ENCOURAGED by disciplined bowling from leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo and Narsingh Deonarine, Guyana Jaguars fought back gallantly to bowl out the Trinidad and Tobago Red Force on the opening day of their fourth round West Indies Cricket Board/Professional Cricket League Regional four- day encounter at the Queen’s Park Oval yesterday.

Scores to date: T&T Red Force 198, Guyana Jaguars 27 for 1.
Winning the toss and batting first against their guest who played the same team that suffered the infamous two runs defeat to Barbados Pride in the third round, the Red Force were coasting at 169 for 3 at tea before they were bowled out for 198 off 76.4 overs, with Bishoo (4-49) and Deonarine 3 for 24 doing the damage.
Asked to bat 11 overs before the close of play, the Guyana Jaguars who took full bowling points from their opponent’s dismal batting display, lost Trevon Griffith (08), caught at the wicket by Nicholas Pooran off Ryad Emrit at 13 for 1.
It was the lone success for the home team, as Rajendra Chandrika (11) and Shimron Hetmyer (04) carried the Jaguars to 27 for 1, needing 171 more for first innings lead when the action resumes on today’s second day.
The home team had an early setback when they batted, losing the wicket of Evin Lewis (02) lbw to Raymon Reifer at 8 for 1, before Lendl Simons and Yannick Ottley (14) added 45 for the second wicket that was broken when Christopher Barnwell had Ottley caught at the wicket by Anthony Bramble.
At lunch, T&T Red Force were 78 for 2 with Simmons on 49 inclusive of 11 fours, two of them back to back off Bishoo in the final over before the break and Yannick Cariah 6, his lone scoring shot over long on off Reifer.
After the break, Simmons got to his half century off 83 deliveries, whilst batting for 122 minutes, but was caught at the wicket by Bramble off Beaton for 59 (12×4, 101 balls) at 98 for 3 in the 33rd over.
Even though Cariah got two sweetly timed fours off Permaul and Bishoo midway through the second session, the slow scoring of the home team batsmen was sickening as they batted at the pedestrian pace of an octogenarian, going to tea at 143 for 3 off 52 overs.
Cariah was on 40 and Mohammed 17, the duo adding 45 from 20 overs bowled by the Jaguars after the dismissal of Simmons, while the team scored 55 runs during the post-tea session, but when play resumed, their wickets fell rapidly.
Mohammed displayed his aggressive side by hitting Bishoo over long off for six as they got to 150 off 56.1 overs, with Cariah on 41 and Mohammed 23, as their fourth wicket partnership reached 52 from 140 balls and 148 minutes of batting between the two.
Cariah on-drove Deonarine past a diving Rajendra Chandrika at midwicket to post his 50 off 153 minutes and 115 balls, with five fours and one six, but the bowler opened the flood gates for Bishoo and himself to invade, when he bowled Cariah in his next over, ending his 71 runs fourth wicket partnership with Mohammed.
Pooran (00) was smartly stumped by Bramble, one of five dismissals for the wicketkeeper off Bishoo one run later, Akeil Hosein (01) was bowled off the inside edge by Deonarine, while Bramble affected stumpings to dismiss Emrit (03) and Imran Khan (08) off Bishoo.
Daniel St. Clair was caught under the bat by Hetmyer for a first ball duck and Deonarine fittingly closed off proceedings when he knocked back the middle stump of Marlon Richards (00) at 16:26hrs, ensuring T&T Red Force lost their last seven wickets for 29 runs.

(By Calvin Roberts)

Scorecard
T&T Red Force 1st Innings

L Simmons c wkpr Bramble b Beaton 59
E Lewis lbw Reifer 02
Y Ottley c wkpr Bramble b Barnwell 14
Y Cariah b Deonarine 51
J Mohammed not out 48
N Pooran stp wkpr Bramble b Bishoo 00
A Hosein b Deonarine 01
R Emrit stp wkpr Bramble b Bishoo 03
I Khan stp wkpr Bramble b Bishoo 08
D St. Clair c Hetmyer b Bishoo 00
M Richards b Deonarine 00
Extras: (b-4, w-3, lb-4, nb-1) 12
Total (all out off 76.4 overs) 198
Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-53, 3-98, 4-169, 5-170, 6-171, 7-180, 8-197, 9-197, 10-198
Bowling Beaton 12-1-33-1Reifer 14-6-25-1(w-3) Barnwell 8-3-19-1 Permaul 14-1-39-0 Bishoo 16-4-49-4 (nb-1) Deonarine12.4-5-24-3

Guyana Jaguars 1st Innings

T Griffith c wkpr Pooran b Emrit 08
R Chandrika not out 15
S Hetmyer not out 04
Total (for 1 wkt off 11 overs) 27
Fall of wickets: 1-13
To bat: N Deonarine V Singh R Reifer C Barnwell A Bramble V Permaul D Bishoo R Beaton
Bowling: Richards 4-0-9-0 Emrit 5-2-14-1 St. Clair 2-1-4-0