CWI Regional four-day cricket Barbados halt Jaguars title streak to win 22nd title with two rounds to go

Mar 15, 2020 Sports

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By Sean Devers

An incisive spell of high-class fast bowling from Man-of-the-Match and West Indies pacer Kemar Roach sent five-times defending Champions Guyana Jaguars crashing for their second double digit total in their eight-round CWI Regional four-day cricket tournament as Barbados Pride romped to an emphatic 235-run win at Providence yesterday with five sessions to spare.

The win halted the Jaguars five-year winning streak and provided the Pride with their 22nd Regional First-Class title and first since 2014.
The win was also the first for them over Guyana at Providence in six years and took them to an unassailable lead with two rounds remaining.
Guyana began the penultimate day needing 330 for an unlikely win and catapulted to 94 all out at the end of the first session in the day-night encounter as the home team followed up in the same vein as their first innings 55, their lowest total against Barbados.
Despite a 51-run seventh wicket stand between West Indies fast bowling all-rounder Keemo Paul who smashed 36 from 22 balls with six fours and a six and Wicketkeeper Anthony Bramble, who made 22 from 36 balls with four boundaries, the rest of the scorecard read like an international telephone number as only opener Tagenarine Chanderpaul (11) of the other batsmen, reached double figures.
Roach had 4-36 for Match figures of 9-56 and took his wicket-tally to 30. He got support from the tournament’s leading fast bowler, 22-year-old Chemar Holder (2-32) who took his tally to 36, while Jonathan Carter cleaned up the tail with 3-13.
In a situation tailor-made for Tagenarine Chanderpaul’s approach to batting, the Jaguars began the day needing 330 win to in six sessions.

In overcast conditions, on a track with some bounce and movement, Roach, with 193 wickets from 56 Tests and 26 from just five matches, made the pink ball ‘talk’ but it was Chemar Holder, who struck first.
Just after the pugnacious Shimron Hetmyer had eased Chemar Holder confidently past mid-off for the day’s first boundary in the second over, the West Indies left-hander edged one that left him off the seam to give replacement Keeper Tevyn Walcott his first catch off the next ball.
Hetymer’s demise left the hosts on 6-1 and when Skipper Leon Johnson (3), who is having and up and down season, edged Chemar Holder to second slip, the Jaguars were in a precarious position on 19-2.
Chanderpaul got his first boundary when he edged Roach fortuitously to third man but never suggested permanence.
The experienced Roach charged in with a strong breeze on his back with four slips and a gully in place and the son of Shiv Chanderpaul, got one that came back and was trapped LBW at 23-3.

Chris Barnwell, Guyana best batsman this season, joined the diminutive Vishaul Singh who edged a catch to Walcott off Roach.
Roach also removed his countryman Raymon Reifer, LBW for a first ball duck as the Jaguars collapsed like a stack of cards against the Bajan new ball attack and were 24-5 in the 11th over.
Watched by a handful of fans in the stands, Bramble averted Roach’s hat-trick but Barnwell was soon LBW to Roach who was on a rampage as the wounded Jaguars limped to 33-6.
But Paul and Bramble were not going down without a fight and counter-attacked the fast bowlers who began to tire in hot sun that had come out in all its splendour and negated some of the early exaggerated side-ways moment.
Bramble edged Chemar Holder for his first boundary before pulling him for consecutive fours when he bowled short.
Paul wacked Roach like a bullet to the mid-wicket boundary, top edged a hook over the keeper’s head, cover drove him and finished off the over with the fourth boundary; a brutal straight drive as 16 runs came off the over.
When Jason Holder replaced his unrelated name sake, he beat Bramble twice with prodigious lateral movement away from the right-hander before the Jaguars Keeper whipped him disdainfully for four.
Paul clipped Carter to fine-leg and cover-drove him majestically for boundaries as the partnership prospered before Bramble edged Carter to second slip to break the partnership and leave the score 84-7.
Paul cameo was halted when Carter broke his middle stump at 93-8 before he bowled Sinclair for duck.
Jason Holder finished off the innings and the match when Veersammy Permaul was caught behind for a duck on the stroke of the first break to give the Bajans a commanding three-day win.
Scores: PRIDE 174 (Kraigg Brathwaite 48, Jonathan Carter 27, Shane Dowrich 25; Keemo Paul 3-62, Romario Shepherd 2-15) and 210 (Kraigg Brathwaite 84 not out, Jonathan Carter 43; Keemo Paul 4-52).
JAGUARS 55 (Kemar Roach 5-20, Jason Holder 4-24) and 94 (Keemo Paul 36, Anthony Bramble 22; Kemar Roach 4-36, Jonathan Carter 3-13).

 

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