ST JOHN’S, Antigua – The Barbados Pride, Leeward Islands Hurricanes and Guyana Harpy Eagles all recorded victories on Saturday’s final day of the second round of matches in the West Indies Championship.
Jomel Warrican grabbed six wickets to help Barbados Pride crush the West Indies AcademyThe Pride comfortably defeated the West Indies Academy by an innings and 54 runs, the Hurricanes dispatched the Jamaica Scorpions by five wickets and the defending champions Harpy Eagles coasted to an eight-wicket victory over the Combined Campuses and Colleges.
At Kensington Oval: Barbados Pride recorded their first win of this year’s West Indies Championship, strolling to an innings and 54 run win over West Indies Academy.
The result was never in doubt after the WI Academy resumed the day on 211 for six, requiring another 131 runs to make the Pride bat again.
Carlon Bowen-Tuckett scored an unbeaten 103 from 158 balls, Joshua Bishop scored 28 and Johann Layne made 27, but their innings only served to delay the inevitable.
Leg spinner Jomel Warrican picked up three of the four wickets to fall on the day to end with figures of 6-104 and pacer Ramon Simmonds supported with 4-43 for the Pride.
At the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium: Jewel Andrew scored an unbeaten half century to lead the Leeward Islands Hurricanes to an easy five-wicket win over the Jamaica Scorpions.
Andrew scored an unbeaten 62 from 81 balls and the home side breezed to their target of 156 for the loss of five wickets to claim their second victory of the tournament.
The Scorpions gave themselves an outside chance of staging an unlikely victory when fast bowler Marquino Mindley snared the early wickets of openers Mikyle Louis and Kadeem Henry and Gordon Bryan bowled Karima Gore to leave the Hurricanes 63 for three, after resuming the day on 44 for one.
However, Andrew and Keacy Carty added 59 runs for the fourth wicket to get their team out of trouble.
And when Carty was dismissed for 34 and Jahmar Hamilton followed in quick succession, Andrew and Hayden Walsh Jr took the Hurricanes over the line without any further alarm.
At the Guyana National Stadium: The Guyana Harpy Eagles completed a come-from-behind victory against the Combined Campuses and Colleges by eight-wickets.
The defending champions, who were behind the eight ball for much of the contest, produced a sterling bowling effort to rout the CCC before half centuries by skipper Tevin Imlach and Matthew Nandu secured an easy run chase.
Resuming the day on 32 for three in their second innings, an overall lead of 64 runs, the CCC were comfortably placed at 104 for four before losing their last six wickets for just 28 runs.
Veteran spinner Veerasammy Permaul snared four wickets, while Ronaldo Alimohamed and Shamar Joseph grabbed two wickets apiece to be the main destructors.
Facing a straightforward target of 165 runs, the Harpy Eagles made light work of the run chase with Imlach scoring 80, while Nandu finished unbeaten on 69.
