WICB PCL Cricket…Shiv (82), Barnwell (79), Reifer (64) keep Jaguars on top after Fudadin completes fifth ton

Dec 07, 2015 Sports

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By Sean Devers in Trinidad
In association with Noble House Seafoods,
Stag Beer & Cascadia Hotel

In sweltering heat at the Queen’s Park Oval yesterday T&T’s Red Force, set 265 to avoid an innings defeat, reached 51-2 and will hope for rain or an improved batting performance today to deny Guyana Jaguars their fourth consecutive win in their WICB PCL four-day First-Class Franchise match.

The Red Force are still 214 away from making the Jaguars bat again with eight wickets in hand after the Jaguars extended their overnight 233-3 to 475.
The hosts have already lost Jeremy Solozano (1) LBW to Raymon Reifer and Yannick Cariah (16) caught off Veerasammy Permaul at 32-2 but Narsingh Deonarine (10) joined Kyle Hope (22) took their team to close.
Scores: Red Force (210 & 51-2) Jaguars (475).
The Red Force bowlers toiled long and hard as Assad Fudadin completed his fifth century (102) and veteran Shiv Chanderpaul continued his liking for T&T’s bowling with well constructed 82 to help the Guyana Jaguars post their fourth consecutive 300-plus total from as many games with two of those totals being over 400.
Chris Barnwell (79) and Raymon Reifer (64) also scored fifties as the Jaguars ended the penultimate day against the Red Force in Carnival Country in the driver’s seat.
Fudadin’s ton lasted 257 balls, 349 minutes and included seven fours and two sixes while the 41-year-old Chanderpaul took 195 minutes, 182 balls for his 82 which was decorated with seven fours.
The last time Chanderpaul played against this team he made an unbeaten 69 at Providence, while the last time he faced T&T in Trinidad, he scored 108 in March 2013 when he and his son Tagenarine, became only the second Father/Son pair to play in a Regional First-Class match after Sir Learie Constantine and his father became the first.
Chanderpaul added 66 for the fourth wicket with Fudadin and 74 for fifth with Reifer but fell 18 short of his 72nd First-Class hundred as he played with a lot more urgency than in the recent past.
Barnwell made 79 from 98 balls, 124 minutes with 11 fours and added 124 with Reifer who scored 64 from 230 minutes, 184 balls with five fours to compound the Red Force misery.
The day started in gorgeous sunshine with Fudadin on 94 and Chanderpaul on 22 with the Jaguars enjoying a lead of 23 on 233-3.
The left-handed Fudadin began positively, stroking pacer Marlon Richards behind point for a couple off the fifth ball of the day’s first over before a sublime cover drive raced to the ropes off the next ball to bring up Fudadin’s ton. It was his first since his 103 for West Indies ‘A’ against Sri Lanka ‘A’ in October 2014 in Sri Lanka.
Uthman Muhammad then captured his first scalp at this level when Fudadin pushed forward and touched one that left him to the keeper to leave the Jaguars on 249-4 in the eighth over.
Reifer joined Chanderpaul who smashed Muhammad for four when he bowled short and wide on an easy paced track before stroking Imran Khan’s first ball of the day to the mid-wicket boundary.
The experienced left-hander then tucked Khan for a single behind square to register his 132nd First-Class fifty and celebrated with an exquisitely timed push through cover off Khan for four before again reaching the boundary with a deft flick past the keeper to move into the 60s.
Reifer supported Chanderpaul who grew in confidence after passing his second fifty for the season and an extra cover driven boundary off Khan just before lunch, which took the former West Indies Captain into the 80’s, was as authoritative as any he has played in his 21 years at this level.
But eight before minutes Lunch the ‘Tiger’ from Unity wearing a Jaguar’s uniform, was trapped LBW to Khan at 323-5.
Barnwell joined Reifer who hit Deonarine for four, while Barnwell clobbered Khan back over his head for a boundary and at Lunch the Jaguars had reached 336-5 to extend their lead to 126 runs with five wickets in hand.
Reifer was on 27 and Barnwell on seven as the Jaguars scored 103 runs in the session and lost two wickets to maintain their ascendency.
After Lunch Barnwell started in explosive fashion hitting the first two balls from Muhammad for boundaries before the debutant pacer responded with a bouncer which Barnwell ducked under. Muhammad again bowled short and this time the DCC right-hander executed a pugnacious pull which reached the ropes like a bullet.
The 24-year old Refier was not to be left out and launched into a brutal drive off Richards for four as the pair stepped on the gas.   Both batsmen played aggressively and Refier was the first to reach his eighth half-century before Barnwell, who has one hundred to his name, got to his seventh fifty as the pair continued to pile on the runs, passing their highest total for the season of 419-declared against the Leewards.
By Tea the Jaguars were in control on 442-5 with Barnwell on 75 and Reifer on 62 and the lead 232.
Barnwell was removed by Yannick Ottley in the second over after Tea at 447-6 and without addition to the score Anthony Bramble was caught at slip as two wickets fell in the over. Deonarine got rid of Reifer four runs later before Ronsford Beaton (2) provided Ottley with his third victim at 458-9.
Gudakesh Motie stroked Deonarine for four to take the lead to 250 and hammered Ottley for consecutive boundaries before Permaul skied Khan to mid-on leaving T&T to bat 19 overs yesterday. Ottley (3-17), Deonarine (2-80) and Khan (2-119) were the most successful bowlers for the hosts.
With thunderstorms forecast for today the Red Force will be keen to bat for as long as possible to try and deny the Jaguars advancing to 70 points from four matches.
In the Jamaica versus Leewards match, Jamaica were 141 for 6 chasing a target of 150.
Scores: Leewards 164 and 228; Jamaica 243 and 141-6.

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