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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Khan, Pierre rescue Red Force after Lewis triggers collapse

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T&T Red Force's batsman Imran Khan

T&T Red Force's batsman Imran Khan

Nicholas Bhajan

KINGSTOWN, St Vin­cent – All-rounder Im­ran Khan stroked his sec­ond half-cen­tu­ry in as many out­ings while tail-en­der Khary Pierre struck his sec­ond first-class fifty, as they res­cued Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force in an un­bro­ken cen­tu­ry stand, on the open­ing day of their ninth round en­counter against Wind­ward Is­lands Vol­ca­noes, yes­ter­day.

Opt­ing to bat first, Red Force made a ter­rif­ic re­cov­ery fol­low­ing a night­mare start, to end the day at the Arnos Vale Sta­di­um on 254 for six.

Their in­nings lay in ru­ins at 114 for six af­ter lunch but Pierre carved out an un­beat­en 80 and Im­ran Khan fin­ished on 71 not out, to guide the vis­i­tors to safe­ty.

The pair have so far post­ed 140 for the part­ner­ship which frus­trat­ed Vol­ca­noes af­ter Test seam­er Sher­man Lewis had got­ten through the mid­dle or­der with three for 54.

There was no sign of the col­lapse to come when Je­re­my Solozano (24) and Joshua Da Sil­va (14) put on 32 for the open­ing wick­et.

But seam­er Ray Jor­dan trapped Da Sil­va lbw in the sev­enth over be­fore new-ball seam­er Josh Thomas ac­count­ed for Tion Web­ster (3) cheap­ly in the next over, to leave Red Force on 35 for two.

Yan­nic Cari­ah, who made 36, then tried to re­pair the in­nings in a 28-run, third wick­et part­ner­ship with Solozano, who struck two fours in a 49-ball be­fore be­com­ing one of three wick­ets to tum­ble for four runs in the space of 15 de­liv­er­ies.

In a dev­as­tat­ing burst, Lewis claimed Solozano hit wick­et and then bowled Ja­son Mo­hammed two balls lat­er with­out scor­ing, be­fore knock­ing over cap­tain De­nesh Ramdin al­so with­out scor­ing in his next over as Red Force crashed to 67 for five.

Still, in dan­ger on 85 for five at lunch, Red Force was re­vived in a 47-run, sixth-wick­et stand be­tween Im­ran Khan and Cari­ah, which kept Vol­ca­noes with­out im­me­di­ate fur­ther suc­cess.

Left-arm spin­ner Kavem Hodge then got the break­through when he had Cari­ah caught at short leg af­ter the left-han­der had faced 79 de­liv­er­ies and count­ed two fours and a six.

Any thoughts Vol­ca­noes har­boured of wrap­ping up the Red Force in­nings cheap­ly were then dashed as Im­ran Khan, un­beat­en on 38 at tea with Pierre on 36, car­ried their side safe­ly to 173 for six at the sec­ond in­ter­val, be­fore dom­i­nat­ing the fi­nal ses­sion.

Pierre faced 185 de­liv­er­ies and cracked sev­en fours and three six­es while Im­ran Khan stroked three bound­aries in his 201-ball in­nings.

SCORES

At Arnos Vale: Red Force bat­ted the en­tire day.

T&T RED FORCE 254 for six (Khary Pierre 80 not out, Im­ran Khan 71 not out, Yan­nic Cari­ah 36; Sher­man Lewis 3-54) vs WIND­WARD IS­LANDS VOL­CA­NOES.

At Sabi­na Park: Scor­pi­ons trail by 133 runs with eight first in­nings wick­ets in­tact.

LEE­WARD IS­LANDS HUR­RI­CANES 210 (De­von Thomas 65, Jah­mar Hamil­ton 43, Montcin Hodge 35; Niki­ta Miller 7-35)

JA­MAICA SCOR­PI­ONS 77 for two (Bran­don King 35 not out, Jer­maine Black­wood 31 not out)

At Guyana Na­tion­al Sta­di­um: Jaguars lead by 86 runs with sev­en first in­nings wick­ets in­tact.

BAR­BA­DOS PRIDE 76 (Chaim Hold­er 22; Ray­mon Reifer 5-20)

GUYANA JAGUARS 162 for sev­en (Ray­mon Reifer 33 not out, Vishaul Singh 33; Jonathan Carter 3-45)


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