West Indies Domestic Cricket

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Watching the West Indians:

Yesterday Daren Ganga scored a solid 93 before being trapped LBW by Marlon Samuels. Tishan Maraj struggled for 31 runs as the next highest Trinidadian score. Today, Denesh Ramdin is approaching a century, unbeaten on 88 at the moment.

Trying to get score updates of the Barbados v Windwards game, but yesterday Dwayne Smith was out for 13, and today Rawl Lewis has troubled the Bajan middle order.

 

[Kweek]

hows Sammy doing ?

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Can't say for sure. It's extremely hard to get scores from West Indies regional cricket until several hours after stumps. What I can so thus far is that Ramdin struck a lovely 120odd, Gareth Breese took 5 wickets, Rawl Lewis took 6 wickets, Alcindo Holder blazed a quickfire 84, and Devon Smith got someone out.

Marlon Samuels batted beautifully for 63 off 75 balls as he dominated the Jamaican innings, before he was surprised by a sharp short ball from Bravo and was brilliantly caught behind by a diving Ramdin. The score was 84/2 when he fell, showing how much of an impact he had.

I heard Sammy was bowling well this morning, but I don't know what kind of payoff he got. He got smacked about a bit by Holder in the afternoon though.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Close of Play Day 2:

T&T vs Jamaica

T&T 1st 386 ao
Denesh Ramdin 125 not out
Daren Ganga 93
Richard Kelly 61
Gareth Breese 5/106
Jerome Taylor 2/42

Jamaica 1st 93/3
Marlon Samuels 63
A wicket each to Kelly, Bravo, Mohammed. Mohammed got smacked around by Samuels though.

Barbados vs Windwards

Barbados 1st 365 ao
Alcindo Holder 84
Wayne Blackman 60
Ryan Hinds 46 - loose shot to get out
Patrick Browne 41
Ryan Nurse 33 - batting at number 11
Rawl Lewis 6/105
Darren Sammy 21.1-6-48-2

Windwards 1st 13/0
Devon Smith 7 not out - dropped by Hinds off Best

The man who Devon Smith got out was Tino Best. He bowled him for 16. It was just his 2nd FC wicket.

 

[Pratters]

Not gone into the matches till now.

But hae to say was surprised/shocked seeing Dillon was dropped despite a good performance in the earlier match.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Reyad Emrit appears to be part of the future of Trinidad and Tobago cricket and Richard Kelly is potentially our version of Lance Klusener. Very exciting talent. No room for Dillon right at this moment.

Close of Play Day 2:

T&T vs Jamaica

T&T 1st 386 ao
Denesh Ramdin 125 not out
Daren Ganga 93
Richard Kelly 61
Gareth Breese 5/106
Jerome Taylor 2/42

Jamaica 1st 193 ao
Marlon Samuels 63
Dave Mohammed 4/56 - didn't bowl overly well though
Dwayne Bravo 3/35 (? - uncertain about the amount of runs, but he took 3)

T&T 2nd 178/7
Richard Kelly 43 not out - very exciting knock late in the day
Tishan Maraj 26 - scratchy
Daren Ganga 4
Denesh Ramdin 6
Dwayne Bravo 3 - loose shot outside offstump

 

[Pratters]

Reyad Emrit appears to be part of the future of Trinidad and Tobago cricket and Richard Kelly is potentially our version of Lance Klusener. Very exciting talent. No room for Dillon right at this moment.

Quite amazing that a player of Dillon's callibre after this match http://ind.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/2005-06/WI_LOCAL/CARIB/SCORECARDS/LWD_T+T_CARIB_02-05DEC2005.html finds himself out of the side.

Ganga has said that Dillon will bounce back and hopefullly he will.

 

[Prince EWS]

The man who Devon Smith got out was Tino Best. He bowled him for 16. It was just his 2nd FC wicket.

What does he bowl?

EDIT: Cricinfo says off breaks. Is he any good?

 

[Pratters]

Alcindo Holder!

83 in the first match, 84 here coming in with his team in trouble.

 

[Pratters]

Score card after day 3 of T and T vs Jamaica -

http://www.windiescricket.com/Article.asp?ID=351138

Agressive 2nd inning batting sets them for a possible victory on the last day.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

I can't understand why Ganga didn't enforce the follow-on though. It would've made victory even more likely. If not for Kelly, it could have backfired horribly.

Richard Kelly looks the stuff this season. He was outstanding as a bowling allrounder in his debut efforts last year, but now he's really pushing along with the bat. A big hitting allrounder. I'd earmark him for WC 2007.

The Windwards closed the at 180/3 in reply to Barbados' 365 all out. Devon Smith scored 55 and Craig Emmanuel got to 51 not out. Smith was dropped on 34 and Barbados dropped at least six chances.

I haven't seen Smith's bowling, but I'd suggest that he's not very good, as he hasn't really done much to develop it. He bowls about as often as Dwayne Smith doesn't get himself out.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Alcindo Holder!

83 in the first match, 84 here coming in with his team in trouble.

Those are his first 2 FC innings too, so it's a bright start career-wise for the young man.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Reyad Emrit appears to be part of the future of Trinidad and Tobago cricket and Richard Kelly is potentially our version of Lance Klusener. Very exciting talent. No room for Dillon right at this moment.

Close of Play Day 2:

T&T vs Jamaica

T&T 1st 386 ao
Denesh Ramdin 125 not out
Daren Ganga 93
Richard Kelly 61
Gareth Breese 5/106
Jerome Taylor 2/42

Jamaica 1st 193 ao
Marlon Samuels 63
Dave Mohammed 4/56 - didn't bowl overly well though
Dwayne Bravo 3/35 (? - uncertain about the amount of runs, but he took 3)

T&T 2nd 178/7
Richard Kelly 43 not out - very exciting knock late in the day
Tishan Maraj 26 - scratchy
Daren Ganga 4
Denesh Ramdin 6
Dwayne Bravo 3 - loose shot outside offstump

Shockingly suicidal strokeplay by the Jamaicans, but brilliant bowling by Emrit set the tone early on.

Jamaica 2nd 89 ao
Carlton Baugh jr. 39
Wavell Hinds - some low score - bowled legstump by Emrit
Marlon Samuels 10 - bowled middle stump by Emrit
Dave Bernard jr. 2
Gareth Breese 0
Dave Mohammed 14.2-4-41-5 - 9 in the match
Reyad Emrit 10-4-13-3
Sanjiv Gooljar (on debut) 4-1-8-2

Trinidad and Tobago won by 283 runs.

 

[garage flower]

Did you see any of Jerome Taylor's bowling?

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Only brief highlights. From all reports, neither he nor Jermaine Lawson were particularly impressive. They didn't make the batsmen play often enough.

 

[Don]

gooooo T&T didnt get to go to see the end of play today though damn. heard bravo played a very loose shot to get out.wat was he thinking?

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

These things happen. It's easy to lose the intensity when you go from entertaining a stadium full of hardcore Aussie cricket-lovers to playing in front of a couple hundred people on a University ground.

I've no doubt he'll click again soon.

 

[Don]

he better click or he wud have alot of questions to answer

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

To whom? lol

I agree, he should be pressing on and dominating the domestic circuit after his performances down under, but its already clear that he's got what it takes. Form is temporary...

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Windwards vs Barbados
Match drawn.

Windwards were 83/5 chasing 238 (38 overs) for victory. Play was called off 9 overs early. Junior Murray (29 not out) and Darren Sammy (15 not out) were the men unbeaten, and Devon Smith was earlier dismissed for 14.

Tino Best went wicketless in 4 overs, Bradshaw bowled 5-4-1-1, and Ryan Nurse and Ryan Austin took 2 wickets each.

Barbados declared their second innings closed at 109/4. Ryan Hinds was unbeaten on 39 and Patrick Browne on 11. Alcindo Holder (4) and Dwayen Smith (3) were victims of Darren Sammy, who took 2/38. Rawl Lewis finished with 8 wickets in the match after adding 2 second innings wickets.

Noteworthy Roundup:

Devon Smith 55 & 14
Dwayne Smith 13 & 3; 0/24 & 0/6
Ryan Hinds 46 & 39*; 0/30 & 0/4
Ian Bradshaw 16; 2/17 & 1/1
Tino Best 16; 2/44 & 0/14
Darren Sammy 8 & 15*; 2/48 & 2/38
Kenroy Peters 0/54 & 0/26 (2 overs)
Alcindo Holder 84 & 4
Deighton Butler 1/86 & 0/13