PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, (CMC) – Off-spinning all-rounder Roston Chase conjured up a brilliant seven-wicket burst to complete a second ten-wicket haul in first class cricket, as Barbados Pride marched to a nine-wicket win over Leeward Islands Hurricanes late on Saturday’s final day.

The 32-year-old Chase, who hit a hundred in the Pride first innings, finished with seven for 67 and match figures of ten for 114, an effort which sent a defiant Hurricanes to 311 all out in their second innings at Queen’s Park Oval, in their sixth round match of the West Indies Championship.

Resuming the morning on 98 for one – still 156 runs behind after being asked to follow on – Hurricanes got half-centuries from rookie opener Mikyle Louis (80); West Indies white-ball stroke-maker Keacy Carty (69) and West Indies leg-spinner Hayden Walsh (60).

However, Chase accounted for all three, as Hurricanes finally succumbed in the final session, leaving Pride with an uncomplicated target of 58 for victory.
Captain Kraigg Brathwaite, who made 189 in the first innings, then struck an unbeaten 30 off 38 balls with four fours as Pride collected their fourth win of the campaign, to remain in contention for the title ahead of next week’s final round.

Unbeaten on 45 at the start, Louis forged a second wicket stand of 88 with Carty, who was yet to face a ball after Kieran Powell was dismissed for 52 with the final delivery of Friday’s penultimate day.

The 23-year-old Louis, already with a half-century in the first innings, counted eight fours and two sixes in a knock lasting 194 balls, as he passed 500 runs (549) in his maiden first class season, while Carty faced 112 deliveries and struck five fours and a six.

Chase got the breakthrough in the fourth over before lunch when he got Louis to tug a return catch off a short ball, leaving Hurricanes on 192 at the break.

After lunch, Chase scythed through the Hurricanes innings as six wickets tumbled for 56 runs, Carty among the casualties, clipping an innocuous Chase delivery to Kevin Wickham at short mid-wicket to be seventh out.

Walsh counter-attacked, belting four fours and three sixes in a 92-ball stay and helping to add 34 for the ninth wicket with Colin Archibald (10), before Chase knocked over both.