Following the third spherical of matches that wrapped up final weekend Guyana Harpy Eagles have opened up a major lead on the high of the West Indies Championship standings.
The Leon Johnson-led unit crushed hosts Trinidad and Tobago Pink Drive by 143 runs on Saturday’s remaining day on the Brian Lara Stadium, to register their second marketing campaign win and climb to 49 factors.
Harpy Eagles, one in every of three unbeaten groups within the match, are actually almost 12 factors away from second-placed Windward Islands Volcanoes on 37.8.
At first of the third spherical final week, Harpy Eagles held a 5-½ level lead over reigning champions Barbados Satisfaction.
They produced a dominant all-round show to brush apart Pink Drive, 26-year-old rookie batsman Kemol Savory hitting a maiden first-class hundred, Johnson gathering half-centuries in every inning and pacer Ronsford Beaton and veteran left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul ending with six-wicket match hauls apiece.
Harpy Eagles will now conclude their marketing campaign at dwelling on the Guyana Nationwide Stadium, beginning with their penultimate spherical recreation towards winless Jamaica Scorpions starting on Wednesday.
Volcanoes, in the meantime, fourth after the second spherical, had been equally dominant final weekend in pulling off a 181-run victory over Scorpions on the Guyana Nationwide Stadium, to leap into second spot within the standings and likewise stay unbeaten.
They had been carried by a fifty in every inning from captain Alick Athanaze and a splendid all-round effort from Justin Greaves who cracked a half-century and claimed an eight-wicket match haul.
Leeward Islands Hurricanes, fifth within the standings at first of the third spherical after drawing each their opening spherical video games, edged Satisfaction by two wickets in a tense end at Queen’s Park Oval to put up their first win of the season and climb into third spot on 34.2 factors.
Satisfaction is narrowly behind in fourth on 31.2 whereas Pink Drive has slipped to fifth on 24.8, leaving winless Scorpions backside on 15.4 factors.
Within the remaining fourth-round video games, Pink Drive takes on Satisfaction at Queen’s Park Oval whereas Hurricanes conflict with Volcanoes on the Brian Lara Stadium.
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