KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – Champions Jamaica emphatically claimed first-innings honours and pressed for victory against winless Guyana on yesterday’s third day of their 13th round WICB Regional Four-day match at Jarrett Park.

After securing an 81-run first innings lead, the Jamaicans – already assured of the George Headley/Everton Weekes Trophy with an impregnable 94 points – will enter today’s final day of their last match of the season on 215 for seven, an overall lead of 296.

The Jamaicans achieved their position in just over two sessions of batting after Guyana’s first innings had ended shortly before lunch.

Resuming from their overnight position of 268 for six in response to the home side’s 389, Guyana stretched their innings to near lunch but fell considerably short of their target.

Medium pacer David Bernard and leg-spinner Gavin Wallace combined to dismantle Guyana’s lower order.

Derwin Christian (15) was first to fall in the morning, leg-before-wicket to Bernard at 273 for seven and it became 307 for nine, when Wallace got rid Assad Fudadin (47) and Veerasammy Permaul (5).

Bernard wrapped up the innings by removing Brandon Bess lbw for a duck to finish with figures of four for 85 off 19.2 overs.

Wallace picked up three for 39 off 12 overs and his spin partner Odean Brown claimed two for 55.

Jamaica faced four overs before the lunch-break which they took at 28 without loss and continued building their lead to reach tea at 116 for three, after losing openers Brenton Parchment (29), Danza Hyatt (31) and captain Tamar Lambert (7).

Fast bowler Chris Barnwell, who picked up a five-wicket haul in the first innings, struck first when Parchment pulled a delivery to Sewnarine Chattergoon at square leg.

Parchment hit three fours and a six and led a 59-run opening stand with Hyatt, who was caught at mid-on off the left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul at 95 for two.

Lambert, top scorer with 90 in the first innings, did not last long and was caught at deep mid-wicket off leg-spinner Davindra Bishoo for seven at 112 for three just before tea.

Needing to press the run-rate accelerator to give themselves the platform for a victory bid on the last day, the Jamaicans scored steadily in the last session but also lost four wickets.

Permaul bowled Bernard (6) and Carlton Baugh was run-out without scoring as the home side dipped to 129 for five.

No.3 batsman Donovan Pagon eventually fell – lbw to Bishoo — for 45 with four boundaries and Daren Powell stroked 27 in a 48-run seventh-wicket partnership with Test batsman Brendan Nash, that pushed the total past the 200-mark.

At the close, Nash was not out on 40 with three boundaries and Brown (1) was with him as the Jamaicans take aim at the seventh win of the season.

The Guyanese, enduring their worst ever season, have failed to secure a single win from 10 matches so far this season and if they fail to beat the odds and win against the Jamaicans today, their final round game against Barbados on the Easter weekend will be their last chance to collect a victory.

WICB REGIONAL FOUR-DAY
JAMAICA v GUYANA
JAMAICA 1st innings 389 (T. Lambert 90; C. Barnwell 5-77)
GUYANA 1st innings (o/n 268 for 6)
C. Barnwell c Parchment b Bernard 38
S. Chattergoon lbw O. Brown 63
L. Johnson c Pagon b Richardson 3
N. Deonarine c Parchment b Bernard 63
T. Dowlin lbw b Wallace 8
S. Jacobs c wkp. Baugh b O. Brown 19
A. Fudadin c Brown b Wallace 47
D. Christian lbw Bernard 15
D. Bishoo not out 8
V. Permaul lbw Wallace 5
B. Bess lbw Bernard 0
Extras: (b-22, lb-3, w-2, nb-12) 39
Total: (all out, 78.2 overs) 308
Fall of wickets: 1-79, 2-87, 3-135, 4-165, 5-217, 6-256, 7-273, 8-301, 9-307.
Bowling: Powell 12-1-59-0, Richardson 15-4-39-1, Bernard 19.2-0-85-4, O. Brown 17-2-55-2, Wallace 12-1-39-3, Parchment 3-1-6-0.

JAMAICA 2nd innings
B. Parchment c Chattergoon b Barnwell 29
D. Hyatt c Deonarine b Permaul 31
D. Pagon lbw Bishoo 45
T. Lambert c Chattergoon b Bishoo 7
D. Bernard b Permaul 6
C. Baugh run-out 0
D. Powell c Jacobs b Bishoo 27
B. Nash not out 40
O. Brown not out 1
Extras: (b-10, lb-8, nb-3, w-8) 29
Total: (for 7 wickets, 74 overs) 215
Fall of wickets: 1-59, 2-95, 3-112, 4-120, 5-129, 6-159, 7-207.
Bowling: Bess 7-0-40-0, Barnwell 9-0-42-1, Permaul 25-4-45-2, Jacobs 16-1-34-0, Bishoo 17-3-36-3, Chattergoon 1-1-0-0.
Position: Jamaica 296 runs ahead overall with 3 wickets standing.

LEEWARDS v T&T
LEEWARDS 1st innings 303 (K. Powell 57; A. Jaggernauth 5-81)
T&T 1st innings (o/n 292 for 3)
A. Barath c Rogers b Liburd 113
I. Khan c Morton b Defreitas 125
D. Ganga not out 96
D. Bravo c wkp. Thomas b Defreitas 6
J. Mohammed lbw Willett 8
S. Ganga c Cornwall b Defreitas 10
D. Cruickshank c Defreitas b Tonge 10
G. Mohammed run-out (Willett) 6
R. Emrit c Hodge b Cornwall 26
A. Jaggernauth c wkp. Thomas b Defreitas 0
N. Stewart c wkp. Thomas b Defreitas 0
Extras: (b-8, lb-4, w-6, nb-15) 33
Total: (all out, 125.4 overs) 433
Fall of wickets: 1-239, 2-255, 3-290, 4-318, 5-342, 6-357, 7-383, 8-421, 9-433.
Bowling: Tonge 28-1-107-1, Defreitas 21.4-4-88-5, Willett 27-0-84-1, Martin 20-2-61-0, Cornwall 24-6-60-1, Liburd 4-0-14-1, Hodge 1-0-7-0.

LEEWARDS 2nd innings
K. Powell b Jaggernauth 40
M. Hodge c S. Ganga b Emrit 0
R. Morton c Khan b S. Ganga 72
C. Rogers c wkp. Thomas b S. Ganga 25
T. Willett not out 0
Extras: (b-4, nb-1) 5
Total: (for 4 wkts, 44.5 overs) 142
Fall of wickets: 1-23, 2-68, 3-137, 4-142.
Bowling: Emrit 5-0-24-1, Stewart 6-1-28-0, Khan 11-0-44-0, Jaggernauth 13-1-27-1, S. Ganga 9.5-2-15-2.
Position: Leewards 12 runs ahead overall with 6 wickets standing.

BARBADOS v CCC
BARBADOS 1st innings 235
CCC 1st innings (o/n 271 for eight)
O. Phillips c Boucher b Hinds 89
K. Corbin c Boucher b Ramsay 21
N. Parris c D.R. Smith b Ramsay 8
J. Smith c wkp. Browne b Hinds 27
K. Wilkinson c Collymore b Ramsay 26
F. Reifer c wkp. Browne b Best 29
C. Walton b Hinds 87
A. Sealy lbw b Hinds 5
K. Kantasingh b Hinds 0
K. McClean not out 50
R. Austin lbw b Hinds 0
Extras: (b-20, lb-4, w-1, nb-10) 35
Total: (all out, 143.1 overs) 377
Fall of wickets: 1-57, 2-74, 3-165, 4-174, 5-214, 6-238, 7-245, 8-245, 9-373.
Bowling: Collymore 26-5-53-0, Best 19-4-74-1 (nb-2, w-1), Ramsay 38-12-104-3, Yearwood 10-4-15-0, Hinds 43.1-7-89-6 (nb-8), Stoute 7-2-18-0.

BARBADOS 2nd innings
R. Boucher c wkp. Walton b McClean 0
K. Brathwaite run-out 33
R. Hinds c Phillips b Kantasingh 0
K. Edwards b Sealy 9
D.R. Smith c Reifer b Austin 87
K. Stoute not out 21
P. Browne lbw b Austin 2
B. Yearwood c Wilkinson b Sealy 12
T. Best not out 0
Extras: (b-1, lb-1, w-1) 3
Total: (7 wkts, 50 overs) 167
Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-8, 3-24, 4-114, 5-137, 6-137, 7-167.
Bowling: McClean 4-0-17-1, Kantasingh 17-4-41-1, Sealy 12-0-57-2 (w-1), Austin 17-3-50-2.
Position: Barbados lead by 25 runs with three second innings wickets standing.