… Debutant snares 2nd innings 7-56, Jaguars need 27 for victory with 1 wicket remaining

By Clifton Ross

JAMAICA Scorpions spinner Peter Salmon bagged 7 wickets which left Guyana Jaguars in need of a dire miracle, as they require 27 runs for victory with just one wicket left in the bank when the final day’s play bowls off.

Resuming at 50-3 on Day 3, Scorpions crashed to another low total as they were kept to 184 in their second innings. Middle-order batsman Nkrumah Bonner kept things by crunching five fours in his top score of 57 not out.
Jaguars star left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul continued his collection of wickets, bagging magical second-innings figures of 6-50 to go along with his 1st innings’ four victims.

The pendulum swung in favour of the visitors, as the champs were in a tricky situation when umpires lifted bails on the penultimate day, reeling at 155-9 with Permaul 20 not out off 60 and Keon Joseph 5*, looking to pull off a miracle today.
Pursuing 182 runs for their second straight win at home, the Jags lost big guns Tagenarine Chanderpaul (12), Chandrapaul Hemraj (13), Leon Johnson (19) and Vishaul Singh (0), after being 48-2 at the tea break.

Salmon removed three of the four initial wickets to fall before bagging another huge wicket of Chris Barnwell (12) who succumbed to the lbw decision.
The debutant continued with his bag of tricks. He accounted for the further dismissals of Reifer (13), Anthony, Sinclair (13) and Niall Smith (0) who was trapped lbw – putting the spinner on hat-trick.

Guyana’s innings ended calmly after the pair of Permaul and Joseph managed to negate the Scorpions bowlers to set up a thrilling final day.
John Campbell (31) who departed prior to stumps on Day 2 along with spinner Jamie Merchant who stroked five boundaries down the order for his 26, along with 19 apiece from Assad Fudadin and Derval Green headlined a relatively ordinary batting card for the Scorpions.

Off-spinner Sinclair snatched 2-56 and left-arm medium Reifer (2-19) lent ideal support to the left-arm spinner during their outing.
Scorpions resumed with three batters back in the pavilion but Bonner led a slight resistance on his way to the mini milestone.

After Permaul pulled out the tricks, the Jamaica lower-order found it difficult to cope with the former Windies Test spinner, who recorded another career 10-fer as he cleaned up the tail.
Action continues today from 10:00hrs.