Umpiring error helps Hinds (134) continue prolific season

Feb 07, 2009 Sports

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Barbados reach 298-4 against Guyana on opening day

By Sean Devers in Barbados In association with Carib Beer, TCL, Hanes & Trophy Stall

On the birth anniversary of the late great Jamaican singer Bob Marley, former West Indies left-hander Ryan Hinds was yesterday given a massive gift when on 25 by Umpire Clancy Mack who turned down a raucous appeal after a ball from Chris Barnwell almost broke the edge of his bat on its way to the keeper.

Hinds, who became the first batsman this season to reach 500 runs when he got to his fifty, batted beautifully against a Guyana bowling attack missing injured left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul and made the Guyanese pay dearly for the umpiring error with an attractive ninth First-Class hundred.

By the time bad light stopped play on the opening day of the fifth round West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) regional four-day First-Class match between Guyana and Barbados at the Windwards ground in rural Barbados at 17:47hrs with eight overs remaining to be bowled yesterday, the hosts were 298-4, with Skipper Jason Haynes unbeaten on a dogged 89 from 222 balls, 323 minutes with six fours.

Dwayne Smith, who has hit five fours and a six from 64 balls and 81 minutes, was with him at the close, undefeated on his first fifty in his last six matches at this level.

Hinds’ 134 lasted 141 balls, 205 minutes and was decorated with 21 fours and a six and he dominated a 196-run second wicket partnership with Haynes.

This was after pacer Brandon Bess had induced West Indies under-19 opener Rashidi Boucher to glove a leg-side catch to the keeper in the day’s second over before Barbados had scored.

Guyana invited Barbados to bat first on a track with some early assistance for the pacers and quickly removed Boucher. But Hinds got going with three consecutive pulls behind square for boundaries off Bess even as Haynes struggled to put bat on ball at the other end.

Struck on his arm by a vicious bouncer from the 21-year-old Bess, Haynes was beaten consistently outside off-stump by the West Berbice fast bowler who again bowled with genuine pace.
While the lively Bess attacked from the Southern end, Esuan Crandon, used as the stock bowler, kept things tight at the other end.

Barnwell would have certainly called for a television review had it been available at this level after a raucous appeal was ignored after Hinds got an obvious edge as he pulled at the medium pacer with the score on 33-1.

A sharp shower sent the players scurrying off the field at 11:00hrs and intensified, resulting in an early lunch being taken with Barbados on 35-1 with the left-handed pair of Hinds (25*) and Haynes (9*) at the crease.

Play re-started at 13:05hrs and six overs were deducted from the stipulated 90 in the day’s play.
Haynes looked much more positive after the break, driving Bess down the ground for a boundary and cutting him elegantly to point. Guyana began the second season without their leading spinner as Permaul, who was injured while fielding at mid-on just before lunch, received two stitches on the split webbing on his bowling hand.

Hinds pulled Crandon for four to mid-wicket and followed it up with an audacious straight driven boundary next ball while Haynes, whose confidence increased as his innings progressed, also found his touch on the slightly heavy outfield.

Watched by a small crowd in windy conditions, the Barbados second wicket pair repaired the early damage with sensible batting with Hinds reaching his half-century from 58 balls, 91 minutes with nine fours.

Hinds continued his wonderful season by greeting leg-spinner Davendra Bishoo first ball with a savagely pulled boundary. He then stroked him through the covers for another four with an impeccable cover drive.
Hinds hooked Barnwell just over the head of Esuan Crandon at long-leg for a six as ominous clouds circled the Windwards sward.

The 27-year-old Hinds took a liking to Bishoo and smashed him through the covers and back past him for successive fours to race into the 90s.

When Hinds reached his ton from 104 balls, 150 minutes with 16 fours and a six, the subdued Haynes had just managed 29 runs but their partnership was an important one for the Bajans who are eying their first championship at this level since 2005 when Courtney Browne led them to the First-Class double.

With his score on 113, Hinds, showing signs of tiring, hit Esuan Crandon straight to Barnwell at mid-on where the ‘sitter’ was grassed. The left-hander, who averages 24.11 with two fifties from 10 Tests, added insult to injury with a pugnacious cross-batted drive to the long-on boundary next ball. By tea, Barbados had progressed to 168-1 with Hinds on 119 and Haynes on 42.

After the break Hinds, who also seemed lucky not to be given out caught behind by Umpire Andrew Corbin off Bishoo on 77, clobbered Crandon for two punishing fours off successive balls while the more sedate Haynes eventually reached his fifty from 134 balls, 208 minutes with just three fours.

An exhausted looking Hinds was soon bowled off the inside edge by Royston Crandon at 196 as the sun returned in all of its glory.

Jonathan Carter joined Haynes and the pair carried Barbados to 205 before Carter (4) was leg-before to an arm-ball from off-spinner Narsingh Deonarine. Two runs later Rohan Nurse (2) was leg before to a googlie from Bishoo.

Smith joined his Skipper, who made 111 when Barbados beat Guyana by an innings and 57 runs when they last played at this level (last year at Kensington Oval), and together they added 90 by the close in an unfinished fifth wicket partnership.

Guyana left out Steven Jacobs and Hoomchand Pooran from their starting eleven while Barbados left out Barrington Yearwood and Kevin Stoute.

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