NORTH SOUND, Antigua (CMC) – Guyana Jaguars brushed aside USA Cricket by seven wickets here yesterday, to halt their two-game losing streak in the Regional Super50. Entering the Group B contest on the heels of defeats to Jamaica Scorpions and English county Kent, Jaguars returned to their winning ways by easily chasing down a modest 145 to win with almost 20 overs to spare.
Opener Chandrapaul Hemraj top-scored with an entertaining 64 off 59 deliveries, while veteran left-hander Shiv Chanderpaul contributed 39. Jaguars stumbled at the start when they lost young West Indies left-hander Shimron Hetmyer cheaply, for five, to a catch at the wicket off left-arm seamer Saurabh Netravalkar in the second over, with the score on five. However, Hemraj and Chanderpaul combined in a second-wicket stand of 89, to put Jaguars within sight of victory.
Scorpions vs Hurricanes
Chadwick Walton scored a savage innings of 169 that paved the way for a massive Jamaica Scorpions win in their Cricket West Indies Regional Super50 Festival game against the Leeward Islands Hurricanes at the Coolidge Cricket Ground on Monday.
Walton’s innings helped the Scorpions to 329-7 off their 50 overs, leaving the Hurricanes with an uphill task. A task they failed as they crumbled to 181 all out, a ball into the 42nd over.
Choosing to bat, Walton lost opening partner Steven Taylor for 10 and watched as Rovman Powell was run out for one.
It was only when Andre McCarthy came to crease that things settled down for the Scorpions, his 36 from 53 deliveries extremely beneficial to Walton, who unlike his teammates, scored freely, going at a run-a-ball until he got to three figures.
As the two-time defending champions of the World Cup, the West Indies were seen as the overwhelming favourites for the 1983 edition, to be played in England.
They were the most dominant team in world cricket in test match and one day internationals. They had a settled core of players, with the commanding presence of Clive Lloyd as captain. New players were seamlessly introduced, and there always seemed a new fast bowler ready to replace the aging ones.
In sporting terms, the West Indies bench was strong.
That strength, and the fabric that morally differentiated West Indies cricket from any other, was put to the test during the latter months of 1982. There were whispers, and rumours of West Indian players signing to undertake a Rebel Tour of apartheid ruled South Africa.
The details were sketchy, there were denials and there was an obvious cloud of “hush hush” around the Leeward Islands training camp, as they prepared for the 1983 Shell Shield at the Police Recreation Grounds in Antigua.
FLORENCE HALL, Trelawny —Touring England Lions laboured to 232-6 on a spinner-friendly surface on the opening day of the first “Test” against West Indies “A” at Trelawny Multi-purpose Stadium.
At the close yesterday, all-rounder Paul Coughlin was not out on 51, while Toby Roland-Jones is on 18. The 25-year-old Coughlin was the most fluent batsman during a day of attrition, hitting five boundaries off 95 balls.
Left-hander Nick Gubbins was dismissed for an even 50, while left-hand opener and Captain Keaton Jennings supported with 49.
Off-spinner Rahkeem Cornwall made good use of the turn and grip on offer to claim 3-63.
Score: England Lions 232-6 (96 overs).
Earlier, the hosts won the toss and sent the Lions to take first strike under sunny skies with a stiff breeze rushing across the venue.
West Indies are set to play a Twenty20 International in the American city of Houston for the first time later this year, as part of a Tri-Nations Series involving Pakistan and Bangladesh.
An unnamed senior Pakistan Cricket Board official told the Indian Express newspaper the series, scheduled for August, had been finalised following discussions between PCB chairman Najam Sethi and Cricket West Indies president, Dave Cameron, on the sidelines of the recent International Cricket Council meeting in Dubai.
Windies skipper Jason Holder’s four-for led Barbados Pride to a 32 run win over Trinidad and Tobago Red Force in the CWI Super50 at Kensington Oval on Sunday. After winning the toss and choosing to bat Shai Hope (45) and Roston Chase (46) led the way for the Pride batsmen as they compiled a competitive 235-7. In response, the Red Force were in trouble early but clung on grimly before eventually being all out for 203. The Red Force secured an early breakthrough after opener Kevin Stoute was run out on 5 by Imran Khan. His opening partner Kraigg Brathwaite (34) was next to be dismissed as he was caught by Roshon Primus off a Khary Pierre delivery which left the Pride struggling at 2 for 64.
Marooners vs Volcanoes
CAVE HILL, Barbados, (CMC) – Last man Obed McCoy smashed a six off the last ball of the match as Windward Islands Volcanoes snatched a dramatic one-wicket win over Combined Campuses and Colleges Marooners in a low-scoring encounter here Sunday.Chasing a hardly intimidating 173 for victory in their Group A fixture of the Regional Super50, Volcanoes tumbled from 105 for two in the 29th over to 153 for nine at the end of the 46th over, after losing seven wickets for 48 runs. But number 10 Larry Edward, who finished on 21 not out, and McCoy, unbeaten on 14, produced a valiant, unbroken last-wicket stand of 24, to push the contest into the last over at 3Ws Oval.Entering the final over requiring 10 for victory, the odds still rested with the home side but the pair played sensibly to deny them honours.
