WICB First-Class Cricket Franchise…Cariah unbeaten 70 hold up Jaguars at Providence

Mar 15, 2015 Sports

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By Sean Devers
Guyana Jaguars missed a third batting point by nine runs on the second

day of their eighth round West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Four-Day First-Class Cricket Franchise game against Trinidad & Tobago’s Red Force as Pacer Marlon Richards bowled a tidy spell after Lunch to help dismiss the Jaguars for 291 at Providence yesterday.
By the close the Red Force, spearheaded by a fluent 79-run third wicket partnership between 22-year-old Yannick Cariah (70*) and Kjorn Ottley (34), reached 173-4 when rain stopped play at 17:05hrs, 118 runs away from a first innings lead with six wickets in hand.
Vishaul Singh (52) and Anthony Bramble (63) extended their overnight stand to 96 as the hosts began the day on 264-6 and lost their last four wickets for nine runs as Richards, who hails from the Mining Town of Linden, picked up 3-46 on a placid surface.
Leg-spinner Imran Khan supported with 3-55 to take his tally in the tournament to 49 and break the record for most wickets in a season which was set in 1996 by leg-spinner Rajendra Dhanraj,

who claimed 47 scalps that year. Off-Spinner Jason Mohamed chipped in with 2-44.
When play resumed yesterday, the left-handed Singh and Bramble batted responsibly and Singh soon brought up his fifth half-century in his 20th First-Class match with his fourth boundary, a thick outside edge to third man. His third fifty in the tournament took 222 minutes and 152 balls and was a well compiled innings on a track already showing signs of variable bounce.
A heavy shower stopped play at 10:38hrs and after a delay of 42 minutes play resumed in sunny conditions. Bramble pulled Shannon Gabriel to the mid wicket boundary before the diminutive Singh was stupendously taken at slip by Cariah to give Richards his first scalp at 282-7. Singh’s innings took 171 balls, 304 minutes with four boundaries.
Bramble, whose half-century lasted 244 minutes, 181 balls with eight fours, top edged an impetuous pull off Richards high to mid-off at 283-8, while Devendra Bishoo was bowled by Gabriel for a duck without addition to the score as the Jaguars lost their way badly in the rain-hit first session yesterday.
Permaul, who has back-to-back fifties in the tournament including one against the Red

Force in Port-of-Spain, hammered Richards for consecutive boundaries before Richards scattered his stumps for nine as the lower order played with little ‘game awareness’ and lost an extra bonus point which they would have earned had they reached 300 in the first 110 overs.
When the Red Force began their reply, they lost talented 19-year-old left-hander Jermaine Solozano, caught at slip off Chris Barnwell for three with five runs on the board as his nightmare time on Guyanese soil continued.
At Lunch the score was 25-1 and after the break Khan (18) was caught behind in Narsingh Deonarine’s first over as the Red Force slipped to 33-2 despite some untidy work from fast bowler Keon Joseph who sent down 12 no-balls in six overs.
Ottley and Cariah played an array of attractive shots as the pair easily picked the gaps and by Tea the lads from Carnival Country were 104-2, still 188 away from first innings lead. Cariah was on 42 and Ottley on 29.
After the break, Ottley hammered part-time off-spinner Johnson for four before he lofted Bishoo to long-on, where Shiv Chanderpaul held the offering to send Ottley packing for 34 at 112-3 after the pair was just beginning to look threatening.
Jason Mohamed joined Cariah, who stroked Permaul sweetly through the covers with consummate ease and reached his fourth fifty at this level with a flowing square drive off Permaul. His fifty came from 115 balls, 127 minutes with five fours.
As one of the bands from the ‘Clash of the Titians’ Soca/Chutney concert which was held on the Tarmac of the Stadium last evening, warmed up, the Trinis must have felt right at home since that type of music is indigenous to the Twin Island Republic.
The small crowd in the Red Stand watched as Cariah tucked into the Jaguars’ bowlers with increasing relish as he moved closer to his maiden First-Class ton.
Mohamed, the only Trinidadian with a hundred this season, gave himself room and smashed Permaul to the backward point boundary before the left-arm spinner from Albion in Berbice, trapped him LBW next ball for 13 to leave the Red Force on 147-4.
With angry dark clouds hovering overhead and a strong breeze blowing across the ground, Yannick Ottley and Cariah batted cautiously until the skies ‘opened up’ and produced a colossal downpour to send the players scurrying off the field with 14 overs to be bowled in the day’s play, which never restarted.
Weather permitting play is scheduled to start 09:30hrs today.

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