Nagico Super50...Fudadin maiden unbeaten ton secures win for Jaguars

Nagico Super50…Fudadin maiden unbeaten ton secures win for Jaguars

Jan 18, 2016 Sports

‘Final four’ set for T&T this week

A magnificent maiden unbeaten 103 from 30-year-old left-hander Assad Fudadin and 4-22 from left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul spearheaded Guyana Jaguars to a five-wicket win over CCC Marooners in their final preliminary round match at Warner Park in St Kitts yesterday.

Veerasammy Permaul

Guyana and the Windwards are both through to the semis from the St Kitts zone. The first semi-final is scheduled for Wednesday, while the second semi-final will be played the next day. The final is set for Saturday and the ‘final four’ will all be played at the Queens Park Oval in Trinidad.
Fudadin, playing in his 45th game at this level batted from start to finish as the Jaguars with excellent back up from Leon Johnson (56) and Royston Crandon (29), reached 255-5 in 49.3 overs in response to the 254-7 off 50 overs made by the students.
Earlier, the 26-year-old Permaul moved to the top of the wicket-takers list with 15 scalps and got support from off-spinner Steven Jacobs who took 1-37 from 10 frugal overs.
Rovman Powell with an undefeated 63 and 22-year-old Barbadian Anthony Alleyne (57) scored half-centuries and got support from Jamaican Chadwick Walton (36) and Akeem Dewar (26) to give CCC what at one point, seemed to be a winning total.
But the usually solid but subdued Fudadin, has played three Tests, changed gear towards the end and lofted two sixes to gallop into the nineties to eventually bring the asking rate to a run-ball with one over to go.

Assad Fudaddin scored a century to lead Guyana Jaguars.

It took Fudadin, now the leading run-scorer in this year tournament with 250 runs, and Jacobs who chipped in with an important 15 not out, just three balls in the last over to formalize the hard fought win.
When the Jaguars, without Shiv Chanderpaul in their line-up, began their reply they quickly lost 22-year-old debutant Kevin Boodie (6) caught at cover trying to force pacer Christopher Powell in the fifth over with the Jaguars on 12-1.
Skipper Leon Johnson and Fudadin steadied the chase with a well compiled 90-run partnership before Johnson got to his eight 50-over fifty and first for the tournament before the 28-year-old left-hander once again fell when well set for a big score. Johnson was well taken in the deep looking to clear the boundary off rookie off-spinner Vikash Mohan in the 24th over at 102-2.
Crandon and Fudadin further consolidated the position with another useful partnership before Crandon retired hurt with Fudadin on 99.
Fudadin reached his century when he worked a ball to short mid-wicket for a single. His hundred came from 132 balls and was decorated with nine fours and three sixes and he joined Andrew McCarthy and Evin Lewis as the centurions in the preliminary rounds which ended yesterday.
Meanwhile in other Scores:
Leewards beat Windwards by five runs
Leewards 238/9 from 49.overs: Ambris 74, Mayers 30* Fletcher 42: Cruickshank 2/42.
Windwards 243/6: Hughes 8. S Peters 32, O. Peters 78 Wickets:
Jamaica beat Americas by four runs:
Jamaica 257/9 in 50 overs Americas 253/8.
T&T beat Barbados by 3 wickets-
Barbados 227/7 47.overs: Dowrich 27* Nurse 6*
T&T 226: Darren Bravo 82, Ramdin 57, Nurse 10-0-37-2 Holder 8-0-35-4.