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Brooks hits 63 but Windies-A collapse on day one - chairman - 02-28-2018
NORTH SOUND, Antigua (CMC) – Shamarh Brooks struck a half-century but West Indies-A’s batting collapsed on the opening day of the day/night third four-day ‘Test’ against England Lions here, Monday.
Opting for first knock, the hosts reached a comfortable position of 150 for three at one stage before losing their last seven wickets for 86 runs, to be dismissed for 236 in their first innings at the Vivian Richards Cricket Stadium.
The right-handed Brooks, without a score of note in three previous innings in the series, top-scored with 63 while John Campbell and Rahkeem Cornwall both chipped in with 33.
Test batsman Jermaine Blackwood scored 28 and all-rounder Raymon Reifer, 27, but Lions struck critical blows in the latter half of the innings to restrict the Caribbean side.
Twenty-one-year-old fast bowler Saqib Mahmood (3-50) and left-arm spinner Jack Leach (3-58) finished with three wickets apiece while seamer Richard Gleason weighed in with two for 43.
At the close, Lions were 20 without loss, requiring a further 216 runs for first-innings lead.
Aiming for a clean sweep after comfortably winning the first two ‘Tests’ in Jamaica, Windies-A lost the early wicket of captain Kieran Powell for 11 with the score on 29, when he was caught at the wicket off Gleeson in the afternoon’s sixth over.
However, Windies-A then benefitted from two partnerships in regaining control of the innings. Campbell, who struck four fours in a 57-ball knock, added 46 for the second wicket with Blackwood who also counted four fours in a 62-ball stay at the crease.
Both perished within two runs of each other to leave Windies-A on 77 for three but Brooks and Jahmar Hamilton (20) posted 73 for the fourth to again steady the innings.
All told, Brooks faced 130 deliveries and notched nine fours and when Hamilton and wicketkeeper Shane Dowrich (0) fell in quick succession, he paired with Reifer in a 33-run, sixth-wicket stand.
Once Brooks was lbw to Gleeson, however, Windies-A’s innings went into decline as they lost wickets rapidly.
Brooks hits 63 but Windies-A collapse on day one - ketchim - 02-28-2018
102 all out
Lions are really kitty kats !
Stumps Day 2: West Indies A lead by 291 runs with 6 wickets remaining
FoW : 127/4 after 35.3 overs
Current Partnership : 30 runs, 9.3 overs..Hamilton and Dowrich.
Last Bat : Brooks lbw b Bess 37
Brooks hits 63 but Windies-A collapse on day one - ketchim - 02-28-2018
wktkeeper challenger Hamilton exits on 79
wktkeeper incumbent Dowrich still hanging on
lead is over 300