DEFENDING Cricket West Indies (CWI) Regional Super50 Festival champions, the Barbados Pride staged a brilliant recovery with the ball to offset a poor day with the bat to earn a crushing 100-run win over the Windward Islands Volcanoes at Kensington Oval on Saturday.

Choosing to bat, the Pride could only muster 211-9 from their 50 overs but defended the total in impressive fashion courtesy of the bowling performances of Kemar Roach and Miguel Cummins, doing away with the Volcanoes for just 110.
The Pride got off to a horrible start after paceman Delorn Johnson got rid of the two openers, skipper Kraigg Brathwaite for 18 and Kevin Stoute for three.
At 23-2, Windies middle-order batsman, Shai Hope tried to stabilise the innings with 53 from 89 balls, but wickets fell regularly with a number of batsmen getting starts but failing to carry on.

Jonathan Carter, 28, Roston Chase, 27, and Shamarh Brooks, 32, all failed to get the middle of the batting going, while Windies T20I skipper, Carlos Brathwaite, could only manage 17.

The batting failed against the bowling of Johnson, 3-36, and Kyle Mayers, 3-59. Shane Shillingford also put the Pride under pressure with his 2-28 from 10 overs. Obed McCoy was the other wicket-taker in the innings, ending with figures of 1-28.
In reply, the Volcanoes only lasted 33 overs, as Roach, 4-35, and Cummins, 4-27, ripped through the top order.

Roach struck first, getting the prolific Devon Smith for one, the opener going caught by Carter.
Johnson Charles, 11, would follow soon after as Cummins came to the party, removing him and then Andre Fletcher for six.

Roach then proved the undoing of Kirk Edwards, bowling the number four batsman for 16 just after delivering the same treatment on Tyrone Theophile for six.
Kavem Hodge tried to stabilise the innings but his unbeaten 36 had little impact as the Roach-Cummins show continued.

Mayers was next to go, the all-rounder falling to Roach for two, before Cummins added two more scalps, Shillingford, five, and Johnson, eight, to his tally.

Larry Edward was bowled by Carlos Brathwaite and to add insult to injury, Cummins ran out McCoy to wrap up the innings.