Barbados register second consecutive win

Nov 15, 2008 Sports

USA go down by 110 runs on D/L system

Ryan Hinds

By Sean Devers
Barbados beat an inexperienced USA team by 110 runs on the Duckworth/Lewes system in their rain affected President’s Cup regional One-Day cricket match at the Guyana National Stadium yesterday to register their second win in as many games in the nine-team tournament in Guyana.

Ryan Hinds (84), Dale Richards (65) and Dwayne Smith (53) scored half centuries as Barbados reached 288-8 off their allotted 50 overs and then restricted USA, set a revised target of 259 from 42 overs after rain, to 149-9 off 42 overs to move to eight points from two matches.

Man-of-the-Match Hinds followed up his 56 in the opening round against defending champions Jamaica with a solid 62-ball 84 decorated with seven fours and two sixes and added 134 for the second wicket with Richards, who made 65 from 71 balls with five fours, after Patrick Browne (10) was removed by pacer Timroy Allen at 29-1 after Barbados had elected to bat on a slow track.

When Skipper Orlando Baker, who finished with 4-46 with his medium pace, had Richards stumped by Guyana-born Akeem Dodson at 163-2, the foundation for a big total had been already built in sunny conditions.

Another very small crowd saw Baker, a former Jamaica youth player, get rid of Hinds 20 runs later after both Hinds and Richards had been dropped twice by a team which had registered a upset win against them eight years ago when the USA first played in a regional one-day competition.

Jonathan Carter (18) was stumped by Dodson off Guyanese left-arm spinner Kumar Nandalall at 217-4 before Kenroy Williams (22) and Dwayne Smith (53) were sent packing by Baker in the space of two runs to leave Barbados, hunting their sixth title and first since 2002, on 279-6.

Smith, who batted well, hammered four fours and two sixes from 49 balls on the large ground and added 60 with Williams for the fifth wicket as the USA spinners allowed Barbados to accelerate after new ball bowlers Imran Awan and Allen had kept the batsmen in check with the new ball.

Twenty-eight extras aided the Bajan cause who put themselves in a strong position to restrict USA for less then 231 to collect a bonus point and less than 145 for two bonus points.

In the end, their decision not to be ultra attacking in the first part of the Canada innings and rain which caused the Duckworth Lewis system to be implemented, denied them joining Trinidad and Tobago and CCC, as the teams which collected bonus points from their games yesterday.

Gowkarran Roopnarine (2) was trapped leg before in the second over of the USA reply at 8-1 and without their leading batsman and Skipper Steve Massiah who missed the tournament due to work commitments in China, Canada were always going to be hard pressed to overhaul a 250 plus victory target.

Aditya Thyagarajan, who hails from India, played an array of fluent shots and like most good Indian batsmen, used his feet sweetly to the spinners in his top score of 42-from 61 balls with three boundaries and added 70 for the fifth wicket with Barrington Barckley (26) after the pair joined forces in overcast condition when debutant leg-spinner Nikolai Charles bowled Denis Evans for 14 at 44-4 to claim his first wicket at this level.

Charles, who bowled a lot slower and gave the ball more air in his second spell removed both Thyagarajan and Bartley in the 33rd over as two wickets tumbled at 114.

It was soon 114-7 in the next over when Tino Best had Dodson (0) brilliantly caught by Carter running back from short square-leg and although Cresser threw his bat around in his unbeaten 22, USA fell 110 runs short of their improbable target when their 42 overs expired in fading light.

Charles finished with 4-39 while Best, who bowled with pace but struggled with his control, supported with 3-27.

USA face Jamaica on Saturday in their next match at Everest while after two days of rest, Barbados will battle the Leeward Islands in their penultimate round game on Monday at Uitvlugt.

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