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Regional Super50 cricket…Narine spins T&T into semis as Jamaica lose by 37 runs on D/L system
By Sean Devers
Twenty-three year-old Trinidad and Tobago off-spinner Sunil Narine continued to torment batsmen in this year’s Regional Super50 cricket competition by grabbing 5-37 yesterday at Everest to spin Jamaica to a 37-run defeat on the Duckworth/Lewis system and a place against Guyana in tomorrow’s semi-final at Providence.
Dwayne Bravo returned from a leg injury after retiring hurt on 12 to hit five fours and a six from 78 balls in 55 and got support from Jason Mohamed (43) as T&T were limited to 196-8 off 50 overs on a slow track with plenty of assistance for the spinners.
Narine then followed up his 6-48 against the Leeward Islands with another impressive 10-over spell as he opened the bowling with leg-spinner Samuel Badree (2-37) as the Jamaicans, set a revised target of 191 in 40 overs, limped to 154-9 after the early demise of Chris Gayle for a run-a ball 31 with two fours and three mighty sixes in the rain interrupted game.
Gayle, who hit his first century (147) on Guyanese soil on Saturday, saw Kennar Lewis (6) taken at short leg and Xavier Marshall stumped for duck at 11-2 before he lofted Badree for a four and two huge sixes in an over to the delight of a large working day crowd, most of whom turned out to see the former West Indies Skipper bat.
Narine, who now has 12 wickets in the competition, removed Gayle at 41-3 although replays suggested that the ball, which bounced and turned, missed the bat and like on previous occasions when the champion left-hander fell early his team collapsed.
Tamar Lambert finished unbeaten on 47 but struggled to score freely and with his running between the wickets and when Andre Russell, who smashed seen fours from 26 balls in a cameo 31, was run out in a mix-up with Lambert at 108-7, Jamaica already assured of a semi-final place regardless of the outcome of yesterday’s match, were in deep trouble.
After Narine took the wickets of Shawn Findlay (2) and Chadwick Walton (0) to leave Jamaica on 46-5, prospects of him bettering Pedro Collins’ record of 7-11 for Barbados against the West Indies under-19s at Blairmont in 2007 looked a great.
Dave Mohamed, in the side due to the absence of Kieron Pollard who has been ruled out of the competition due to a fractured wrist, removed West Indies batsman Danza Hyatt (8) and Santokie (2) also bowled well for T&T who won the title on the last two occasions the competition was played in Guyana in 2008 & 2009.
Earlier, T&T lost both of their openers with the score on 28 and when Skipper Daren Ganga (29) was removed by Browne at 79-3 the Trinidadians were struggling to get the ball away against controlled pace bowling from Russell (2-39) and Santokie, while left-arm spinner Nikita Miller, who removed the injured Bravo just when he was beginning to look ominous, had 3-32 from 12 overs.
After Jason Mohamed fell to Russell at 178-7 the T&T innings never gathered momentum as the Jamaicans, who won the last of their five titles in 2007, produced a good day in the field. Narine’s good work and uninspiring batting ensured the Jamaicans did not finish the preliminary round unbeaten.
T&T, with one more title than Guyana’s nine, face the hosts tomorrow at Providence in semi-final one, while zone leaders Jamaican battle HPC in the second semi-final at the same venue from 13:30hrs on Thursday.
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