­t­ian Thur­ton’s 13 were the on­ly oth­er scores that passed ten.

Off-spin­ner Avinash Ma­habirs­ingh was the pick of the Pow­er­gen bowlers, who tor­ment­ed the Marchin bats­men with fig­ures of five for 33, while Guyanese spin­ner Ash­mead Nedd grabbed three for 56.

Fol­low­ing on at home, Marchin Pa­tri­ots got an un­beat­en 76 from for­mer Cen­tral Sports bats­man Kamil Pooran, who hit sev­en fours and six six­es from just 47 balls as Pa­tri­ots closed on 99 for two from 13 overs.

Day 2 Sum­marised Scores

At Char­lieville

Pow­er­gen 403 /7 dec (105 overs) (Ja­son Mo­hammed 105; Navin Bi­saisee 101; Ri­val­do Ram­lo­gan 5-113) vs Bess Mo­tors Marchin Pa­tri­ots 196 (Evin Lewis 113; Avinash Ma­habirs­ingh 5-33; Ash­mead Nedd 3-56) & 99/2 (13 overs) (Kamil Pooran 76*; Ash­mead Nedd 2-22). Re­sult - Match Drawn.

At Arou­ca

Pris­ons 61 (32 overs) (Za­ck­ur­rie Raghoonath 26; Bryan Charles 5-18; Yan­nic Cari­ah 2-11) and 103 (31.3 overs) (Sidel Di­az 55; Za­ck­ur­rie Raghoonath 33*; Kadeem Al­leyne 4-23; Bryan Charles 4-31) vs Queen’s Park 400 /7 (73.5 overs) (Amir Jan­goo 134*; Joshua Da Sil­va 58; Kadeem Al­leyne 56; Vikash Ram­per­sad 3-116; Keno Ma­son 2-60). Re­sult - Queen’s Park won by an in­nings and 236 runs.

At Diego Mar­tin

Mer­ry­boys 290 (82.1 overs) (Kyle Kissoon­dath 65; Gio­van­ni Le­tren 51; Justyn Gan­goo 6-88) & 104 (36 overs) (Justin Man­ic 25*; Ger­rad Chin 21; Ja­son Bat­son 5-34; Justyn Gan­goo 4-46) vs Preysal 157 (47.1 overs) (Nick Ram­lal 42; Saurav Wor­rell 3-42)

Re­sult - Match Drawn.

At Bar­rack­pore

Vic­to­ria 257 (52.5 overs) (Jo­hann Je­re­mi­ah 137; Nicholas Ali 4-62) & 227 /6 (Jo­hann Je­re­mi­ah 86; Jor­dan Warn­er 62; Samuel Roop­nar­ine 5-82) vs Cen­tral Sports York­shire 320 (82 overs) (An­to­nio Gomez 71; Al Small 55; Chadeon Ray­mond 3-58; Far­rel Jug­mo­han 3-71). Re­sult - Match Drawn.