PERSISTENT rain washed out the first and last sessions of the third round of the day/night CWI Regional First-Class game between Guyana Harpy Eagles (GHE) and West Indies Cricket Academy at the Providence Stadium last night.
When play was prematurely halted, Guyana were 73-3 with Jediah Blades taking all three wickets for 15 runs.
When play eventually started Guyana lost Kevlon Anderson for 22 and were 87-4 with Kemol Savory (17) and Kevin Sinclair (4) were the not-out batters on the rain-ruined day.
Scheduled to commence at 13:00 hours, showers washed out the entire opening season and play finally began at 15:50 hours. Guyana, who left out Richie Looknauth and Junior Sinclair, won the toss in very overcast conditions and opted to bat.

Test left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie returned to the team after missing the first two matches while 20-year-old GCC fast Thaddeus Lovell debuted.
Left-arm pacer, Blades pushed the defending Champs, with Tagenarine Chanderpaul (slit webbing) and Sharmar Joseph (rested due to shine splints) to 37-3 inside the first hour of play.
He first breached Matthew Nandu’s defence with that jabbed back sharply to bowl the left-hander for one at 18-1.

Blades then trapped Skipper Tevin Imlach (4) lbw at 31-2 before removing Raymond Perez for 29 with three boundaries to leave the home team on the ropes on 37-3.
On a still-fast outfield despite the downpour, Anderson and Savory who shared in a 185-run fourth-wicket in the first round against Barbados, joined forces in ‘operation re-build’ under angry-looking dark clouds.
Anderson played a couple of glorious cover drives while left- handed Savory cut Johann Layne behind point for four to post the 50.
Both batters looked good the longer they stayed at the crease and the rain stopped play at 17:35 hours and with the score on 71-3 an early dinner was taken.
Anderson was on 18 from 22 balls with four fours and Savory on 17 from 27 balls with three boundaries and their partnership was worth 37.
After a long break, the game resumed at 20:00 hours and Anderson (22) lbw to Johann Layne took Guyana 76-4 before Sinclair and Savory were at the crease when the rain had the final say at just before the rescheduled 21:00 hours conclusion.
Guyana is in second place .2 of a point behind the Leewards on 45.4 following outright wins against Barbados and Jamaica.
Play is expected to commence at 12:30 hours today weather permitting.