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TRINIDAD and Tobago’s Sunil Narine showed why he is regarded as the leading spinner in the Caribbean region when he decimated the over-anxious Guyanese who squandered a great platform for first-innings honours on the second day of their fourth round WICB Regional 4-Day competition at the Queen’s Park Oval yesterday . Narine’s magical spell from the Brian Lara Pavilion End at the southern side of the famous venue left Guyana in shambles from a great position of comfort at 156 for the loss of Assad Fudadin, lbw to pacer Shannon Gabriel for 29; to 195 for the loss of nine wickets at the close of play.
Teenaged Tagenarine Chanderpaul, enhanced his growing reputation and was a model of concentration and disciplined application; and in association with Leon Johnson they set the stage for Guyana to mount a serious challenge for first-innings points after pacers Paul Wintz (2 for 20 from five overs) and Ronsford Beaton (2 for 16 from eight overs) combined to dislodge Trinidad and Tobago’s final five wickets for an addition of 50 runs to their overnight total of 269 for 5 wickets.
Tagenarine can be referred to as ‘Lil Shiv’ in his batting mannerisms and approach to the two-innings variety and although he lost Fudadin early, he never wavered and found a valuable partner in Johnson and together they fashioned a stubborn heart-warming second-wicket partnership worth 134 runs with very few alarms from the still easy-paced track.
Left-handed Johnson deliberately assumed the senior role and carried the attack to the T&T’s bowlers who plugged away without much hint of dislodging the pair in their quest for a solid big partnership to carry Guyana to first innings points in the ‘Heavyweight First Class Clash’ with regional T20 champion on their own turf.
While Johnson appeared confident and comfortable in his strokeplay, Tagenarine displayed monumental patience in playing the supporting role admirably until after the tea interval when T&T’s skipper Denesh Ramdin signalled to Sunil Narine to operate from the Brian Lara Pavilion End.
Batting in similar style to his dad, Tagenarine entered into the forties after 212 minutes of obduracy, punctuated with few attacking shots.
In fact he had seven fours off 138 deliveries before Sunil Narine started Guyana’s slide into an embarrassing procession from the middle to the pavilion, which would have been transformed into a state of panic, as experienced Test and regional stalwarts lost their minds and wickets against the wiles and mystery of T&T’s finger-spinner. He was well supported by medium pacer Dwayne Bravo, who helped himself to two wickets including that of Narsingh Deonarine whose sense of urgency triggered the unfathomable collapse.
Sunil outfoxed Tagenarine who offered Dwayne Bravo a catch and departed for a well-played 42 and the score at 156 for two.
Kieron Pollard shared a little secret with Dwayne Bravo who forced Deonarine to drive straight to Sunil Narine at the cover region. Deonarine, who would have been hoping for a big score to reclaim his place in the West Indies Test team left the field dejected for a solitary run after facing three deliveries.
Ramnaresh Sarwan, also on a similar mission to regain the WI senior selectors’ faith in his ability to produce big scores at the highest level experienced nightmare as he faced the dreaded finger of Jamaican umpire Norman Malcolm after he missed a straighter and quicker delivery from Sunil, whose confidence soared and his mesmerising spell would haunt the Guyanese team for the rest of the match unless they learn their lesson and quickly resolve to change their panic-approach to high quality spin bowling.
It was a lesson displayed by ‘Lil Shiv’ and Johnson but not heeded by their over-ambitious compatriots.
Sarwan, like Deonarine, made one from four deliveries but there was still big hope that Guyana would have salvaged some pride and challenge the 319 made by Trinidad and Tobago.
However, Shivnarine Chanderpaul who has been the ‘Modern Atlas of the West Indies Team’ and the backbone for Guyana’s regional exploits; appeared to gain some measure of revenge against Sunil who dismissed his eldest son before he had registered his maiden first class fifty.
Johnson kept his composure while his more erstwhile colleagues committed hari-kari and embarrassed themselves.
The normally sedate ‘Big Shiv’ looked like a man on a mission and was in an attacking mood as he smashed two consecutive boundaries off Sunil’s bowling but he too had no answer to the Trinidadian mystery spinner who got the ball to grip the surface and bounced off the edge to the waiting hands of Darren Bravo. Much to the delight and jubilant Trinidadians who celebrated in style, knowing full well that Guyana’s greatest fighter lost the battle of nerves and strategy and the end of the resistance would be quicker than expected.
‘Big Shiv’ was too aggressive and paid the penalty and Guyana’s lower order succumbed in feeble fashion as Sunil Narine snapped up top-scorer Johnson (bowled for 87), Devendra Bishoo (caught and Bowled for 4) and skipper Veerasammy Permaul (caught by Gabriel for 1) to finish the day with astonishing figures of six wickets for 38 runs from 17 overs of which five were maidens.
Narine’s heroic display swung the pendulum firmly in favour of the homesters and they would now fancy their chances of establishing a big second innings lead today.
Dwayne Bravo (two for 37 from 12 overs) while Gabriel (one for 50 from 12 overs) were the other successful bowlers.
Johnson’s impressive batting performance was overshadowed by Guyana’s capitulation in the post-tea interval when eight wickets tumbled in quick succession.
His fighting 87 augurs well for the future and he struck one six and twelve fours off 147 balls during his 211 minutes of cricket education against a quality bowling attack which looked ordinary during the middle session when he and Tagenarine shared an unbroken 79-run partnership. Johnson’s 50 came up off 86 balls with eight fours while their overall second-wicket stand of 134 runs came up off 38 overs.
Earlier in the morning session, Guyana’s pacer Wintz and Beaton used the second new ball with telling effect as they knocked over the T&T’s lower including overnight batsmen Denesh Ramdin (75) and Imran Khan (44).
Wintz did the damage by removing Khan who did not add to his tally when he offered Fudadin a catch while he removed dangerman Ramdin with only nine added before he was caught behind by wicketkeeper Derwin Christian.
For his brave and untiring efforts, Beaton finished off the innings with the scalps of all-rounder Reyad Emrit (8) and Sunil Narine (caught Fudadin for 24) while Permaul claimed the final wicket – Shannon Gabriel (caught by Sarwan) to finish as Guyana’s leading bowler with four wickets for 62 runs from 23.2 overs.
Guyana’s bowling heroes and the splendid and painstaking efforts of Tagenarine Chanderpaul (42) and Johnson were undermined by unwarranted attacking batsmanship that brought about a major debacle that will affect them psychologically for sometime unless something special happens and the bowlers can emulate their Trinidadian counterparts and produce their own magic today.
On the other hand, T&T will strive to claim Guyana’s final wicket and capitalise on a sizeable lead to set the match up for full points. Another intriguing day’s play should evolve.
Teenaged Tagenarine Chanderpaul, enhanced his growing reputation and was a model of concentration and disciplined application; and in association with Leon Johnson they set the stage for Guyana to mount a serious challenge for first-innings points after pacers Paul Wintz (2 for 20 from five overs) and Ronsford Beaton (2 for 16 from eight overs) combined to dislodge Trinidad and Tobago’s final five wickets for an addition of 50 runs to their overnight total of 269 for 5 wickets.
Tagenarine can be referred to as ‘Lil Shiv’ in his batting mannerisms and approach to the two-innings variety and although he lost Fudadin early, he never wavered and found a valuable partner in Johnson and together they fashioned a stubborn heart-warming second-wicket partnership worth 134 runs with very few alarms from the still easy-paced track.
Left-handed Johnson deliberately assumed the senior role and carried the attack to the T&T’s bowlers who plugged away without much hint of dislodging the pair in their quest for a solid big partnership to carry Guyana to first innings points in the ‘Heavyweight First Class Clash’ with regional T20 champion on their own turf.
While Johnson appeared confident and comfortable in his strokeplay, Tagenarine displayed monumental patience in playing the supporting role admirably until after the tea interval when T&T’s skipper Denesh Ramdin signalled to Sunil Narine to operate from the Brian Lara Pavilion End.
Batting in similar style to his dad, Tagenarine entered into the forties after 212 minutes of obduracy, punctuated with few attacking shots.
In fact he had seven fours off 138 deliveries before Sunil Narine started Guyana’s slide into an embarrassing procession from the middle to the pavilion, which would have been transformed into a state of panic, as experienced Test and regional stalwarts lost their minds and wickets against the wiles and mystery of T&T’s finger-spinner. He was well supported by medium pacer Dwayne Bravo, who helped himself to two wickets including that of Narsingh Deonarine whose sense of urgency triggered the unfathomable collapse.
Sunil outfoxed Tagenarine who offered Dwayne Bravo a catch and departed for a well-played 42 and the score at 156 for two.
Kieron Pollard shared a little secret with Dwayne Bravo who forced Deonarine to drive straight to Sunil Narine at the cover region. Deonarine, who would have been hoping for a big score to reclaim his place in the West Indies Test team left the field dejected for a solitary run after facing three deliveries.
Ramnaresh Sarwan, also on a similar mission to regain the WI senior selectors’ faith in his ability to produce big scores at the highest level experienced nightmare as he faced the dreaded finger of Jamaican umpire Norman Malcolm after he missed a straighter and quicker delivery from Sunil, whose confidence soared and his mesmerising spell would haunt the Guyanese team for the rest of the match unless they learn their lesson and quickly resolve to change their panic-approach to high quality spin bowling.
It was a lesson displayed by ‘Lil Shiv’ and Johnson but not heeded by their over-ambitious compatriots.
Sarwan, like Deonarine, made one from four deliveries but there was still big hope that Guyana would have salvaged some pride and challenge the 319 made by Trinidad and Tobago.
However, Shivnarine Chanderpaul who has been the ‘Modern Atlas of the West Indies Team’ and the backbone for Guyana’s regional exploits; appeared to gain some measure of revenge against Sunil who dismissed his eldest son before he had registered his maiden first class fifty.
Johnson kept his composure while his more erstwhile colleagues committed hari-kari and embarrassed themselves.
The normally sedate ‘Big Shiv’ looked like a man on a mission and was in an attacking mood as he smashed two consecutive boundaries off Sunil’s bowling but he too had no answer to the Trinidadian mystery spinner who got the ball to grip the surface and bounced off the edge to the waiting hands of Darren Bravo. Much to the delight and jubilant Trinidadians who celebrated in style, knowing full well that Guyana’s greatest fighter lost the battle of nerves and strategy and the end of the resistance would be quicker than expected.
‘Big Shiv’ was too aggressive and paid the penalty and Guyana’s lower order succumbed in feeble fashion as Sunil Narine snapped up top-scorer Johnson (bowled for 87), Devendra Bishoo (caught and Bowled for 4) and skipper Veerasammy Permaul (caught by Gabriel for 1) to finish the day with astonishing figures of six wickets for 38 runs from 17 overs of which five were maidens.
Narine’s heroic display swung the pendulum firmly in favour of the homesters and they would now fancy their chances of establishing a big second innings lead today.
Dwayne Bravo (two for 37 from 12 overs) while Gabriel (one for 50 from 12 overs) were the other successful bowlers.
Johnson’s impressive batting performance was overshadowed by Guyana’s capitulation in the post-tea interval when eight wickets tumbled in quick succession.
His fighting 87 augurs well for the future and he struck one six and twelve fours off 147 balls during his 211 minutes of cricket education against a quality bowling attack which looked ordinary during the middle session when he and Tagenarine shared an unbroken 79-run partnership. Johnson’s 50 came up off 86 balls with eight fours while their overall second-wicket stand of 134 runs came up off 38 overs.
Earlier in the morning session, Guyana’s pacer Wintz and Beaton used the second new ball with telling effect as they knocked over the T&T’s lower including overnight batsmen Denesh Ramdin (75) and Imran Khan (44).
Wintz did the damage by removing Khan who did not add to his tally when he offered Fudadin a catch while he removed dangerman Ramdin with only nine added before he was caught behind by wicketkeeper Derwin Christian.
For his brave and untiring efforts, Beaton finished off the innings with the scalps of all-rounder Reyad Emrit (8) and Sunil Narine (caught Fudadin for 24) while Permaul claimed the final wicket – Shannon Gabriel (caught by Sarwan) to finish as Guyana’s leading bowler with four wickets for 62 runs from 23.2 overs.
Guyana’s bowling heroes and the splendid and painstaking efforts of Tagenarine Chanderpaul (42) and Johnson were undermined by unwarranted attacking batsmanship that brought about a major debacle that will affect them psychologically for sometime unless something special happens and the bowlers can emulate their Trinidadian counterparts and produce their own magic today.
On the other hand, T&T will strive to claim Guyana’s final wicket and capitalise on a sizeable lead to set the match up for full points. Another intriguing day’s play should evolve.
