Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, January 7 - (www.bcacricket.org) - Barbados Pride beat ICC Americas by four wickets with 7.1 overs remaining in their opening round Group A match of the 2016 WICB NAGICO Super50 Championship at UWI SPEC today. Set 184 to win in 50 overs, the Pride made 184 for six off 42.5 overs.
Red Force vs Scorpions
DEFENDING champions Trinidad and Tobago Red Force started the defence of their Nagico Super50 regional cricket crown with an impressive 84-run victory over the Jamaica Scorpions in a day-night encounter at the Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain on Thursday.
Allrounder Marlon Richards was the undoubted star of the show, scoring 31 hard-fought runs and taking five wickets for 36 runs as the Jamaicans folded for 137 in 42.5 overs, chasing 222 for victory. Earlier Red Force opening batsman Evin Lewis slammed a top score of 74 to enable the home team to a challenging total of 221 all out (47.2) overs) against their opponents as the 2016 Nagico Super50 regional tournament bowled off on Thursday.
THE Leon Johnson-led Guyana Jaguars got off to a sour start in their NAGICO Regional Super50 campaign, after falling to the Windwards Islands Volcanoes by one run compliments of the Duckworth Lewis method. Playing in St Kitts and Nevis, the Jaguars held the Windwards Islands to 214 runs in their allotted 50 overs.
The pick of the bowlers for the Jaguars was former West Indies U-19 spinner Gudakesh Motie-Kanhai with 3-32 from his 6 overs which included one maiden over (6-1-32-3). Steven Jacobs went for three for 40 runs (10-1-40-3).
Hurricanes vs CCC Marooners
HURRICANES 187 for 5 (38 overs) MAROONERS Did not bat
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As Barkley, no stranger to controversy or boorish behaviour himself, said then, a person is not a good role model because he can run faster, jump higher and play a sport better than the normal person.
After two days of constant rain in Sydney, David Warner produced a torrent of runs on the fifth day to entertain the faithful with the quickest Test century ever recorded at the SCG. A draw was the inevitable result of a Test in which only 150.1 overs were bowled due to wet weather, but Warner's 82-ball hundred at least ensured there was good reason to watch the final day's play.
Cricket Australia had thrown open the gates and declared free entry, and the local fans hoped they would see the Australians bat early in the day. Only 68 balls had been possible on day two, and days three and four had been completely washed out, meaning that the only chance of a result would have been if the captains agreed to double-declarations on the final day, but that was not to be.
West Indies began the morning at 7 for 248 and batted on, Denesh Ramdin completing a second consecutive Test half-century before they were dismissed for 330 on the stroke of lunch. And so, Australia's first innings of the Test began after lunch on day five, with Warner and Joe Burns hoping to get whatever they could out of the day's batting; another century opening stand was a good result.
MELBOURNE—Media reports here have claimed that Chris Gayle could be expelled from the ongoing Big Bash League if Cricket Australia’s investigations into an alleged act of indecent exposure during last year’s Cricket World Cup prove the incident actually occurred.
Following Gayle’s on-air flirtations with Channel TEN reporter, Mel McLaughlin, Fairfax Media here reported that a woman—who requested anonymity—had since claimed the West Indies batting star had indecently exposed himself to her in a dressing room at the Sydney Cricket Ground last February.
The Australian woman said she entered the dressing room thinking it was empty only to discover Gayle, who dropped his towel to partially expose his genitals while asking: “Are you looking for this?”
For the first time in more than 25 years, two consecutive Test days were washed out in Australia without a ball being bowled, as heavy rain continued in Sydney on Wednesday. Only 68 balls had been bowled on the second day before days three and four were completely abandoned, leading Cricket Australia to declare free entry for day five, in addition to refunds for tickets on the second, third and fourth days.
