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Monday, July 21, 2025

T&T struggling against Guyana

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2539 days ago
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CEPHAS COOPER

CEPHAS COOPER

KINGSTOWN, St Vin­cent– Ja­maica is in a good po­si­tion to claim first in­nings lead over the Wind­ward Is­lands, while Guyana staged a fight­back against T&T af­ter be­ing skit­tled out on the open­ing day of the sec­ond round of match­es in the Re­gion­al Un­der-19 Cham­pi­onship.

Led by three-wick­et hauls from San­jay Brown and Raewin Se­nior, Ja­maica dis­missed the Wind­wards for just 184. At the close of play, they had made sig­nif­i­cant in­roads in­to that to­tal, fin­ish­ing on 133 for two, just 51 runs adrift.

Ja­maica was giv­en a sol­id start by open­ers Kirk McKen­zie (33) and Ri­car­do McIn­tosh, who scored 64, as they added 65 runs in just 12 overs for the first wick­et.

McIn­tosh’s knock con­tained sev­en bound­aries and one six and came off 83 balls.

Fol­low­ing their even­tu­al dis­missals, Bryan Brown who is un­beat­en on 16 and An­dre Mc­Carthy (12 not out), en­sured there were no fur­ther sur­pris­es.

Ear­li­er, Brown and Se­nior, along with Mc­Carthy who took two wick­ets, ran through the Wind­wards low­er or­der.

From a com­fort­able po­si­tion of 181 for 5, the Wind­wards lost their last five wick­ets for the ad­di­tion of just three runs, af­ter Tahj Tav­ernier and Mic­ah Joseph had helped res­cue them from ear­ly trou­ble.

Tav­ernier, who top­scored with 53 and Joseph (34) shared a 65-run part­ner­ship for the sixth wick­et af­ter the Wind­wards had stum­bled to 116 for five.

But once they were dis­missed with­in a run of each oth­er there was very lit­tle re­sis­tance.

Ta­ble lead­ers Guyana were rout­ed for just 104, but fought back to lim­it T&T to 51 for four at the end of play.

Baskar Yadram was Guyana’s top­scor­er with 25, with no oth­er bats­man scor­ing 20 runs, as Navin Bidaisee’s four for 31 left them tot­ter­ing at 65-5 at one point.

Kevin Sin­clair then ac­count­ed for the first three wick­ets of Bidaisee, Cephas Coop­er and Leonar­do Julien, to re­duce T&T to 29-3, and leave the con­test even­ly poised head­ing in­to Wednes­day’s sec­ond day.

Bar­ba­dos was led by a su­perb five-wick­et haul from Joshua Bish­op, as they end­ed their con­test against the Lee­ward Is­lands in the dri­ver’s seat.

Bat­ting first, sev­er­al Bar­ba­di­an bats­man got starts but failed to car­ry on as they were bowled out for a re­spectable 249.

Matthew Forde (45) and Ny­eem Young (44) both fell short of half cen­turies, as Bar­ba­dos re­cov­ered from 137 for sev­en.

El­roy Fran­cis was the main de­stroy­er, snag­ging four wick­ets for 56 runs, while Mikyle Louis and Za­wan­di White each took two wick­ets.

Bish­op then struck thrice in three suc­ces­sive overs to re­strict the Lee­wards to 49-3.

Mikyle Louis who is un­beat­en on 49, helped to steady the in­nings and avert cat­a­stro­phe af­ter his team fell in­to fur­ther trou­ble at 78-5.

To­geth­er with Joshua Grant, they have added 41 for the sixth wick­et so far to end on 117-5.

(CMC)

Scores:

At Park Hill Play­ing Field: Lee­ward Is­lands trail Bar­ba­dos by 130 runs with five wick­ets in­tact.

BAR­BA­DOS 249 (Matthew Forde 45, Ny­eem Young 44, Shi­an Brath­waite 32, Ki­lano Brath­waite 26; El­roy Fran­cis 4-56, Mikyle Louis 2-44, Za­wan­di White 2-52)

LEE­WARD IS­LANDS 119 for five (Mikyle Louis 49 not out; Joshua Bish­op 5-23)

At Sion Hill Play­ing Field: T&T trail Guyana by 53 runs with six wick­ets in­tact.

GUYANA 104 (Baskar Yadram 25; Navin Bidaisee 4-31, Ri­val­do Ram­la­gan 2-14, Justyn Gan­goo 2-20)

TRINIDAD & TO­BA­GO 51 for four ( Kevin Sin­clair 3-17)

At Arnos Vale Play­ing Field: Ja­maica trail the Wind­ward Is­lands by 51 runs with eight wick­ets in­tact.

WIND­WARD IS­LANDS 184 (Tahj Tav­ernier 53, Mi­ca Joseph 34, Johnel Eu­gene 29, Ki­mani Melius 25; San­jay Brown 3-12, Raewin Se­nior 3-45, An­dre Mc­Carthy 2-40)

JA­MAICA 133 for two (Ri­car­do McIn­tosh 64 not out, Kirk McKen­zie 33)

(CMC)


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