Jordan units up Satisfaction win over Scorpions 

Quick bowler Akeem Jordan produced a devastating four-wicket burst to arrange Barbados Satisfaction’s six-wicket victory over Jamaica Scorpions inside three days Friday.

The 28-year-old snatched 4 for 65 to wipe out the highest order as Scorpions, resuming the morning at Coolidge Cricket Floor on six with out loss of their second innings, crumbled meekly for 151.

At one stage, the innings tottered on 56 for seven earlier than rookie opener Kirk McKenzie, who top-scored with 56, staged a fightback in a 50-run, eighth wicket stand with Ojay Shields (22) and quantity ten Gordon Bryan chimed in with a breezy 42.

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Left with an uncomplicated 77 for victory, Satisfaction nonetheless misplaced 4 wickets earlier than overhauling their goal, opener Zachary McCaskie top-scoring with 26 and left-arm spinner Patrick Harty choosing up three for 26.

A untimely finish to the competition was not on the playing cards when Scorpions resumed with all ten wickets intact, however the rattle began from as early because the second ball of the day when Jordan bowled Leroy Lugg earlier than the right-hander added to his in a single day two.

In his subsequent over – the third of the morning – Jordan accounted for Lugg’s opening accomplice Tevin Gilzene (9), taken at cowl off a vanguard at 19 for 2 earlier than sending again captain Paul Palmer for just one, the left-hander dragging on a drive at a large supply.

Seamer Shamar Springer (2-38) hit Aldaine Thomas in entrance for 3 and Jordan then claimed his fourth when he had Abhijai Mansingh caught on the wicket with out scoring, the right-armer ending with match figures of seven for 113.

The left-handed McKenzie, in his third first-class match, counter-attacked in a 78-ball knock that included 4 fours and three sixes earlier than turning into one in every of three wickets to fall to pacer Jair McAllister (3-35).

Bryan additionally annoyed Satisfaction, lashing seven fours off 78 balls earlier than he was final out.

McCaskie then bought Satisfaction as much as 54 for one courtesy of two 27-run partnerships, Harty triggering a collapse that noticed three wickets tumble for 9 runs earlier than the reigning champions bought over the road.

-CMC