Test leftarm spinner Jomel Warrican and former West Indies captain Jason Holder carved up the batting of hosts Trinidad and Tobago Red Force and set up Barbados Pride for an eight-win in the West Indies Championship yesterday.
Warrican was the most successful Pride bowler with six for 31 from 17 overs, and Holder supported with four for 23 from 12.1 overs with his medium fast bowling, and Red Force were bowled out for 124 in their second innings less than an hour after the scheduled start on the third day of the contest at Queen’s Park Oval.
Left-hander Amir Jangoo added only five to his overnight score before he fell to Holder for 35, and Red Force captain Joshua Da Silva, the West Indies wicketkeeper-batsman, added six before Warrican removed him – and none of the other batsmen that appeared on the day reached ten.
Pride frittered away two cheap wickets to left-arm spinner Khary Pierre chasing 20 to win, but their first innings batting hero Jonathan Drakes, not out on 14, and West Indies Test captain Kraigg Brathwaite, not out on five, got them over the finish line.
Drakes formalised the result about half-hour before the scheduled lunch interval when he lofted Pierre to straight long-off for four, and Pride will earn a massive boost in points after such a lopsided win against their arch-rivals.
Starting the day on 100 for three, Red Force endured a major setback in their effort to resist when Da Silva was caught behind off Warrican for 23, and Tion Webster, a century-maker this season, was lbw to the same bowler for a duck next ball.
Red Force were 107 for five, and they lost their last five wickets for 17 in the span of 41 balls in a tame surrender to the disciplined, if not threatening bowling of Warrican and Holder.
Pride face hosts Leeward Islands Hurricanes in the sixth round, starting on April 10 at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground in Antigua, and Red Force will remain at home and meet hosts Combined Campuses & Colleges Marooners at Frank Worrell Field on the St Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies.
Scores: At Frank Worrell Field in Trinidad: Combined Campuses & Colleges Marooners require 314 more to win against Cricket West Indies Academy with all their second innings wickets standing.
CWI ACADEMY 300 all out (Carlos Bowen-Tuckett 76 not out, Johann Layne 63, Joshua Dorne 36, Joshua Bishop 32, Rashawn Worrell 27; Yannick Ottley 22.3-8-47-5, Jediah Blades 3-59) and 316 for seven declared (Teddy Bishop 114, Joshua James 58, Kadeem Alleyne 32, Joshua Bishop 29 not out, Jordan Johnson 22; Romario Greaves 3-76, Yannick Ottley 2-48, Jediah Blades 2-64).
MAROONERS 231 all out (Demario Richards 59, Zishan Motara 56, Sadique Henry 29, Shamarh Brooks 25; Ashmead Nedd 4-51, Joshua Bishop 2-44, Johann Layne 2-60) and 72 without loss (Kamil Pooran 49 not out).
At Sabina Park in Jamaica: Leeward Islands Hurricanes require 42 more to win against Jamaica Scorpions with seven second innings wickets standing.
SCORPIONS 221 all out (Carlos Brown 68, Romaine Morris 42, Derval Green 20 not out; Jeremiah Louis 3-34, Rahkeem Cornwall 3-69, Colin Archibald 2-23, Daniel Doram 2-27) and 196 all out (Abhijai Mansingh 52, Kirk McKenzie 33, Ramaal Lewis 30, Peat Salmon 22; Jeremiah Louis 3-24, Rahkeem Cornwall 3-56, Oshane Thomas 2-48).
HURRICANES 231 all out (Justin Greaves 62, Keacy Carty 53, Kieran Powell 41, Jewel Andrew 32; Peat Salmon 23-4-50-5, Ramaal Lewis 4-80) and 145 for three (Justin Greaves 62 not out, Mikyle Louis 57; Peat Salmon 2-54). (CMC)
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