Digicel Regional First-Class Cricket ...Three-times champs play like novices; Blown away by Hurricanes again

Digicel Regional First-Class Cricket …Three-times champs play like novices; Blown away by Hurricanes again

Apr 24, 2017 Sports

By Sean Devers
On a day for celebrating the winning of the Headly-Weeks trophy, three-times Digicel Regional Four-Day Champions Guyana Jaguars played like novices and were blown away by the Leewards Hurricanes by 10-wickets inside three days yesterday at Providence.

Three times Champions Jaguars celebrate with the Headly/Weeks trophy yesterday at Providence.

The Hurricanes, the cellar dwellers, had handed the Jaguars their only defeat in their last 28 games when an unexpected declaration give them a four-wicket victory last November in St Kitts in the second round.
The Jaguars remained unbeaten in seven games since then and the Hurricanes arrived in Guyana for the final round of the competition desperate to prove their second round win was no fluke.
After dismissing the host for 187 in their first innings the visitors dominated most of the match except briefly on the post lunch session on day two when Guyana reduced the Hurricanes to 104-7.
But two poor performances with the bat condemned the Jaguars to their second loss in a tournament which they had already won regardless of yesterday’s result. Scores: Jaguars 187 & 143, Hurricanes 306 & 25-0.
The Hurricanes started the penultimate day on 255-7 and a 68-run eighth wicket stand between Jacques Taylor, who struck 10 fours and a six in his 160-ball/211-minute innings and pacer Jeremiah Louis, who made 32 from 83 balls, 102 minutes with three fours and two sixes, rallied them past the 300 mark.
Gavin Tonge with an unbeaten 17 chipped in towards the end as the Hurricanes’ tail, as with most of Guyana’s opposition this season, wagged. Left-arm pacer Raymon Reifer, the Jaguars’ most consistent performer, trapped Louis LBW at 299-8 before inducing Taylor to edge a catch to wicket-Keeper Anthony Bramble at 305-9, to finish with his third five-wicket haul as he claimed a career best 6-74.
When the Jaguars batted a second time needing 119 to avoid an innings defeat, they quickly slumped to 30-2 by Lunch with both of their openers back in the pavilion cheaply. Assad Fudadin (1) edged Tonge to the keeper at 5-1 before 17-year-old debut Baskar Yadram played a ‘nothing’ shot and was taken at slip to give debutant left-arm spinner Elvis Berridge his first scalp at this level on the stroke of lunch with the Jaguars still 89 away from making the Hurricanes bat again.
Out of form Skipper Leon Johnson (9) drove a full, wide ball from Tonge to extra cover while Chanderpaul Hemraj, who survived a raucous LBW shout off the previous delivery, had his stumps knocked over by Louis just when he was looking promising on 29 as the home team slipped to 64-4.
Things got progressively worst when Reifer (2) was run out by half the length of the pitch when Anthony Bramble failed to respond to his call for a second run, Tonge then had Bramble caught and bowled for a 69-ball 26 with Guyana slipping to 96-6, still 23 behind.
Cornwall removed Steven Jacobs in identical fashion to his first innings dismissal when he gloved an ill-advised sweep at one that bounced from the off-spinner for a second ball duck at 104-7.
Keemo Paul, batting with a swollen hand, and Veerasammy Permaul offered some resistance before they were outfoxed by Cornwall who removed them both to irresponsible sweep shots, the very poor shot selection continued as batsman after batsman threw their wickets away in ideal conditions for batting
Louis removed Clinton Pestano (5) to leave the Islanders to get 25 to beat Guyana in their own back yard; Cornwall took 3-68 to follow up his 6-68 in the first innings, Tonge (3-33) and Louis (2-11) had a good day at the office.
Monchin Hodge (6) and Chesney Hughes (14) then saw their team to victory in 9.1 overs with Yadram being robbed a First-Class wicket when Jacobs at deep mid-wicket dropped Hughes on 13.

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