West Indies Championships: Permaul, Sinclair guide Harpy Eagles to big total on Day 2

…Thorne bags early wickets

The Guyana Harpy Eagles (GHE) posted a commanding 436 all-out on Day 2 of their fourth-round clash with the Barbados Pride and followed it up by leaving their opponents three wickets down by the end of play.
Kevin Sinclair resumed the day on an unbeaten 5 from 12 deliveries, with the experienced Veerasammy Permaul joining him at the crease. Together, the duo operated as seasoned batsmen and not bowlers, taking the Harpy Eagles from 231-5 to well past the 300-run mark.

Sinclair continued to show his all-round prowess, following up his unbeaten 165 from Round 3 of the West Indies Championships with a blistering half-century on Thursday morning.
He smashed 72 in 94 deliveries, including nine fours before being caught and bowled by Jomel Warrican.
After Sinclair’s wicket forced the lunch break, Permaul and Gudakesh Motie combined for an attacking resistance after the break.
Permaul brought up his sixth First-Class half-century, but rain played spoilsport, halting play for over an hour.
The duo of Permaul and Motie continued their resistance after the rain, as Motie went on to hit 37 from 69 balls. Permaul’s innings was the shocking one, but the spinner ran out of batting partners before he could reach the coveted 100 milestone.

Permaul eventually ended on an unbeaten 90 from 151 deliveries, including 10 fours and 3 sixes, helping the Harpy Eagles to their mammoth first innings total.
As a result of their toil against the Guyanese batters, the Barbadian bowlers shared the wickets. Kemar Roach, Jason Holder, and Warrican took two scalps each with figures of 2-52 from 25 overs, 2-52 from 20 overs and 2-98 from 33 overs respectively.
With figures of 2-19 from 6 overs, Isai Thorne proved to be a menace to the Barbadian top order with the ball, as the Harpy Eagles got a good start to the innings.
Thorne took the wickets of Zachary McCaskie and Shian Brathwaite, who fell for 8 runs and a duck respectively. Then, in the 13th over of the Barbadian innings, Kraigg Brathwaite, playing a loose shot, lobbed one over the bowler’s head, which substitute fielder Raymon Perez was unable to catch.
However, Perez was lightning fast with the clean-up to run Brathwaite out at the non-striker’s end. As such, the day’s play was ended with Barbados on 59-3 from 19 overs, trailing the Harpy Eagles by 377 runs with 7 wickets in hand.
Jonathan Drakes and Raymon Reifer will resume the chase for the Pride on day 3 today, on 20 from 54 balls and 1 off 16 deliveries respectively. The 4-Day action will resume from 10:00h at the Coolidge Cricket Ground, Antigua.