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Carib Beer XI v England XI Day 2

Sunday, March 28 2004

Jermaine Lawson today gave the West Indian selectors a timely reminder of his rehabilitation with a four wicket spell at St John's today, but the tourists remain firmly in charge.

On the day that the NASA Scramjet soared high over California in an attempt to break the world aviation speed record another rocket, Jermaine Lawson, grabbed four wickets in a hostile spell for the Carib Beer XI and immediately thrust himself forward as a candidate for the third test match, starting next week.

Lawson experienced the highs and lows of international cricket in five extraordinary days last year in Antigua, first single-handedly destroying the Australian batting line-up then attracting the unwanted attention of the ICC over an alarming twitch in his bowling action.

The remedial treatment complete, the Jamaican speedster bagged the wickets of Geraint Jones and Rikki Clarke, who made useful contributions of 66 and 35 respectively, then accounted for Giles and Batty at a personal cost of 94 runs to restrict England’s first-innings lead over the islanders to the small matter of 218. Dave Mohammed took his own tally of victims in the innings to three when he dismissed Read and Hoggard, but England had the better of matters courtesy of half-centuries from Jones and Thorpe.

With the rain clouds never far away, there was time for James Anderson to have teenager Xavier Marshall caught behind for just 4, but Daren Ganga (17*) and Sylvester Joseph (25*) took the home side safely through to stumps on 51-1.

Carib Beer XI 129 (Hoggard 4-27) and 51-1
trail
England XI 347 (Thorpe 88, Jones 66, Trescothick 50, Lawson 4-92)
By 167 runs



Posted by Eddie