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WICB PCL Cricket …Motie’s 11 wicket haul helps Jaguars roar to big win
Hurricanes beaten with two sessions to spare
By Sean Devers
Defending champions Guyana Jaguars registered their second successive win in this season’s WICB PCL four-day cricket Franchise when they roared to an emphatic innings & 35-run win on the final day of their second round match against the Leewards Hurricanes at Providence yesterday.
Gudakesh Motie spun webs around the Hurricanes’ batsmen to finish with 11 wickets in the match.
After the Hurricanes’ ‘fight back’ on Sunday after being dismissed for 85 in reply to the Jaguars’ 419-9 declared, the final day began with much promise for the Leewards but their hopes of making the Jaguars bat again came crashing down and by Lunch the game was over.
Former West Indies U-19 left- arm spinner Gudakesh Motie, bowling with refreshing ‘loop’ and excellent variety, took 5-85 from 39 overs to add to his 6-20 in the first innings, while off-spinner Steven Jacobs, who took two four-wicket hauls in the first round, supported with 3-97 from 30 overs.
The 28-year-old Nkrumah Bonner provided stern resistance for the Hurricanes with an entertaining 89 from 171 minutes, 168 balls with 14 fours and a six but departed when he was 19 runs short of his second First-Class century.
Vice-Captain Vishaul Singh, who built the foundation for the Jaguars’ victory with a magnificent 150 in his team’s 419-9 declared was named Man-of-the-Match.
The Leewards began the day on a respectable 215-3 with just 119 more needed to avoid an innings defeat with Bonner on 58 and Orlando Peters (25) anxious to build on their fourth wicket stand which was already worth 80.
But Jacobs ensured the visitors, hoping to at least get the 334 runs to make the host bat again, had the worst possible start when he had the solid Peters caught behind off the day’s first ball.
Vishaul Singh scored 150 against the Hurricanes to cop the Man-of-Match award.
Bonner and Steve Liburd kept hopes alive of extending the game well into day with a nice little partnership on the flat track in glorious sunshine.
Bonner, a stylish right-hander from the Caribbean’s largest English speaking Island, Jamaica, played some enterprising shots none better than a couple of exquisitely timed drives through extra cover in an over from left-arm Bajan pacer Raymon Reifer which reached the ropes likes bullets.
But just when Bonner seemed well set for a big score he was beaten by the teasing flight of Motie and drove a catch to Shiv Chanderpaul at short extra cover to be dismissed at 254-5.
Bonner’s departure triggered an all too familiar Leewards collapse which saw the last six wickets tumbling for 46 runs despite a gritty 25 from 59 balls with five fours from Jaison Peters who was last out, LBW to Jacobs, to formalize the victory.
Motie, in the meantime, added his name to list of Guyanese with 10-wicket hauls in First-Class cricket as the 20-year removed Liburd (10), Rahkeem Cornwall (3) and Gavin Tonge (10) to complete his second five-wicket haul in only his second match at this level.
Motie joined his Albion team mates Veerasammy Permaul (3) and Devendra Bishoo (1) as the only Guyana with a 10-wicket haul in First-Class cricket at Providence
The win extended the Jaguars unbeaten streak to nine matches which started after the third round two-run loss to Barbados last year and took them to 35 points in this tournament.
The front runners in the tournament will take on Barbados Pride in their next game from Friday at Providence.
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