BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – Promising teenager Kraigg Brathwaite smashed the first Division One double century on Saturday and helped Barbados Youth beat LIME in the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) Championship.
Building on his over-week century, the 16-year-old reached his double hundred before tea on Saturday at the Lester Vaughan School ground.
Picked on the West Indies Under-19 squad for next year’s ICC Youth World Cup in New Zealand, Brathwaite compiled an unbeaten 222 in the Barbados Youth’s first innings score of 399 for nine declared.
Brathwaite, who has already scored a remarkable 40 centuries in his fledgling career, reached his double century in 417 minutes off 322 balls with 32 boundaries.
LIME crashed to 162 all out in reply and asked to follow, folded for 177 in their second innings on Sunday with West Indies U-19 spinner Jomel Warrican snaring a five-wicket match haul.
Tall West Indies spinner Sulieman Benn and Trinidad and Tobago national Justin Guillen also made headlines as 10th round matches ended on Sunday.
Benn returned a match-haul of seven for 82 for Spartan to beat YMPC by 32 runs at Queen’s Park.
Guillen scored two half-centuries – 65 and 68 not out – for Wanderers, who drew with Bristol at Old Coleridge ground where former West Indies medium pacer Ian Bradshaw grabbed a first innings five for 66.
UWI, with the nucleus of their players in the Combined Campuses and Colleges squad, tuned up for the WICB President’s Cup later this month in Guyana, with a 218-run victory over Maple at 3Ws Oval.
Nekoli Parris (149), Vincentian Romel Currency (50), and Floyd Reifer (50 not out) allowed them to declare their first innings at 316 for five before bowling out Maple for 188.
Pacer Khismar Catlin (5-73) did most of the damage for UWI, who posted 169 for six declared in their second innings.
Vincentian Miles Bascombe (39), Kyle Corbin (32) and Reifer (31 not out) were the leading second innings scorers for UWI.
Catlin then snared three for eight for a match-haul of eight for 81, and supported by Guyanese pacer Gilford Moore (3-21) and Jamaican spinner Gavin Wallace (2-46) to wreck Maple for 79 all out in their second innings after they were set 298 to win.
In other matches, former West Indies U-19 batsman Alcindo Holder scored 114 not out in Empire’s 10-wicket win over Pickwick, national left-hander Jonathan Carter stroked 89 not out to steer Banks to an eight-wicket win over BCL, and Kenroy Williams grabbed a second-innings five for 29 and Derick Bishop a match-haul of seven for 72 for St Catherine to beat Police by 157 runs.