West Indies Championships: Harpy Eagles set 300+ for Barbados on final day
The Guyana Harpy Eagles (GHE) retained some amount of control of the fourth-round West Indies Championships match-up against the Barbados Pride after bowling out their opponents well below their first innings target, although not achieving the feat as quickly as they would have liked.
The Harpy Eagles then opted to bat rather than enforce the follow-on, pushing Barbados’s required total over 300.
On Friday morning, the Harpy Eagles took wickets on a consistent basis to keep the Barbados Pride quiet.
Raymon Reifer and Jason Holder went early for 13 from 44 and 4 from 3 balls respectively, before Shane Dowrich set up shop alongside Jonathan Drakes.
Much of Barbados’s resistance came in the form of Drakes who slammed 101 from 204 balls, frustrating the Harpy Eagles bowlers after lunch.
Nial Smith picked up three wickets for the Harpy Eagles
The next best score for Barbados came off the bat of Dowrich, who hit 41 in 62 balls, before he met his demise playing a loose shot off Veerasammy Permaul’s bowling. After Gudakesh Motie sent Drakes packing, the Harpy Eagles cleaned up the remainder of Barbados’s line- up quickly, bowling out their opposition for 230 runs in 68.3 overs.
Nial Smith led the charge for the Guyanese bowlers, claiming 3-54 from 12 overs, while Isai Thorne finished with 3-37 in 11 overs. Two scalps went to Motie for his figures of 2-38 in 21 overs, while Permaul was responsible for the other.
Guyana’s second innings saw Matthew Nandu and Captain Tevin Imlach depart early for 1 and 9 runs respectively. After Tagenarine Chanderpaul’s 20 runs from 32 deliveries, Kevlon Anderson and Kevin Sinclair struck up a mini-partnership.
Sinclair a quick 25 runs to the total off 24 balls while Anderson hit 33 off 57 deliveries. Permaul was the next batter to put up a resistance contributing 22 runs and Kemol Savory remained unbeaten on 22 from 48 balls as Guyana declared at 136-8 in 32.2 overs, to set Barbados 342 runs, to win the contest.
Jomel Warrican did the trick for Barbados, claiming 3-32 in 9.2 overs, while Jair McAllister and Chemar Holder took two wickets each.
Guyana’s pacers set out to pick a few wickets before the close of play, but it went the opposite way, as the duo of Kraigg Brathwaite and Zachary McCaskie combined for 31-0 by the close.
As such, Barbados require a further 312 runs while the Harpy Eagles will be looking to scoop up 10 wickets on Day 4.
The final day of the fourth-round match-up between Barbados and Guyana will resume at 10:00h today.
