Out-of-favour West In­dies mid­dle-or­der bats­man Dar­ren Bra­vo scored an au­thor­i­ta­tive hun­dred in his re­turn to top-flight crick­et with Queen's Park against Mer­ry­boys at the Queens Park Oval on Sat­ur­day.

Bra­vo played with his boy­hood club San­ta Cruz in the North Zone last year and has now made his way back to Pre­mier­ship crick­et.

The for­mer Red Force cap­tain slammed 117 as the Tragerete road team scored 355 for 5 de­clared to seize con­trol over a Mer­ry­boys team with­out last year's cap­tain/coach Mario Bel­con, who is now with the pro­mot­ed York­shire.

In ad­di­tion to Bra­vo, Isa­iah ‘Big Raj’ Ra­jah, who nar­row­ly missed out on a Red Force se­lec­tion in the on­go­ing Crick­et West In­dies Re­gion­al First Class Cham­pi­onship, top scored with 143.

Mer­ry­boys were not so mer­ry at the close of play as they were 36 for 5 at stumps.

Mean­while, Clevon Khelawan's un­beat­en 43 laid the foun­da­tion for Clarke Road to have the up­per hand at home against Vic­to­ria on day one of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board Pre­mier League Di­vi­sion 1, yes­ter­day.

Nicholas Sookdeosingh’s home­com­ing from po­lice was not to plan as the at­tack­ing south­paw scored on­ly 10 be­fore he was bowled for 10. Kyle Hope, the for­mer West In­dies crick­eter and broth­er of West In­dies One Day cap­tain Shai Hope, made 27 at the top of the or­der, and Sha­trughan Ram­baran, who missed out on a Red Force se­lec­tion, scored an im­por­tant 29 to sta­bilise the top or­der.

There were oth­er con­tri­bu­tions from An­der­son Ma­hase and Tarique Mo­hammed with 26 and 21, re­spec­tive­ly, but Clarke Road was re­duced to 117 for five when Kha­lawan went out to the mid­dle.

The left-han­der hit on­ly two fours in his knock, the usu­al­ly ag­gres­sive at­tack­ing south­paw bat­ting with care as he guid­ed the home team to 187 all out in 63.2 overs.

Damion Joachim, now play­ing with the team he helped dec­i­mate for 23 last year, was their best bowler with 4 for 81. Vic­to­ria closed on 70 for 2 in 31 overs.

SUM­MARISED SCORES

At Clarke Road

Clarke Road 187 all (63.2 overs) (Clevon Khelawan 34*; Sha­trughan Ram­baran 29; Damion Joachim 4-81; Ak­shaya Per­saud 3-31) vs Vic­to­ria 70 /2 (31 overs) (Ak­shaya 23*; Mar­celle Jones 23*; Akheel Mol­lon 1-8).

At NCC

Bess Mo­tors Marchin Pa­tri­ots 401/4 dec (Evin Lewis 207; Gio­vante De­pieza 85; Stephen Shadick 2-94) vs York­shire 148 /4 (27 overs) (Trevon James 89; Ri­val­do Ram­lo­gan 3-29)

At Queen's Park Oval

Queen's Park 355 /5 (60.3 overs) (Isa­iah Ra­jah 143; Dar­ren Bra­vo 117; Daniel Os­ouna 2-56) vs Mer­ry­boys 36 /5 (14 overs) (Ger­ard Chin 11; Ab­dur Rah­man Ju­man 3-9)