TAROU­BA – Their bowlers, led by Pre­ston Mc­Sween and Lar­ry Ed­ward, set it up, and their bats­men for­malised a six-wick­et win for Wind­ward Is­lands Vol­ca­noes against Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes in the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship on Sat­ur­day at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my, San Fer­nan­do.

Left-arm pac­er Mc­Sween end­ed with five for 39 from 13 overs, and left-arm spin­ner Ed­ward grabbed three for nine from eight overs, and the Hur­ri­canes were bowled out for 144 in their sec­ond in­nings about half-hour be­fore lunch on the fi­nal day of their fourth round match at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my.

Need­ing 174 to win, Test bats­man Sunil Am­bris made 40 not out and led sol­id top-or­der bat­ting for the Vol­ca­noes and they reached their tar­get about 15 min­utes af­ter tea to clinch their sec­ond win of the sea­son.

Vol­ca­noes cap­tain and first in­nings cen­tu­ry-mak­er Al­ick Athanaze made 38, open­er Keron Cot­toy got 37, and Kavem Hodge, an­oth­er first in­nings cen­tu­ry-mak­er, added 27.

Bar­ba­di­an wick­et­keep­er-bats­man Tevyn Wal­cott for­malised the re­sult when he pulled a de­liv­ery from Kofi James, bowl­ing his un­com­pli­cat­ed off-spin, through square leg for four.

The re­sult meant Vol­ca­noes se­cured 20.2 points from the con­test and jumped to 58 in the stand­ings, and Hur­ri­canes gained 7.2 to inch to 41.4.

In the fi­nal round start­ing on Wednes­day, Vol­ca­noes bat­tle Bar­ba­dos Pride at Queen’s Park Oval in the Trinidad & To­ba­go cap­i­tal of Port of Spain, in a con­test that will de­cide run­ners-up, at the same time that Hur­ri­canes face hosts and ta­ble lead­ers Guyana Harpy Ea­gles at the Guyana Na­tion­al Sta­di­um.

Ear­li­er, long-serv­ing open­er Montcin Hodge added 14 to his overnight score and fin­ished with the top score of 59 for the Hur­ri­canes, but none of the oth­er bats­men that came to crease on the day reached 20.

Hur­ri­canes stum­bled to 99 for five at the close on the pre­vi­ous day, and they lost their last five wick­ets for 30 in the span of 63 balls with Ed­ward be­ing the chief wreck­er of the bot­tom half of the bat­ting.

He re­moved Unit­ed States in­ter­na­tion­al Karim Gore for six, Je­re­mi­ah Louis for 11, and Javier Spencer for a duck, all to lbw de­ci­sions, and Mc­Sween bowled first in­nings cen­tu­ry mak­er Kofi James for 12 and Rah­keem Corn­wall for one to help mop up the tail.

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At Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my:

LEE­WARDS HUR­RI­CANES 382 for nine de­clared (Kofi James 107, Kari­ma Gore 93, Kier­an Pow­ell 75, Je­re­mi­ah Louis 45; Sher­mon Lewis 3-76, Pre­ston Mc­Sween 2-68, Ken­neth Dem­ber 2-103) and 144(Montcin Hodge 45 not out, Jah­mar Hamil­ton 22; Pre­ston Mc­Sween 13-0-39-5, Lar­ry Ed­ward 3-9) vs WIND­WARDS VOL­CA­NOES 353 (Kavem Hodge 137, Al­ick Athanaze 128; Je­re­mi­ah Louis 4-46, Rah­keem Corn­wall 4-109) and 174 for four (Sunil Am­bris 40, Al­ick Athanaze 38, Keron Cot­toy 37, Kavem Hodge 27; Rah­keem Corn­wall 2-53). Wind­wards Vol­ca­noes won by 6 wick­ets.