Jamaicans dish up Windies ‘B’ in quick time

DISCOVERY BAY: Jamaica needed only 24 minutes on the third morning to complete a swift innings and 76-run victory over West Indies “B” in their fourth round Carib Beer 2003 Cricket Series match at Kaiser Sports Club yesterday.
West Indies “B”, trailing Jamaica by 207 runs on first innings, were bowled out for 131 at 10.24 a.m. local time, giving the struggling Cup holders Jamaica their first win of the season.
Pacer Audley Sanson and off-spinner Gareth Breese snatched the last two wickets as the West Indies “development” side added just 12 runs to their overnight score of 119 for eight.
Sanson removed Andrew Richardson (1) in the morning’s second over, and Breese earned a leg before wicket decision against Reon Thomas (9) to sink the winless West Indies “B” to their second loss in three matches so far this season.
Breese ended with remarkable figures of three for 12 off 11.5 overs with six maidens, while seamer David Bernard got three for 25 off eight overs, and pacer Darren Powell, two for 36 off nine overs.
Sanson (1-23) and Perry (1-13) were the other wicket-takers for the Jamaicans, who have moved from sixth to a tentative fourth in the standings pending the outcome of the other matches in the round.
The Jamaicans took a firm grip on the game from Friday, when “Man-of-the-Match” Powell (5-34), Bernard (3-14) and Breese (2-20) reduced West Indies “B” to 94 all out and closed day one — 31 runs ahead — at 125 for three.
In the fifth round starting Friday, Jamaica travel to face Guyana, and West Indies “B” tackle the Leeward Islands in Montserrat. (CMC)