Defiant Brathwaite puts Pride in control
WEST INDIES Test captain Kraigg Brathwaite showed his real class as he stroked a polished unbeaten century to give the Barbados Pride the upper hand against the Jamaica Scorpions on day two of their West Indies Championship match at Sabina Park.
Brathwaite took some time to get going, but the right-hander used up 290 balls and hit 13 fours to remain unbeaten on 129 as the Pride closed day two on 315 for six, a lead of 46 runs with four wickets in hand.
After losing opener Zachary McKaskie for 15 and Shayne Mosley for 14 at 36 for two, Brathwaite prodded and probed his way in sharing in a 55-run third-wicket stand with Jonathan Drakes, who made 31 before he was bowled by Peat Salmon.
Brathwaite then found another useful partner in the in-form Kevin Wickham as the pair batted the Pride to safety by putting on 120 runs for the fourth wicket, which took the visitors within 58 runs of first-innings honours.
The Scorpions would, however, get the breakthrough in the 69th over, when Wickham on 63 was run out after a mix-up with Brathwaite.
That wicket did not slow the Pride’s progress as they surpassed the Scorpions’ first-innings score of 269, thanks to a 63-run fifth-wicket stand between Brathwaite and Roshon Primus, who made 22.
The Pride would lose one more wicket in Akeem Jordan for 13, but Brathwaite and former Test wicket-keeper Shane Dowrich saw it through to the end without further loss.
Dowrich was left unbeaten on 19 despite two wickets for Derval Green and a wicket each for Ojay Shields and Salmon.
OTHER SCORES:
At Chedwin Park: Combined Campuses and Colleges 204 (Demario Richards 46, Damel Evelyn 43, Jonathan Carter 31, Shamarh Brooks 29; Darel Cyrus 6-72)
Windward Islands 358 for eight (Kavem Hodge 130 not out, Sunil Ambris 1206; Romario Greaves 5-142).
At Coolidge Cricket Ground: Guyana Harpy Eagles 175 (Ronaldo Alimohamed 30, Matthew Nandu 28; Joshua James 4-43) and 165 for five (Kevlon Anderson 49, Tevin Imlach 29; Ashmead Nedd 4-27). West Indies Academy 162 (Rashawn Worrell 58, Joshua Bishop 51; Kevin Sinclair 4-45, Veerasammy Permaul 3-31, Gudakesh Motie 3-31).
At Warner Park: Trinidad and Tobago Red Force 137 (Jyd Goolie 30; Colin Archibald 3-28, Jeremiah Louis 3-38) and 48 without loss (Vikash Mohan 25 not out, Cephas Cooper 21 not out). Leeward Islands 318 (Jewel Andrew 87, Kieran Powell 65, Jeremiah Louis 41; Anderson Phillip 4-62, Bryan Charles 3-81).