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Da Silva, Carriah crack hundreds for T&T

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Vinode Mamchan
1804 days ago
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T&T Red Force batsmen Joshua DaSilva (113) and Yannick Cariah (100) celeberate after scoring centuries during the CWI Professional Cricket League match against Jamaica Scorpions at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba, San Fernando, yesterday. T&T Red Force made 460 for four.

T&T Red Force batsmen Joshua DaSilva (113) and Yannick Cariah (100) celeberate after scoring centuries during the CWI Professional Cricket League match against Jamaica Scorpions at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba, San Fernando, yesterday. T&T Red Force made 460 for four.

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Con­fi­dence can change a per­son and this was on show yes­ter­day as two men who won the re­cent Su­per-50 ti­tle scored hun­dreds to help the T&T Red Force in­crease their stran­gle­hold against the Ja­maica Scor­pi­ons on day two of their Crick­et West In­dies Pro­fes­sion­al Crick­et League match at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba.

Joshua Da Sil­va and Yan­nic Car­ri­ah both reached the mile­ston while skip­per Dar­ren Bra­vo added a half-cen­tu­ry as the Red Force de­clared on 460-4, be­fore peg­ging back at 94-3 by the close.

West In­dies open­er and Scor­pi­ons skip­per John Camp­bell was one off-spin­ner Bryan Charles’ ear­ly vic­tims and he added that of Jer­maine Black­wood, while medi­um pac­er Ter­rence Hinds re­moved As­sad Fu­dadin, for his first First Class wick­et, be­fore the um­pires called play.

Re­sum­ing on the overnight po­si­tion of 242-3 yes­ter­day, the Red Force had a plan in mind and that was to bat care­ful­ly in the first ses­sion. They scored just 64 runs in the pe­ri­od be­tween the start of play and lunch. They lost Bra­vo for 65 to a leg be­fore de­ci­sion that did not go down well with the left-hand­ed bats­man. He fell to pac­er Dur­val Green but re­plays showed that the ball pitched out­side the leg stump. His con­tri­bu­tion came off 164 balls with five fours and two six­es.

When Bra­vo left the to­tal was 300-4 and Da Sil­va was al­ready un­beat­en on 86.

Car­ri­ah, known as a grafter, came in and af­ter get­ting ac­cus­tomed to the bounce and pace of the pitch took off. The left-han­der dom­i­nat­ed the at­tack and kept the runs flow­ing as Da Sil­va be­came a mere on­look­er. Play­ing beau­ti­ful­ly through the off-side, Car­ri­ah brought great ex­cite­ment to the hand­ful of spec­ta­tors on hand. He dom­i­nat­ed to the ex­tent that he threat­ened to reach his cen­tu­ry be­fore Da Sil­va.

How­ev­er, Da Sil­va reached his hun­dred, his maid­en First Class ton and third at this ground in a month and a half. His cen­tu­ry came on the heels of cen­turies in the Su­per50 and the do­mes­tic Na­mal­co Un­der-23 se­ries.

When Car­ri­ah reached his cen­tu­ry off 135 balls with sev­en fours and two six­es, Bra­vo called in his men.

Da Sil­va was un­beat­en on 113 off 216 balls with eight fours and a six. Af­ter­wards, he put down this per­for­mance to his fit­ness and con­fi­dence.

“My body feels good and this led to my per­for­mance. Af­ter the re­gion­al Su­per50 I felt good and this has re­al­ly put me in a good frame of mind,” Da Sil­va told Guardian Me­dia, adding his pur­ple patch has a lot to do with his fit­ness.

“I have got­ten runs over the past few months and this I think it is due to my im­proved fit­ness. I am re­al­ly over­joyed with my first First Class cen­tu­ry and with a num­ber of West In­dies A team tours com­ing up this year I look­ing to get on.”

Play on the third day to­day be­gins at 10 am.

SCORE­BOARD

T&T Red Force v Ja­maica Scor­pi­ons

Red Force inns.

J. Solozano b Camp­bell*73

K. Hope lbw Green*9

K. Sim­mons c Thomas b Pow­ell*89

D. Bra­vo lbw Green*66

J. Da Sil­va not out*113

Y.Car­ri­ah not out*100

EX­TRAS:*10

TO­TAL: for 4 wk­ts dec.*460

Wk­ts at: 1-13, 2-148, 3-214, 4-300.

BOWL­ING: M. Mind­ley 26-7-57-0, D. Green 30-2-98-2, R. Pow­ell 16-1-41-1, A. Williams 5-3-6-0, D. Bul­li 6-0-43-0, P. Har­ty 36-2-117-0, J. Camp­bell 19-1-53-1, J. Black­wood 12-0-35-0, P. Palmer 1-0-7-0.

Ja­maica inns.

J. Camp­bell lbw Charles*18

A. Fu­dadin c Ho­sein b Hinds*9

P. Palmer not out*31

J. Black­wood b Charles*6

R. Pow­ell not out*25

EX­TRAS:*5

TO­TAL: for 3 wk­ts*94

Wk­ts at: 1-32, 2-32, 3-53.

BOWL­ING: T. Hinds 6-3-12-1, O. Smith 3-0-17-0, B. Charles 10-1-34-2, A. Ho­sein 8-0-27-0.


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