Cricket

Barbados Pride, leading by 81 runs on first innings, reached 179 for six in their second innings at the close on the second day of their third round match in the Regional Four-Day Championship at Sabina Park on Friday.

Fast bowler Chemar Holder stunned Jamaica Scorpions with a devastating five-wicket haul to turn the page on a sub-par Barbados Pride batting display, and put the visitors in control of their third round contest at Sabina Park on Thursday.

Fit-again all-rounder Deandra Dottin has been named in a 15-member West Indies squad for next month’s Women’s Twenty20 World Cup in Australia.

Lendl Simmons flirted with a maiden Twenty20 International hundred as West Indies crushed Ireland by nine wickets in the final match on Sunday night, to earn a share of the three-match series.

Barbados Pride defeated Guyana Jaguars by seven wickets on the final day of their second round match in the Regional Four-Day Championship at Kensington Oval on Sunday.

Opener Tagenarine Chanderpaul’s defiant half-century kept champions Guyana Jaguars afloat after seasoned Test seamer Kemar Roach grabbed four wickets to undermine the innings, on the opening day of their second round encounter on Thursday.

Veteran Dwayne Bravo’s return following a three-and-a-half year sojourn on the sidelines ended in disappointment as a feisty Ireland stunned West Indies by four runs in the opening Twenty20 International on Wednesday to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.

Half-centuries from debutant Desron Maloney and captain Kavem Hodge underpinned a clinical Windward Islands Volcanoes run chase as they stunned Barbados Pride by three wickets on a tense final day of the first round clash on Sunday.

West Indies defeated Ireland by five wickets under Duckworth-Lewis-Stern, in the final One-Day International of the three-match series at the Grenada National Stadium on Sunday.

Emmanuel Stewart’s maiden first class half-century propped up Windward Islands Volcanoes and kept Barbados Pride at bay, on the second day of their Regional Four-Day Championship match on Friday.