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Feb 01, 2010 Sports
By Sean Devers in Barbados
In association with Carib Beer, Leisure Inn & Car Rental & Caribbean Airlines
A career best 7-42 from Trinidad-born Barbadian Test off-spinner Ryan Austin and a debut fifty from Kjorn Ottley helped CCC to their 2nd consecutive win against Guyana at the 3Ws Oval here yesterday.
The students registered a commanding 5-wicket win in fading light at 17:56hrs on the 3rd day of their Regional 4-day First-Class cricket match with a day to spare.
Omar Phillips, the 23-year-old left-hander who played 2 Tests last year, hit a cameo 35 and along with 20-year-old Ottley who hit 11 fours from 106 balls and 103 minutes in his 66, put together 54 for the 3rd wicket.
Ottley and Test Keeper Chadwick Ottley (34*) put on another 65 runs for the 5th wicket as CCC recovered from 36-2 to win and move to 24 points from 4 matches.
The lively Brendon Bess took his 2nd three-wicket haul in the match as he finished with 3-37 in a losing cause for the South Americans who were badly let down by their spinners on a track with turn and bounce.
Guyana, who took first innings points, had to settle for 4 points and return home tomorrow with 7 points from 3 matches and with little hope of winning their first title at this level since 2002.
Scores: Guy, 271 & 162, CCC 239 & 195-5.
CCC began their victory chase with Phillips crashing Esuan Crandon off the front foot for four while Kyle Corbin, who made 74 in the first innings, hammered Crandon back past his ankles for 4 as both openers opened their account with boundaries.
While Bess bowled with genuine pace on a still good track to bat on, Crandon, who later in the day left the field with an upset stomach, lacked real firepower from the Southern end.
A spanking cover driven boundary from the 19-year-old Corbin delighted the crowd which included Corbin’s mother, who spearheaded a small but very vocal band of ‘saucepan beating’ and singing CCC supporters.
Corbin continued his stroke-play with an enterprising cover drive off Bess for four as CCC showed early intentions of trying to finish the game yesterday. Corbin (13) soon pulled Bess to deep backward square and CCC were 22-1.
Nekoli Parris joined Phillips and together they saw the students to 31-1 by Tea with Phillips, who scored 2 fifties in CCC’s first round win against T&T in Jamaica, unbeaten on 11 and Parris on 5 with their team 164 away from their 2nd win this season.
Bess struck just after lunch when he had Parris (50) leg before at 38-2 but Phillips and Kjorn Ottley batted attractively.
Phillips pulled left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul to the square leg boundary while Ottley crashed Chris Barnwell gloriously through extra cover as CCC continued to bat positively. Phillips cut Barnwell magnificently for another boundary before leg-spinner Davendra Bishoo, who again bowled too short, produced a good delivery and Phillips (35) was taken at silly mid-off to leave the score on 90-3.
Floyd Reifer stroked Bishoo through the covers for four and clobbered Barnwell to the extra cover boundary. Barnwell produced a wonderful yorker to shatter the stumps of the discarded West Indies Skipper for 15 at 119-4 to spark some hope. Barnwell, who was strangely under-bowled in the first innings, bowled with lively pace and ended with 1-30 from 10 overs.
Ottley, a former T8T under-19 player, reached his fifty from 86 balls and 121 minutes with 8 fours as he and Walton took their team closer to victory against a spin attack which looked innocuous. Vishaul Singh was introduced and he produced an assortment of long hops and his first over in first class cricket went for 14 runs including 3 fours by Ottley as Guyana’s cricket bordered on becoming embarrassing.
Bess was brought back in fading light at 17:35hrs with the score on 172-4 and Walton straight drove the pacer for four before he mistimed a pull at a bouncer and skied a catch to short mid-wicket to leave the score on 184-5.
Walton then took 2 spanking boundaries off the next 3 balls and then lofted Bess over cover for 2 to leave CCC with a run to win. A bye, one of 13 conceded by Christian ended the game in the next over.
Earlier, Guyana resumed with Chattergoon on 28 and Barnwell on 23 and Barnwell got going with a boundary off Kevin McLean to 3rd man while Chattergoon brought up the 100 lead in the next over with a classic cover-driven boundary off Austin.
Barnwell, who struck 5 fours in his 27 from 45 balls and 49 minutes, provided CCC with early success on day 3 when he clipped McLean to short mid-wicket 14 minutes into the day’s action to leave Guyana on 68-2.
The Guyana Skipper was then taken at slip as he pushed hesitantly to a ball which bounced and turned from Austin. This was after the Test left-hander had survived a confident appeal on 33 for a similar dismissal off the same bowler.
Chattergoon hit 7 fours and his 39 lasted 136 minutes and 92 balls and his demise left Guyana on 78-3 an hour before lunch.
Royston Crandon, who made 94 in the first innings joined his Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club teammate Assad Fudadin, but soon offered a tame return catch to Austin who was willing to flight the ball and extracted plenty of turn and bounce from the track in sweltering heat. Crandon’s departure for a duck left Guyana on 80-4.
Pacer Kismar Catlin struck in the next over when a spectacular diving take down the leg-side by Walton and another very poor decision from Umpire Dalton Holder sent Fudadin (5) packing although the ball clearly came off the thigh pad and Guyanese were 80-5.
Fudadin, who was struck on his left index finger from McLean, was later taken to hospital and diagnosed with a hairline fracture which kept him off the field yesterday. He is expected to be fit for the next round.
Urged on by a small crowd, CCC attacked Singh and Derwin Christian with a ring of close catchers when Austin was operating.
Christian sliced Catlin behind point for a boundary and smashed the pacer past his head for four to ease the pressure. But like he has often done in his career Christian played an injudicious slash to point 11 minutes before lunch to leave Guyana on 104-6. His 17 lasted 20 balls and included 3 fours.
Singh pulled Catlin, who bowled plenty of short balls, effortlessly to the square leg boundary and cut him over point for another just before lunch.
Esuan Crandon (5) and the diminutive Singh (19) saw Guyana to lunch at 122-6 with a lead of 154 with 4 wickets in hand and 5 sessions remaining in the contest.
After lunch Singh, whose confidence increased as his innings progressed, cut McLean disdainfully behind point for four. Left-arm spinner Kavesh Kantasingh replaced McLean and Crandon edged him agonizingly close to Reifer at slip to pick up his 3rd boundary.
With the 7th wicket stand on 41, Singh drove a catch to McLean at mid-off as Guyana slipped to 145-7 and Austin picked up his 9th 5-wicket haul at this level. Singh, in his 3rd game at this level, hit 5 fours from 63 balls and 87 minutes in his 31.
Austin trapped Permaul for a 2nd ball duck and had Crandon, who hit 4 fours in his 19, taken at slip as 3 wickets tumbled for 5 runs to leave the score on 150-9
Bess hit Austin for a 4 and a massive six off the first 4 balls he faced before Austin joined Nikita Miller and Kemar Roach with 7-wicket hauls this season when he had Bess (10) caught behind.
Guyana were all out an hour before Tea and CCC, aided by shoddy shot selection by the batsmen had fought themselves right back into the fray. This was after Guyana began the penultimate day holding the upper hand in the contest.
By the time the game ended, CCC, who beat Guyana by 130 runs the last time the sides met at this venue last year, had registered another emphatic win and Guyana, who finished last in the 2009 competition, had suffered their 2nd consecutive defeat this season.
The Guyanese now prepare for their next match against Barbados at Albion from February 12-15 and it is understood that once fit Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ramnaresh Sarwan will be considered for selection.
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