Colonial Medical Super50 Cup Webster, Phillip give Red Force 6-wkt win against Jaguars

Nov 10, 2019 Sports

By Sean Devers in Trinidad

A masterful 87 from Tion Webster and a four wicket-haul from pacer Anderson Phillip led Trinidad &Tobago Red Force to a six-wicket win against last year’s runners-up Guyana Jaguars last night at the Queen’s Park Oval to notch up their second win and move to top of the points table with eight points.

Johnthon Foo hits Imran Khan for six during top score for the Jaguars last night at QPO.

The Jaguars remain of four points for the win against the West Indies Emerging Players last Thursday in their opening match.
Watched by a disappointing crowd on Saturday night in Port of Spain, Guyana Jaguars reached 188-9 in a match reduced to 43 overs as six batsmen got into the 20s, only Johnathon Foo reached 30 with his top score of 36 from 31 balls with two fours and two sixes.
The Berbician added 49 for sixth wicket with Bajan Raymon Reifer who hit 26 from 42 balls with two fours.
Ramaal Lewis hit two sixes and two fours in 17-ball 28, while Christopher Barnwell (24), Skipper Leon Johnson (22) and Chanderpaul Hemraj (21) were the other batsmen to reach double figures in another below par batting performance.
Fast bowler Anderson Phillip had 4-44 from nine overs for Red Force who replied with 191-4 in 36 overs as the 24-year-old Webster hit 14 glorious boundaries which included three sixes in a masterful 87 which lasted 60 balls.

Anderson Phillip had 4-44 for Red Force last night.

Red Force’s Tion Webster deposits Permaul for six to post his fifty from 24 balls.

Man-of-the-Match Webster and Solozano, who made 39 from 54 balls with four fours, featured in a record 124-run partnership against Guyana for any wicket in 50-overs cricket to break the 100 for the second wicket between Phil Simmons & Brian Lara at Hampton Court in 1995.
Chasing Guyana’s 189, Webster, who made five in the match when Red Force beat the Volcanoes by eight wickets in their last match, cashed in last night and played an array of scintillating shots.
He started the demolition job with three glorious boundaries off Hemraj and followed it up with a nonchalant straight six off Pestano and two imperious fours to finish the over.
A sweep for six off Permaul was followed up by an effortless six over long-on to bring up his second 50-over fifty from just 24 balls decorated with six fours and three sixes.
Solozano, on the back of a maiden unbeaten ton in the last match, played the supporting role before he was removed by Veerasammy Permaul in the 19th over, while Webster fell to Ramaal Lewis six runs later to leave the Red Force on 130-2.
At 138, Kyle Hope (4) provided Permaul with his second wicket before first game centurion Daren Bravo (26) and Jason Mohamed (28) joined Forces to see the Red Force to within seven runs of victory. Ottley (0) was there with Bravo when victory was achieved.

Jeremy Solozano shared in a record 124 -run stand for Red Force last night.

Raymon Reifer on-drives in his 49-run stand with Foo.

Earlier, Red Force asked the Jaguars to bat and Tagenarine Chanderpaul took 16 balls for his seven and with lightning flashing and thunder rolling from dark ominous clouds, Chanderpaul played a loose drive at one that left him from Phillip and edged a catch to second slip with the score on 11 in the fifth over.
And when rain stopped play on Chanderpaul’s dismissal at 13:50hrs, Red Force’s Coach Mervin Dillion must have had a sigh of relief since he was struck by lightning in the 2003 Red Stripe Bowl in Jamaica.
After a delay of 120 minutes and the sun back in full glory, Hemraj pivoted and hooked Phillip to break the shackles but after finding it difficult to get the ball away on a far better track than the last game at the Brian Lara Academy, he miscued a pull off Yannic Ottley and was taken at deep mid-wicket.
His 21 took 46 balls and his demise left the score on 36-2.
Kemol Savory got off the mark with an edge to third for a boundary off Odean Smith and was just beginning to look good when Barnwell pushed a ball to Tion Webster at cover and Savory (9) failed to beat the direct hit at 48-3.
Johnson, desperate for runs, joined Barnwell who looked confident. The DCC right-hander swivelled and pulled Smith for four but with the score on 72 in the 24th over, he was caught off Webster for 24 from 51 balls as the Red Force maintained the pressure.
Johnson cut Webster for four and along with Raymon Reifer added 21 before Johnson failed to build on a start and threw his wicket away with an unnecessary slog off Jason Mohammed and was taken by Smith, running in from deep mid-wicket as the Jaguars slipped 91-5.
Foo, who last played in West Indies Cricket in September 2017 for Jamaica and against Guyana in the CPL, took a liking to leg-spinner Imran Khan; smashing him for two sixes and couple of fours in two overs, while Reifer pulled pacer Phillip for four as their partnership gathered momentum.
But the 29-year-old Foo, trying for another six, lofted Phillip to long-on as yet another Jaguars batsman fell when well set for a big score as they stumbled to 140-6 in 37 overs.
Ramaal Lewis deposited John Russ Jaggesar for consecutive sixes as the Jaguars increased the tempo in the last five overs.
Reifer hit Phillip for four past point and Lewis, with both off the ground, upper cut the pacer for four before Solozano dropped him at long-off next ball.
Phillip removed Rifer for 26 in the same over as Solozano redeemed himself and the Jaguars were 174-7 with two overs remaining.
Lewis was run out and Permaul (1) fell to Phillips at 183-9. Ronsford Beaton (1) and Clinton Pestano (4) ensured their team was not bowled out.
The Jaguars play their third game tomorrow against the USA in Port-of-Spain.