BARBADOS completed a comfortable innings and 52-run victory over Guyana at the Everest Cricket Club ground yesterday, to finish in third position of this year’s West Indies Cricket Board’s Regional Under-19 three-day tournament. Guyana resumed on 143 for 9 with Gudakesh Kanhai-Motie and Lloydel Lewis on 7 and 5 respectively, looking for another 67 more runs to make the visitors bat again, but only got 15 of those from the 30 minutes of play, before Lewis was caught at the wicket off Chaim Holder’s first ball of the 62th over.
Scores in the match: 87 and 158 Barbados 297 for 8 declared
As was evident the previous day, Guyana’s lower order batting lineup looked more comfortable against the Barbadian bowling attack, with Kanhai-Motie, Lewis, Amir Khan and skipper Ronsford Beaton being the men responsible for Guyana’s final total in their second innings.
They took the score from 73 for 7 to its eventual total, with the last four batsmen ensuring 85 runs were added as they frustrated the Bajans with their solid defence to the good deliveries while the loose ones were dispatched with authority.
Kanhai-Motie steered Jerome Jones’ final delivery of the third over to third man for his lone boundary, before he attempted to sweep at a delivery from Holder, got an inside edge onto the pad and watched as the ball trickled onto his stumps, but as fate would have it, the bails remained steadfast.
His 10th wicket partnership with Lewis who made 9 gathered 23 runs for their team, leaving coach Hubern Evans with something to think about as the host team head into the limited overs version of the tournament which bowls off on Tuesday.
In their attempt to wrap up the home team’s innings quickly, Barbados used three bowlers during the 30 minutes of play, but it was Holder who did the trick when he had Lewis taken at the wicket, as he pushed tentatively forward to a ball that was pitched on the off stump.
Parris, Mayers, Greaves, Holder and Jones took two wickets each for 13, 16, 18, 36 and 37 runs respectively for Barbados whose skipper Kraigg Brathwaite chalked up his second ton at this level the previous day to set up the victory.
With Jamaica taking the three-day title the previous day following their innings and 77-run victory over defending champions Windward Islands and Trinidad and Tobago also defeating the Leeward Islands by an innings and 21 runs to finish second, Barbados were forced to settle for third while Guyana remained in fourth, Windward and Leeward Islands rounding off the top six positions.