REGIONAL 4DAY….Benn snares five as Guyana surrender first innings points

-match interestingly poised as B’dos lead by 156 runs
THANKS to Suleiman Benn’s 5 for 28, coupled with Ashley Nurse’s 3 for 51 engineered a Guyana batting collapse from 92 without loss to 140, in reply to Barbados’ 184 within the first hour of their post lunch session on the second day of their West Indies Cricket Board Regional four day second round contest at the Guyana National Stadium, last night.Barbados, led their host by 40 runs on the first innings, increased same to 156 at the close of play, with Kevin Stoute 15 and Shane Dowrich 9 being their not out batsmen.
Earlier in the contest Guyana resumed on 35 without loss, with Sewnarine Chattergoon and Tagenarine Chanderpaul on 14 and 11 respectively and posted their 50 from 25.5 overs in the face of some discipline bowling from the visitors, with Chattergoon 24 and Chanderpaul on 14.
The introduction of Ashley Nurse at the start of the 30th over of the home team’s innings and 13th for the day, saw Chattergoon cutting the off spinner past Roston Chase at gully for his fifth boundary.
At the other end, a short delivery from Tino Best was steered to vacant third man by Chanderpaul, while a short delivery from Best was pulled for six over backward squareleg by Chattergoon, as the Guyanese moved to 69 without loss at the end of the first hour’s play.
Strangely, Kraigg Brathwaite opted to use the medium pace of Jonathan Carter instead of Carlos Brathwaite and even Suleiman Benn’s spin and Chattergoon cashed in by steering the bowler past Rashidi Boucher at gully for four, followed by another boundary off Nurse in the following over.
A Tagenarine Chanderpaul four square of the wicket off Carter, brought back memories of his father Shivnarine Chanderpaul at such a young age, while Chattergoon raced closer to his 22nd first class half century, with his eighth four off Nurse.
The 32 year old Chattergoon got his first half century of this year’s tournament in the following over bowled by Benn, counting eight fours and one six from the 120 deliveries he faced, as he pushed the score to 90 without loss with Chanderpaul who was on 27.
A double strike by Nurse, accounted for Chattergoon 50 (129 balls, 8×4; 1×6, 151mins) and Assad Fudadin who edged his first delivery through to Dowrich, leaving Guyana on 92 for 2 in the 40th over, with Chanderpaul on 27 being joined by Narsingh Deonarine.
Barbados should have removed Chanderpaul, but Miguel Cummins who was stationed at mid-off, grassed the chance when the batsman was on 29 at 92 for 2 in the 43rd over, with the ball racing away to the vacant long off boundary for four.
They however got Deonarine who failed to respond positively to Chanderpaul’s call for a single and was run out by the full length of the pitch, while Nurse struck 13 minutes before lunch when Christopher Barnwell (02) picked out Stoute at short extra cover, off a dangerous looking Nurse.
Guyana reached their 100 from 46.1 overs with Chanderpaul on 36 and Vishal Singh yet to score and at lunch they were 107 for 4 with Chanderpaul 37 and Singh 5, trailing Barbados by 77 runs.
Guyana slipped to 111 for 6 within the first four overs after lunch, losing Chanderpaul run out for 41 (156balls, 151mins, 5×4) and Singh (05) who feathered one through to Dowrich off Benn, to be 111 for 6, losing six wickets for 19 runs.
Barbados wasted little or no time in wrapping up Guyana’s innings, as the lanky Benn and Nurse who bowled in tandem for the post luncheon session, claimed the remaining six wickets for 33 runs from 18.4 overs, as Anthony Bramble’s 22 (37b, 51mins, 2×4) offered little resistance, leaving Keon Joseph unbeaten on 1.
At the dinner break, Barbados who were asked to bat for 33 minutes were 18 for 1, losing Kraigg Brathwaite who was lbw to Joseph for 5, with Rashidi Boucher on 7 and Roston Chase 4
Permaul, who was guilty of bowling short and wide of the off stump, was struck for three fours by Boucher, with the third flying past Barnwell in the solitary slip position, while the Barbadians got to their 50 from 19.2 overs and 66 minutes batting, with Boucher on 31 and Chase 12.
Guyana removed Boucher 36 (65b, 93mins, 7×4) courtesy of a juggling catch by Singh at gully off Johnson, while Carter was caught by a diving Chanderpaul at long on, off Bishoo for 19 (25balls, 3×4; 1×6 28mins) at 90 for 3 in the 32nd over.
They reached the 100 from 35.5 overs with

Scorecard
Barbados 1st Innings 184
Guyana 1st Innings (O/night 35-0)

S Chattergoon c K. Brathwaite b Nurse 50
T Chanderpaul run out (Carter/Dowrich) 41
A Fudadin c Boucher b Nurse 00
N Deonarine run out (Carter/Benn) 00
C. Barnwell c Stoute b Nurse 02
V Singh c Dowrich b Benn 05
A Bramble b Benn 22
D Bishoo lbw b Benn 04
V Permaul b Benn 00
K Joseph not out 01
R Johnson c Nurse b Benn 02
Extras: (5nb, 4b, 4lb) 13
Total (all out off 68.4 overs) 140
Fall of wickets: 1-92, 2-92, 3-97, 4-99, 5-111, 6-111, 7-121, 8-127, 9-138, 10-140
Bowling: Best 8-1-20-0 Cummins 6-3-12-0 (3nb) Nurse 26-12-51-3 Stoute 8-3-15-0 (2nb) Benn 17-7-28-5 Carter 2-0-8-0

Barbados 2nd Innings
K Brathwaite lbw b Joseph 05
R Boucher c Singh b R Johnson 36
R Chase b Deonarine 30
J Carter c T Chanderpaul b Bishoo 19
K Stoute not out 15
S Dowrich not out 09
Extras (2b) 02
Total (for 4 wickets off 44 overs) 116
Fall of wickets: 1-12, 2-61, 3-90, 4-100
To Bat: A Nurse, C Brathwaite, S Benn, T Best, M Cummins
Bowling: Joseph 8-4-8-1 R Johnson 6-1-18-1 Permaul 11-1-36-0 Deonarine 10-3-20-1 Bishoo 8-2-30-1 Chattergoon 1-0-2-0
By Calvin Roberts

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