Promis­ing teenage bats­man Nicholas Pooran blast­ed an un­beat­en 130 and Rayad Em­rit struck 72 be­fore re­tir­ing, as the three-day tri­al match be­tween Ja­son Mo­hammed's XI and Yan­nick Ot­t­ley's XI pe­tered out in­to a tame draw at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre, Bal­main, yes­ter­day.

Re­ply­ing to Mo­hammed XI's 276, Ot­t­ley's XI re­sumed at 228-5, and af­ter los­ing Im­ran Khan (1) and Ot­t­ley (15), Pooran and Em­rit took over in an en­ter­pris­ing part­ner­ship that yield­ed 154 runs, be­fore Em­rit re­tired. Their re­spec­tive in­nings in­spired their team to 441.

Mo­ham­mmed's team reached 159 for six in their sec­ond turn at the crease, with Daron Cruick­shank blast­ing his way to 78.

Em­rit, who is re­turn­ing from an in­jured shoul­der, showed no traces of dif­fi­cul­ties, play­ing some big shots which in­clud­ed sev­en fours and three six­es. He and Pooran added 50 in just 77 de­liv­er­ies.

Pooran, in par­tic­u­lar, looked in good form, start­ing slow­ly be­fore blast­ing his way to 50 from just 58 balls. His hun­dred came off 96 balls and he struck 11 fours and four six­es in his stay at the crease.

Shan­non Gabriel who took 3-72 was the best bowler while Amit Jag­ger­nauth took 2-58.

There was a wick­et each for Derone Davis, Kisson­dath Ma­gram, Yan­nic Cari­ah and Ricky Jaipaul.

In their sec­ond turn at the crease, Mo­hammed's XI lost Je­re­my Solozano (22), Nicholas Sookdeosingh (22) and Justin Guillen (12) be­fore Cruick­shank and Steven Kat­wa­roo (25 not out) stead­ied the in­nings in a part­ner­ship of 104.

Cruick­shank's knock in­clud­ed 10 fours and three six­es. His 50 came off just 51 balls.

Sher­win Gan­ga took 2-25.

The team is prepar­ing for the Su­per50 se­ries which will be con­test­ed here in Trinidad lat­er this month.

SCORES

JA­SON MO­HAMMED XI 276 & 159-6 (D. Cruick­shank 78, S. Kat­war­roo 25 not out) OT­T­LEY'S XI 441 (N. Pooran 130 not out, R Em­rit 72 ret., S Gabreil 3-72, A Jag­ger­nauth 2-58)