West Indies 4-Day Championship Louis century puts Leewards in command against Guyana
At stumps yesterday on day one at Warner Park in St. Kitts, Leeward Islands Hurricanes 23-year-old opener Mikyle Louis played a mature innings, belying his age enroute to a maiden first-class century, to hand his side control in their second-round encounter against defending champions, the Guyana Harpy Eagles.
Louis, in just his second first-class outing, made the Harpy Eagles bowling attack toil under brilliant sunshine for 221 deliveries, while wicketkeeper batsman Jahmar Hamilton also came up with the goods, batting his way to a polished 77 to put the Hurricanes in command on 299-6 by stumps.
Kofi James gave the Harpy Eagles an early breakthrough, falling caught off the bowling of Alimohamed for 13; his replacement, Keacy Carthy, did not have a long stay either, falling to Kevin Sinclair for the same score as James.
However, Terrence Warde joined Louis, and together they stemmed the fall of wickets, with the former putting on 23 off of 71 deliveries before he became Alimohamed’s second victim, trapped
LBW. Jewel Andrew, back from a sensational U-19 World Cup, could not get off the mark, hoisting Anthony Adams to Veerasammy Permaul for a first-ball duck.
Hamilton then joined Louis at the crease with the Hurricanes four down, and together the pair put on a 119-run stand for the fifth wicket. Following Louis’ departure, LBW to Permaul, Hamilton fell caught by Kevin Sinclair to give Neiland Cadogan his maiden List A wicket. Despite that, Hurricanes skipper Rahkeem Cornwall and Jeremiah Louis guided their side to the close of play without further loss.
While the Harpy Eagles bowlers had a forgettable day with the ball, allrounder Ronaldo Ali Mohamed held his own, picking up 2-49 (16 overs), while Cadogan (1-15), Veerasammy Permaul (154), Kevin Sinclair (1-66), and Antony Adams (1-69) all chipped in with a wicket apiece. Over at the Conaree Sports Club ground in St. Kitts and Nevis, the Trinidad and Tobago Red Force trail the West Indies (WI) Academy by 35 runs. Batting first, WI Academy were dismissed for 163, with Teddy Bishop and Joshua Bishop scoring 65 and 32 runs, respectively. Jayden Seales was the pick of the bowlers with 3-26, while Anderson
Phillip recorded figures of 3-63. In reply, Red Force was 128/3, with Vikash Mohan scoring 54 runs and Cephas Cooper recording 28 runs.
Amir Jangoo is currently unbeaten at 24. Joshua Bishop snared 2-35 with the ball. Meanwhile, at Kensington Park, the Windward Islands Volcanoes are 123 without loss in pursuit of the Barbados Pride first-inning total of 214. Jeremy Solozano and Kimani Melius sit at 63 and 52, respectively.
Ryan John engineered the Barbados collapse with 4-47, while Darel Cyrus added 2-14, as Kevin Wickham and Shane Dowrich battled to 74 and 37 runs, respectively.
Over at Sabina Park, the Combined Campuses & Colleges Marooners sit on 260/7.
Jonathan Carter was the anchor of the innings with an unbeaten 108, with Zishan Motara also undefeated on 28. Supporting them with 36 and 30 runs, respectively, were Shamarh Brooks and Sion Hackett.