Campbell (135) puts Bajans in sight of victory

BRIDGETOWN: A century from opening batsman Sherwin Campbell yesterday helped put Barbados in a dominant position over the West Indies “B” team in their seventh-round match of  the Carib Beer Series regional cricket tournament.

Campbell struck his second century of the season, 135 in just under six hours, to help Barbados to 353 for nine declared, in reply to the Windies first-innings total of 115. Fast bowler Jason Bennett, a Barbadian playing for the “B” team, was the pick of the bowlers with five wickets for 83 runs from 26 overs. Given all of the evening period to bat after the Barbadians declared at tea, West Indies “B” reached 181 for six in their second innings when stumps were drawn on the second day of the four-day match at Kensington Oval. Behind on first innings by 238, the West Indies “B” were overpowered by the ruthless Barbadian bowlers and lost wickets at a regular rate to raise the prospects of a fifth triumph for Barbados. The wicket of Trinidad and Tobago’s Aneil Kanhai, caught at slip off off-spin bowler Ryan Hurley for 47 just before the close, put the screws on the “B” team. He and Carlton Baugh Jr., who is still undefeated on 47, batted with some enterprise to give their side some respectability with a sixth-wicket stand of 82 inside the final hour.