(CMC) – Monumental batting from Amir Jangoo, Roston Chase, and Tevin Imlach upstaged destructive spells from Gilon Tyson, Rahkeem Cornwall, Amari Goodridge, and Veerasammy Permaul in the West Indies Championship on Thursday.

Hosts Combined Campuses & Colleges Marooners stumbled to a shaky 109 for five in their first innings, after Jangoo defied rookie pacer Goodridge and converted his maiden first-class hundred into a double century of 218, and Trinidad & Tobago Red Force declared on 591 for seven on the second day of the sixth round of matches.

Leaders Leeward Islands Hurricanes were replying strongly on 97 for one in their first innings, after Chase overcame Cornwall’s disruptive off-spin bowling and cracked 127, his first first-class hundred in more than five years, before Barbados Pride declared on 542 for nine.

Hosts Jamaica Scorpions were 153 for nine, replying to the Guyana Harpy Eagles first innings total of 424, after Veerasammy Permaul followed up a third first-class hundred from his captain Tevin Imlach and undermined their batting with his crafty left-arm spin bowling.

And, left-arm spinners Joshua Bishop and Ashmead Nedd had Windward Islands Volcanoes wobbling on 165 for seven in their second innings – a lead of 169 – after Tyson undermined the batting of hosts Cricket West Indies Academy with his lethal spell.

Pacers Terrance Hinds and Anderson Phillip tightened the grip of the Red Force after they declared about 40 minutes before tea in their match at Frank Worrell Field on the St Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies in Trinidad.

Hinds ended the day with two for 15 from six overs, and Phillip grabbed two for 29 from 11 overs to lead the Red Force bowling.
Kamil Pooran, the younger brother of West Indies left-hander Nicholas Pooran, has so far led the way for the Marooners with 40.
Jangoo, who made his first-class debut seven years ago and played 11 matches in the championship for Hurricanes between 2020 and 2022, was not out on 151 when the Red Force started the day on 374 for four.

He batted through to reach 197 at lunch when the Red Force were 486 for five, and he duly completed his landmark from 231 balls when he pulled Goodridge through mid-wicket for the last of his 15 fours in the second over after the interval.

Jangoo added 150 for the sixth wicket with Red Force captain Joshua Da Silva, the West Indies Test wicketkeeper-batsman, before Goodridge got him to end with five for 92 from 22 overs, and precocious teenaged leg-spinner Zishan Motara removed Da Silva in the next over for 79.

An unbroken eighth wicket stand of 65 between Hinds, not out 35, and Khary Pierre, not out 26, heaped further grief on the Marooners attack.
West Indies white-ball batsman Keacy Carty continued his love affair with the Pride bowling and was not out on 64 to lead the Hurricanes reply so far after they lost long-serving left-handed opener Kieran Powell lbw to left-arm pacer Raymon Reifer for three in the third over.

Opener Mikyle Louis, the Hurricanes’ most prolific batsman this season, was not out on 25, and he has put on 92 unbroken for the second wicket with Carty to set up an intriguing third day at the Queen’s Park Oval in the Trinidad & Tobago capital of Port of Spain.

Chase had come to the crease inside the first hour after Pride resumed from their overnight total of 248 for three, and he struck 10 fours and seven sixes from 87 balls in a whirlwind innings that lasted a little more than 2-3/4 hours, becoming the third batsman to score hundreds in the innings.

He batted through lunch to put on 180 with Pride and West Indies Test captain Kraigg Brathwaite, before becoming a scalp of left-arm spinner Daniel Doram.
Brathwaite made 189 that included 17 fours from 400 balls in 10 hours at the crease and was the glue that held the innings together, but he was one of four wickets – three to Cornwall – that fell for 38 following the afternoon drinks break that hastened the declaration.

Cornwall finished with five for 132 from 33 overs.
Permaul followed up strong batting from his side with a spell of five for 55 from 21 overs, and West Indies Under-19 pacer Isai Thorne supported with two for 19 from eight overs to rock the Scorpions batting at Sabina Park in the Jamaica capital of Kingston.
West Indies white-ball batsman Brandon King has so far hit the top score of 32, former West Indies Under-19 captain Ramaal Lewis made 24, and wicketkeeper-batsman Romaine Morris was not out on 21.

Imlach, the Harpy Eagles captain, had retired hurt before returning late the previous day and was 33 not out when his side started the day on 278 for seven.
He followed up a top score of 155 from Kemol Savory with an undefeated 101 that included 11 fours and two sixes from 169 balls in a little more than 4-1/2 hours at the crease.

Savory was not out on 127 overnight and put on 154 for the eighth wicket with Imlach before he fell in the hour before lunch to off-spinner Peat Salmon.
Pacer Ojay Shields was the most successful Scorpions bowler with four for 103 from 23 overs, Salmon took three for 117 from 29 overs, and leg-spinner Abhijai Mansingh grabbed two for 50 from 13.3 overs.

Bishop bagged a miserly two for 30 from 22 overs, and Nedd supported with two for 32 from 19 overs, and the Volcanoes batting flopped again after an 82-run, fourth wicket stand between the West Indies Test pair of Alick Athanaze and Kavem Hodge at the Coolidge Cricket Ground in Antigua.

Athanaze has hit the top score so far of 89 and Hodge made 41, but the two spinners and two careless run outs opened the door for a CWI Academy fight-back.
Tyson took five for 50 from 13.4 overs, and the Academy were bowled out for 158 in their first innings to concede a lead of four.