KYLE Corbin’s century and a late burst from pacers Ojay Shields and Akeem Jordon put the CCC in the ascendency at the end of a rain-affected second day of their CWI first-class battle against the Guyana Harpy Eagles yesterday at the Providence Stadium.

Guyana were 166-6 at the close in reply to CCC’s 375, still, 56 runs away from avoiding the follow-on with four wickets in hand.
Corbin’s 102 lasted 204 balls and included 11 fours and a six, as Sharmar Joseph had 3-115, Renaldo Ali-Mohammed took 3-56 and Veerasammy Permaul grabbed 3-87 for Guyana.
CCC resumed the day on 279-6 with Corbin on 62 and Akeem Jordan yet to score.

A flurry of boundaries from the pair in overcast conditions saw the 300 being posted.

They carried the score to 317 before Joseph struck twice in the space of a run; Jordan (16) edged to wicket-keeper Tevin Imlach while Andre Bailey (0) was dismissed similarly to leave CCC on 318-8.
As the West Indies fast bowler, who missed the first match due to injury, punched the air in celebration, the dark clouds opened up resulting in play being halted at 10:45hrs with Corbin on 81.
An early lunch was taken and when play resumed at 13:00hrs, the Corbin and Avinash Mahabirsingh counter-attack saw the 350 posted.
Corbin seemed to lose concentration after the break but eventually bizarrely reached his second first-class century.

When on 98 he got a boundary through a misfield and then collapsed to the ground, dislocating his right shoulder.
Corbin was forced to retire hurt with CCC on 364 to be taken to the hospital, where his X-ray confirmed the dislocation.
However, he hopes to be fit enough to bat in the second innings.

Jordan (16) was caught behind off Joseph at 316-7 before the West Indies pacer, who missed the Pakistan tour due to injury, had Andre Bailey caught at first slip for a duck a run later.
Mahabirsingh continued to go after the bowling before Permaul bowled Shields for two at 375-9 to end the innings.
Guyana began their reply badly when Tagenarine Chanderpaul (4) was lbw to pacer Ojay Shields at 11 and Matthew Nandu (11) was bowled by Jordan at 29-2.
Raymond Perez (15) and Kevlon Anderson (19) took the score to 51 before Anderson walked across his wicket and seemed a bit unlucky to be given out lbw to Jordan.
Perez was caught at short-leg from the bounce and turn of Mahabirsingh to leave Guyana on 53-4 at tea.

In the final session, extended by an hour due to time lost to rain, Kemol Savory (12) was bowled by Shields at 78-5 as CCC controlled the game.
Kevin Sinclair joined Imlach and the pair just back from the Test series in Pakistan took the score to 116 before Sinclair tried to pull a short ball that ‘got big on him’ and was taken at mid-off after hitting three fours in his 19 as the defending champions slipped to 116-6.

Imlach, who has three centuries, soon reached his fourth 50 from 76 balls with five fours and along with Richie Looknauth (21), who took 16 balls to get off the mark after making a first-ball duck against Barbados, took Guyana to the close with a 50-run unbroken stand. Shields (3-42) and Jordon (2-33) have so far done the bulk of the damage for CCC.
The penultimate day today begins at 09:30hrs