task on final day
..need 270 more to win; Bishoo ends with match haul of 10-120
DEVENDRA Bishoo took his second five wicket haul, as Guyana and Barbados were locked in battle for full supremacy at the end of the third day of their fifth round 2010 West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) President’s Cup match at the Albion Community Development Centre ground yesterday.
After bowling out their opponents for 403 in their first innings, Guyana who resumed the third day on their overnight score of 189-7 were bowled out for 229, as Tino Best took his 10th first class five wicket haul, ending with 6-65.  
The host team were pegged back into the match by Devendra Bishoo who took his second five wicket haul of the match, 5-45 to end with 10-120 as Barbados who declared their second innings closed on 154-9, set Guyana 329 to win, reducing them to 59-3 at the close, needing a further 270 for victory.  
Scores in the match so far Barbados 403 and 154-9 declared, Guyana 229 and 59-3.  
Earlier in the day, Guyana who resumed their first innings on 189-7 with Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Veerasammy Permaul on 23 and 8 respectively, lost Chanderpaul who was lbw to Best and despite a fighting 36 from Permaul, were bowled out for 229. 
Devendra Bishoo (04) joined Permaul who drove skipper Ryan Hinds (3-49) through cover point for four, but did not hung around to cause any trouble, when he presented the diminutive wicketkeeper Shane Dowrich with his first catch at the senior Regional level off Best, who bettered his season’s best of 5-41 against the Windward Islands in the previous round.  
Permaul continued to soldier on for Guyana who were on 209-4, with an audacious cover drive off Best followed by two inside out shot over extra cover off Hinds’ first delivery of a new over, as Guyana inched closer to their follow on target of 253, moving to 224-9.  
It was all over for Guyana, when Permaul was caught by Best at wide long off when he attempted to hit Sulieman Benn out of the ground, falling for a fighting 36 which was made off 47 balls and decorated with six fours from 50 minutes of batting, leaving Brandon Bess unbeaten on 1.  
Hinds who was roughed up by Permaul, took 3-49 for his team who opted to bat a second time instead of enforcing the follow on, despite having a 174 runs first innings lead after bowling out their opponents  within the first hour of the day’s play.
Openers Dale Richards (20, 3×4) and Kraigg Braithwaite (34) pushed the score to 29, before the latter who struck Bess for three fours in two overs, including two straight drives that would have taken the bowler’s ankle with it, was brilliantly caught by substitute Vishal Singh at point off Christopher Barnwell.  
The 23 year old Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) all rounder had a much better bowling performance with the ball in the visitor’s second innings after conceding 83 runs from just 18 overs in the first innings for his two wickets.  
But after he struck Jason Haynes, who replaced Richards, twice on his pads, was worked off the batsman leg followed by an authoritative drive through the covers for four as Barbados reached 45-1 at lunch with Braithwaite on 8 and Haynes 15, enjoying an overall lead of 219 with nine wickets in hand.  
The visitors batting looked purposeful after the luncheon interval against the all spin attack of skipper Sewnarine Chattergoon and first innings destroyer Bishoo, with Haynes recording a boundary off Chattergoon, before he was bowled for 21 made off 33 deliveries with four fours by the Guyanese skipper.  
The 28 year- old Chattergoon who surprised many with his controlled leg spin, struck again two overs later, removing his opposite number Hinds, thanks to a running catch by Rajendra Chandrika, leaving Barbados shakily placed on 56-3.
Two sweep shots by Braithwaite off Chattergoon and Permaul pushed his personal score to 29 and Barbados 89-3 in the 36th over of their second innings, with Kirk Edwards on 13.  
Vishal Singh who was substituting for Barnwell, got his second catch in the innings and third in the match to date, when he held onto an offer from Braithwaite who attempted to hit Permaul over long on, after batting for 143 minutes and facing 117 balls, hitting three of them for four in his resilient 34.  
Kirk Edwards who had added 41 for the fourth wicket with Braithwaite, was next to go caught by Chanderpaul at extra cover off Bishoo (5-45) who had Kevin Stoute (05)and Dowrich (02) caught low down by Chattergoon at first slip and wicketkeeper Derwin Christian respectively, leaving Barbados on 122-7, five minutes before tea on the third day.  
At tea, Barbados were 125-7 with Benn and Best being their not out batsmen on 05 and 00 respectively, as Guyana enjoyed their best session of the tournament to date, picking up six wickets for 80 runs from 36 overs, with Chattergoon who bowled unchanged throughout the session, sending down 18 of the overs.  
Bishoo got his fourth wicket and ninth of the match, when he knocked back the middle stump of Benn for 13 (1×4) and when Best (15) was caught and bowled by Bishoo two balls later, handing the right arm leg spinner his second five wicket haul of the match, Barbados declared their second innings close on 154-9.  
Needing to score 329 to record a come from behind victory, Guyana on the back of a hat- trick of boundaries from Chattergoon (20) struck off Best, gifted his wicket away caught by Braithwaite at midwicket two balls after hitting his third four off the same bowler, Guyana 34-1.  
Gajanand Singh (06) joined Chattergoon in the cool comforts of the pavilion when he was adjudged lbw to Collins and was closely followed by Chandrika who was caught by Richards at first slip pushing forward to Benn, leaving Guyana on 53-3.  
Bishoo replaced Singh and was joined by Royston Crandon who watched from the other end, as an outside edge from Bishoo flew between Benn and Hinds in the slip cordon for four to third man, as Guyana ended the day on 59-3 with Bishoo on 08 and Crandon yet to score.