Two-time defending champions Barbados Satisfaction had been dealt a demoralising setback within the West Indies Championship on Saturday, when pacer Niall Smith produced a harmful spell to undermine their batting and bowled Guyana Harpy Eagles to a complete 183-run win.
Smith grabbed 5-31 from 10 overs, and the Satisfaction, chasing 278 to win, had been bowled out for a paltry 94 of their second innings shortly earlier than tea on the ultimate day of their first-round match on the Vivian Richards Cricket Floor.
It was the third lowest whole for Satisfaction in opposition to the Harpy Eagles within the fashionable period of the Championship (1966 onwards) – however nowhere close to their report lowest.
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Solely three Satisfaction batsmen reached double figures – newcomer Jonathan Drakes, batting at three, led the way in which with 36, pacer Akeem Jordan, batting at eight, made 20, and Check batsman Shamar Brooks added 12.
The remainder of the batting caved to disciplined, if not menacing bowling from the Harpy Eagles with pacer Ronsford Beaton ending with 2-11 from eight overs, and Check left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul taking 2-18 from eight overs.
The consequence meant the Harpy Eagles begin the event with a bag of 18 factors, and the Satisfaction limp away with solely three.
Within the second spherical, beginning on Wednesday – Harpy Eagles face Windward Islands Volcanoes on the Nationwide Cricket Stadium in Grenada, and Satisfaction meet Jamaica Scorpions on the Coolidge Cricket Floor in Antigua.
Earlier, Harpy Eagles added 35 to their in a single day whole earlier than they declared their second innings inside the primary hour on 126 for 9.
Permaul made 33, including 22 to his in a single day rating, and Smith, not out on 12, offered a steady accomplice in a irritating ninth wicket stand of 36 earlier than off-spinner Chaim Holder bowled the left-arm spinner to immediate the declaration.
Satisfaction endured an early setback when left-handed opener Shayne Moseley was caught behind for a duck off Smith within the second over, they usually had been wobbling on 9 for 2 when pacer Shamar Joseph trapped Zachary McCaskie lbw for 4 within the subsequent over.
Satisfaction had been 11 for 2 at lunch, and Beaton and Permaul mixed to carve up their center order, making certain there was to be no comeback story.
After Brooks defied with Drakes for an hour, Beaton had him caught at gully, and triggered a stoop through which 4 wickets fell for eight within the span of 28 balls – together with the scalps of Nicholas Kirton, Shamar Springer, and Satisfaction captain Shane Dowrich, all for geese.
Smith returned to scrub up the tail and formalised the consequence when he bought Keon Harding caught at gully for seven, and two balls later, he bowled newcomer Jair McAllister for 4.
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