BOWLERS PUT
Scoreboard
Guyana 1st innings 324

T&T 1st innings O/N 7-0

Jeremy Solozano b Paul 15

Keggan Simmons c Sinclair b Paul 15

Daren Bravo c Nandu b Beaton 15

Jason Mohammed
Jud Goolie c Anderson b Paul 22

Tion Webster c&b Permaul 0

Amir Jangoo c Sinclair b Permaul 18

Imran Khan b Permaul 2

Brian Charles c Bramble b Beaton 0

Uthman Muhammad not out

Justin Manick lbw b Beaton 0

Extras 22
Total: 160 all out)

FoW: 38, 51, 59, 117, 118, 150, 154, 155, 160, 160

Bowling
Paul 13-5-37-3, Smith 9-139-1, Beaton 13-3-31-3,

Sinclair 3-2-6-0, Permaul 14-5-36-3

Guyana 2nd innings
Matthew Nandu c Solozano b Khan 33

Tevin Imlach c Mohammed b Muhammad 3

Kevlon Anderson c Jangoo b Bravo

Kemol Savory not out 34

Leon Johnson not out 9

Extras 2
Total 96-3

Fow: 5, 31, 80

Bowling
Webster 6-2-15-0, Muhammad 5-0-16-1,

Bravo 5-0-12-1, Manick 4-0-13-0, Charles 9-1-23-0

Khan 5-0-16-1.

Beaton (4-31) Paul (3-37) & Permaul (3-36) put Guyana in control

By Sean Devers in Trinidad
ON another extremely hot day which resulted in several bush fires in South Trinidad, the Guyana Harpy Eagles were 96-3 in their second innings of the third round West Indies Championship match against Trinidad and Tobago Red Force when the second day’s play ended yesterday at Brian Lara Cricket Academy, a venue 30.8 miles from Port-of-Spain.

Leaders Guyana enjoys an overall lead of 260 runs with seven wickets in hand going into the penultimate day today.

The Red Force were dismissed for 160 with only Jason Mohammed, who made 50 from 103 balls with seven fours, and Jud Goolie (22) were the only batters to reach 20 as they shared in a 58-run fourth wicket stand.

Ronsford Beaton, who bowled with plenty of hostility, had 4-31 while Kemo Paul and Veerasammy Permaul had three wickets each for Guyana, who did not enforce the follow-on, enjoying a lead of 164-runs.

However, once again Guyana lost two early wickets to be 31-1 as Tevin Imlach (3) skied an upper cut high to point and for the second time in the game Daren Bravo removed debutant Kevlon Anderson (15).

Nandu and Savory added 49 to take the score to 80 before Imran Khan removed Nandu for 34 from 65 balls with four fours while Savory (34) and Skipper Leon Johnson (9) saw Guyana to close.

Earlier, resuming overnight on 7-0 in reply to Guyana’s 324, Jeremy Solozano and Keggan Simmons batted carefully on a track with some bounce.

With the score on 38, Simmons, who faced 58 balls for his 15, edged Paul to second slip as the batters were never allowed to score freely on the fast outfield.

Daren Bravo, the leading run-scorer in the tournament, having scored twin tons against the Leewards and, arguably the best batter in the tournament, looked in sublime form and got off the mark with a delicate flick for four as Beaton strayed on his legs.

The elegant left-hander, who turned 34 last month, cut Beaton for four before executing an imperious ‘Brian Lara like’ extra cover drive and the approximately 85 fans in the stands would have gotten their $20 entrance fee worth from that shot alone.

Solozano, who reached the boundary twice in his patient 15 from 61 balls, failed to cover the line of the ball and a played a loose drive off Paul and had his off-stump disturbed at 51-2 after the 50 was posted in 20 overs.

But the fired-up Beaton was bowling with genuine pace and aimed some fast short ball at Bravo’s rib-cage…not even the great Lara enjoyed balls in that area…and Bravo didn’t either; fending the ball over the head of Matthew Nandu at short-leg.

Nandu dived full length to his left to take a stupendous catch and the ‘big fish’ was caught for 12 at 59-3.

Mohammed’s first three scoring shots were boundaries off Paul.

Mohammed was then bowled by Nial Smith’s ‘no-ball’ on 15, but swivelled and disdainfully pulled the next ball for four as Smith pounded it in short.

At Lunch the score was 81-4 and after the interval Jud Goolie stroked Permaul gloriously past cover and back past him for boundaries, but like so many modern West Indian batters, he tried to pull one from Paul that ‘got big’ on him and lobbed a catch to mid-off when well set on 22 at 117-5

When Tion Webster was caught and bowled by Permaul for duck at 150-6, the last four wickets, which included Mohammed, who was ninth out, fell for 10 runs.

Beaton had the wickets of Brian Charles (0) gloving a wicked bouncer to the ‘keeper’ as he took evasive action, Mohammed who edged a catch to the Keeper and last man Justin Manick (0) LBW, while Permaul bowled Khan (2)