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Digicel Regional First-Class cricket …Taylor’s unbeaten 60 keep visitors ahead despite impressive Reifer’s 4-47
By Sean Devers
A late afternoon unfinished 44-run partnership between Jacques Taylor (60) and
Monchin Hodge followed up his 114 the last time these teams met with a defiant 70 at Providence yesterday. (Photos by Sean Devers)
Jerimiah Louis (30) kept the Leewards Volcanoes just ahead against the Guyana Jaguars who fought back well in the first two sessions of the second day of their final round Digicel Regional First-Class match at Providence yesterday.
Taylor, who also put together 71 for the seventh wicket with Jahmar Hamilton (32), has so far batted 163 minutes, faced 129 balls, reached the boundary nines and cleared it once off of Steven Jacobs, while Louis’ 20 has lasted 78 minutes, 70 balls and included two fours and a six off of pacer Clinton Pestano after Monchin Hodge had made a responsible 70 from 224 balls, 243 minutes with 12 fours at the top of the order. By the close the Leewards were 255-7 enjoying a lead of 68 runs going into today’s penultimate day.
Left-arm Bajan seamer Raymon Reifer again showed why he is now regarded as Guyana’s best all-rounder with another impressive performance finishing the day with 4-47. Off spinner Steven Jacobs supported with 2-52. Veerasammy Permaul and debutant Anthony Adams, both left arm spinners, bowled too flat and went wicket-less.
On another day of sweltering heat and empty stands the Leewards, the only team to defeat Guyana in their last 28 games, began the day in a strong position to push for consecutive wins against the South American team with their score 62-0 in reply to the Jaguars’ 187 all out.
However, while they only lost the wicket of Chesney Hughes after he and fellow Anguillan
Raymon Reifer bowled impressively to take 4-47 as he bowls to Jacques Taylor, who is unbeaten on 60.
Hodge had added 79 for the first wicket, steady if not penetrating bowling by the Jaguars restricted the scoring and only 48 runs were conceded in the 120-minute pre-Lunch session on a good track and fast outfield as the bowlers kept the shackles on the batsmen.
Hughes, who scored the most of his 10 First-Class centuries in English County Championship, was 10 short of his 20 fifty at this level when he gloved a hook at Berbician Pestano, who was willing to bang the ball in short, to be taken by Keeper Anthony Bramble.
His 40 came from 105 balls, 135 minutes with five fours and two sixes before Keacy Carty (10) and Hodge took the score to 110-1 by Lunch in a session which produced a battle of attrition as Guyana fought back into the contest.
After Lunch, Carty, the elegant West Indies U-19 batsman from St Martin, was caught behind off Reifer for 10 at 115-2 before the left-arm pacer from Barbados, the consistent contributor to the Jaguars set-up since he was bought, struck 10 runs later when Akeem Saunders (4) clipped a ball to Keemo Paul at short mid-wicket.
Hodge reached his 17th fifty from 174 balls and 190 minutes with eight fours, before he played
Clinton Pestano exults as he made the breakthrough yesterday by have Hughes caught behind gloving a hook.
an immaculately executed on-drive off Pestano which was out of the top drawer and arguable the shot of the day. Reifer then stuck a telling blow when he got rid of Hodge, 30 short of consecutive centuries against Guyana, at 126-4.
Skipper Rakeem Cornwall (0) played over a ball which dipped and was bowled and Sherwin Peters (5) worked a short ball to short mid-wicket as Jacobs struck twice to leave the Leewards in precarious position at 140-6, still 47 away from the Jaguars’ total.
Taylor and Hamilton took their team to 187-6 by Tea and after the break Hamilton was the aggressor and Taylor played the supporting role as a frustrating partnership was developing on the easy paced track.
But just after the 200 was posted Hamilton edged Reifer to Bramble at 211-7 after facing 80 balls in his 116-minute innings which included a couple of fours.
Taylor soon reached his third fifty from 104 balls in 124 minutes with eight fours and a six and together with Louis, whose confidence increased as his innings progressed, looked untroubled and even ‘upped’ the run rate with positive batting as for the umpteen time during this tournament, the opposition’s tail wagged even when the pacers took the new ball as they did yesterday.
Today Guyana will need to pick up three quick wickets and hope for a marked improvement with the bat in their second innings as they want to increase their unbeaten streak to eight matches tomorrow.
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