GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – Jamaica have taken full control over Trinidad and Tobago after the second day of their WICB Regional Under-19 Championship match at Everest Cricket Club yesterday. The Jamaicans extended their overnight 278 for six to 320 and then bowled out the Trinidadians for 136, to take a 184-run lead.
T&T closed the day on 52 runs for three wickets – still 134 runs away from making the Jamaicans bat a second time.
On a day when 17 wickets fell, Jamaica’s victory hunt was led by skipper Donavan Nelson. The left-handed middle-order batsman made a stroke-filled 55 in the morning session off 94 balls with two fours and two massive sixes.
When T&T batted in the first innings he returned with his accurate leg-spin to engineer a middle and lower-order collapse.
The West Indies Under-19 player returned the best figures of four for 41 from 12 overs as the T&T batsmen never came to grips with the turning ball.
He received good assistance from Ramon Senior who held three sharp catches at slip and picked up two wickets for nine runs with his off-breaks.
T&T did not help their cause with two run-outs in the first innings – opener Christian Herrera in the fourth over attempting a third run to deep point and Idrees Mohammed stranded at the bowler’s end after going for a risky second run to a stroke to deep square leg.
After being bundled out in the first innings, T&T started badly in the evening session with the Jamaican seamers doing the damage.
James McDonald, the six-foot, six-inch pacer, trapped Keon Joseph in front for 12 while Maarquino Mindley bowled down Herrera for six.
This left T&T on 23 for two but they got a steady partnership of 24 between Duane Cockburn (13) and Akeal Hosein (16 not out), before Cockburn was run-out just before the close from a direct hit from mid-off by the athletic Mindley.