Harpy Eagles clobber CCC to bounce back
Carter wrecks Academy to set up Pride win
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Guyana Harpy Eagles wasted little time in regaining their winning momentum in the Super50 Cup by thumping Combined Campuses and Colleges by 129 runs here yesterday.
In a lopsided Zone A encounter at Queen’s Park Oval, the in-form Tevin Imlach struck 75 from 88 deliveries while Kemol Savory weighed in with 69 from 101 balls, to propel Harpy Eagles to 266 all out in the 48th over.
CCC offered very little in reply, bundled out for a disappointing 137 at the start of the 37th over, captain Denesh Ramdin again top-scoring with an unbeaten 32 and Kirstal Kallicharan also getting 32.
Seamer Nial Smith (3-21) and off-spinner Kevin Sinclair (3-25) both claimed three-wicket hauls as CCC
NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Veteran all-rounder Jonathan Carter’s five-wicket haul derailed a promising run chase by West Indies Academy and earned Barbados Pride a comfortable 82-run win in the Super50 Cup here Friday night.
With the development side cruising at 98 for one in the 24th over in pursuit of 280 at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground, the 34-year-old Carter intervened with his medium pace to claim five for 30 and send the innings crashing to 197 all out off 44 overs.
He made a double strike in the 24th over, removing Kirk McKenzie (10) and Kevin Wickham (0), and the innings never really recovered despite opener Keagan Simmons’s 50 off 77 balls and Kevlon Anderson’s 36 from 44 deliveries.
Earlier, the experienced Hope brothers – Kyle (69) and Shai (50) – had both gathered half-centuries while rookie Zachary McCaskie pitched in with 54 as Pride rallied to 279 for six off their 50 overs.
Sent in, Pride flourished courtesy of a 102-run opening stand between Kyle Hope, who struck two fours in a 97-ball knock, and McCaskie who lashed three fours and two sixes in a 78-ball stay at the crease.
When McCaskie fell in the 25th, Kyle added a further 54 for the second wicket with Shai who then put on 31 with Carter (9) for the third wicket, before perishing at the end of the 45th – one of four wickets to fall for 35 runs.
Shamar Springer then propped up the lower order with an entertaining 17-ball 41 which included three fours and two sixes.
In reply, Simmons led the Academy run chase, counting half-dozen fours in a 65-run opening stand with Leonardo Julien (32) and then in a 33-run, second wicket partnership with McKenzie.
But Carter’s double strike set back the innings significantly as four wickets then tumbled for 21 runs, and neither Anderson, who struck four fours, nor captain Nyeem Young – with a 19-ball 24 – could arrest the decline. declined from 90 for two in the 21st over, losing their last eight wickets for 47 runs.
Coming off a defeat to reigning champions Trinidad and Tobago Red Force in their last game, Harpy Eagles ensured there were no major gaffes this time, even though their batting once again lacked consistency.
They lost Anthony Bramble (18) cheaply in the seventh over at 26 for one, edging behind a cross-batted heave at seamer Matthew Forde (2-41) but recovered through a 133-run, second wicket stand between Imlach and Savory.
Imlach, a 25-year-old right-hander, struck a four and two sixes to push his tally for the campaign to 248 runs while Savory, a 26-year-old left-hander in only his eighth List A match, punched half-dozen fours.
Their stand was flourishing when off-spinner Romario Greaves (2-64) intervened to remove both, Savory spooning to short extra cover in the 34th and Imlach bowled at the end of the 38th missing an almighty heave, after adding a further 32 for the third wicket with Shimron Hetmyer (21).
His dismissal led to a cluster of wickets for CCC – three falling for four runs in the space of nine balls – as Harpy Eagles slipped to 195 for five in the 40th over.
Sinclair then chipped in with a 19-ball 27 to rally the innings late on.
CCC’s reply started on a high, the 22-year-old Kallicharan lashing five fours and a six in a breezy 25ball knock, in an opening stand of 52 off 44 deliveries with Kyle Roopchand (21).
Fast bowler Romario Shepherd (2-25) got the breakthrough when he enticed Kallicharan to hole out to deep square on the pull and Jonathan Drakes followed for six with only 10 runs added, taken smartly at slip by captain Leon Johnson edging a drive at left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie (2-21).
The innings never recovered thereafter, Ramdin left stranded for the second straight game after facing 48 balls and counting two fours.