Jamaica bowlers strike back to restrick Windwards in Regional 4 Day Championship

Jamaica’s bowlers have struck back to restrict the Windward Islands to 49 for 3 at the close of play on day one of the opening round of the Regional Four Day championship against the Windward Islands at Sabina Park.

David Bernard jr 2 for 9 and Nikita Miller 1 for 15 were the successful bowlers for Jamaica, with Kenroy Peters 3 and Keddy Lesporis 7 the not out batsmen.

Devon Smith 13, Andre Fletcher 3 and Johnson Charles 24 are back in the pavilion.

Gary Mathurin dominated the bowling earlier with 5 for 34 to restrict Jamaica to 180 all out.

He was supported by Shane Shillingford 1 for 46, Brendan Nash led the Jamaica batting with a top score of 49.

Captain Tamar Lambert scored 26, Donavan Pagon got 23, while Andre Russell got 16: Chris Gayle did not last long and fell for 2.

Over in Dominica, a half century partnership between Leon Johnson and Narsingh Deonarine guided Guyana to 162 for 4 at the close of play of their rain affected game.

Johnson got 52 and Deonarine just missed out on a half century as he fell for 45.

Sewnarine Chattergoon got 4 and Rajendra Chandrika 12 against Gavin Tonge 3 wickets and Tonito Willett 1.

Meanwhile in the day and night game between the Combined Campuses and Colleges team and Trinidad and Tobago at the Three W’s Oval in Barbados.

The Trinis at sports time reached 102 for 3 the batsmen out Adrian Barath 28, Lendl Simmons 10 and Jason Mohammed 20.

Darren Bravo was on 10 and Dwayne Bravo on 2.