ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – T&T Red Force pro­duced a sub­lime bowl­ing per­for­mance for the sec­ond straight day on their way to de­mol­ish­ing the Bar­ba­dos Pride by an in­nings and 56 runs in­side two days when the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship con­tin­ued on Thurs­day.

Af­ter be­ing bowled out for 86 on the open­ing day, the Pride were bun­dled out for 121 in their sec­ond in­nings at Kens­ing­ton Oval to suf­fer one of their most hu­mil­i­at­ing de­feats in the com­pe­ti­tion’s his­to­ry.

Else­where, the Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes, Ja­maica Scor­pi­ons and Guyana Harpy Ea­gles are all on top in their re­spec­tive match­es.

At Kens­ing­ton Oval: De­spite boast­ing a team of at least sev­en West In­dies play­ers, the Bar­ba­dos Pride pro­duced yet an­oth­er hor­ren­dous bat­ting per­for­mance to con­cede an em­bar­rass­ing in­nings and 56 run de­feat at the hands of the T&T Red Force in­side two days.

Re­sum­ing the day with a 96-run lead over the Pride, the Red Force ex­tend­ed that ad­van­tage to 177 be­fore be­ing dis­missed for 263.

Amir Jan­goo car­ried his overnight score of 37 to 56, but there was lit­tle oth­er sup­port ex­cept for Yan­nic Cari­ah’s 30, as medi­um pac­er Ja­son Hold­er stalled the Red Force’s progress with a five-wick­et haul.

Hold­er, along with fel­low pac­er Matthew Forde trig­gered a mid­dle or­der col­lapse that saw their op­po­nents lose their last six wick­ets for just 64 runs.

Hold­er fin­ished with 5-52, while Forde took 3-53.

Need­ing a big ef­fort in the sec­ond in­nings to have any chance of win­ning the match, the Pride’s bats­men once again fal­tered in the face of men­ac­ing bowl­ing from pac­ers Jay­den Seales, An­der­son Phillip and Joshua James.

Seales bowled Pride cap­tain Kraigg Brath­waite for two, Phillip had Zachary Mc­Cask­ie caught for eight and James bowled Jonathan Drakes for 10 to leave them in tat­ters at 34 for three.

And when James ac­count­ed for the wick­et of Kevin Wick­ham to make it 41 for four, the writ­ing was al­ready on the wall for the Pride.

Ros­ton Chase, who top­scored with 41 and Shai Hope tried their best to re­build the in­nings in a 59-run part­ner­ship for the fifth wick­et to car­ry the Pride in­to three fig­ures.

But Chase’s run out sig­naled the end of their re­sis­tance, be­fore Seales snagged the wick­et of Hope for 20 to ef­fec­tive­ly end the con­test as the Pride slumped to 100 for six.

Spin­ner Khary Pierre then took two late wick­ets, in­clud­ing the fi­nal one of Jomel War­ri­can to hand the Red Force one of their most dom­i­nant ever vic­to­ries in the tour­na­ment.

James end­ed with 3-16, Pierre took 2-11, Phillip 2-38 and Seales 2-50.

At Sir Vi­vian Richards Sta­di­um: The Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes are in com­plete con­trol of their match against the Com­bined Cam­pus­es and Col­leges head­ing in­to Fri­day’s third day of play.

Af­ter pil­ing up 425 in their first in­nings, fast bowler Alzarri Joseph then blew away CCC with a six-wick­et haul be­fore they sur­pris­ing­ly chose to de­clare their in­nings on 170 for nine, 255 runs in ar­rears.

Joseph grabbed the ear­ly wick­ets of Kier­an Pow­ell, Damel Eve­lyn and Shaqkere Par­ris to re­duce the CCC to 37 for three be­fore medi­um pac­er Justin Greaves joined in the ac­tion to dis­miss Kyle Corbin and Daniel Williams.

CCC need­ed an un­beat­en knock of 39 from Ro­mario Greaves and 26 from Chemar Hold­er to help them get up to their even­tu­al to­tal af­ter slip­ping to 106 for sev­en.

Joseph end­ed with the ad­mirable fig­ures of 6-35, while Greaves took 2-13.

The Hur­ri­canes chose not to en­force the fol­low on, end­ing the day on 94 for one, an over­all lead of 349 runs.

Ear­li­er, re­sum­ing on their overnight to­tal of 367 for five, the Hur­ri­canes were rocked by a five-wick­et haul by Hold­er to lose their last five wick­ets for 60 runs.

Hold­er took 5-107 and fel­low pac­er Akeem Jor­dan took 3-77.

At Coolidge Crick­et Ground: The Ja­maica Scor­pi­ons have in­stalled them­selves as firm favourites in their con­test against the West In­dies Acad­e­my hav­ing pushed their over­all lead to 274 runs with eight wick­ets re­main­ing.

Re­sum­ing on their overnight score of 332 for sev­en, the Scor­pi­ons were even­tu­al­ly dis­missed for 375 with Je­di­ah Blades grab­bing 4-64.

Car­lon Bowen-Tuck­ett and Mbe­ki Joseph then both hit half cen­turies, but the WI Acad­e­my suf­fered a mid­dle or­der col­lapse to be even­tu­al­ly bowled out for 211.

Bowen-Tuck­ett made 57 from 100 balls and Joseph scored 54 from 88 balls, to put the WI Acad­e­my in a strong po­si­tion at 172 for four.

How­ev­er, off spin­ner Brad Barnes and pac­er Ojay Shields staged a tremen­dous fight­back by the Scor­pi­ons that saw them claim the last six WI Acad­e­my wick­ets for the ad­di­tion of just 39 runs.

Barnes took 3-25 and Shields 3-40, while Mar­quino Mind­ley chipped in with 2-32.

Hav­ing se­cured a 164-run first in­nings lead, the Scor­pi­ons end­ed the day on 110 for two, with Bran­don King un­beat­en on 58 and Javelle Glenn on 20 not out.

At the Guyana Na­tion­al Sta­di­um: The Guyana Harpy Ea­gles are in sight of first in­nings lead against the Wind­ward Is­lands Vol­ca­noes in their rain-af­fect­ed match.

Af­ter on­ly 27 overs were pos­si­ble on the open­ing day, the Harpy Ea­gles, led by vet­er­an spin­ner Veerasam­my Per­maul lim­it­ed the Vol­ca­noes to 213 af­ter they re­sumed on 77 for two.

Open­er Je­re­my Solozano cracked 83 from 142 balls, cap­tain Al­ick Athanaze made 39 and Sunil Am­bris 33, but none of the oth­er Vol­ca­noes bats­men showed up to the par­ty.

Per­maul ran through the mid­dle and low­er or­der to claim 4-55, Gu­dakesh Motie took 3-44 and Kevin Sin­clair 2-44.

The Harpy Ea­gles then found them­selves in a tick­lish po­si­tion at 74 for three, be­fore Ke­mol Sa­vory and cap­tain Tevin Im­lach came to their res­cue.

Sa­vory end­ed un­beat­en on 46, while Im­lach was 40 not out, with the pair so far hav­ing added an un­beat­en 85 runs for the fourth wick­et to draw with­in 54 runs of the Vol­ca­noes’ to­tal.

CMC

Sum­marised scores

At Kens­ing­ton Oval in Bar­ba­dos: T&T Red Force de­feat Bar­ba­dos Pride by an in­nings and 56 runs.

PRIDE 86 & 121 in 45.4 overs (Ros­ton Chase 41, Shai Hope 20, Kevin Wick­ham 12, Jair McAl­lis­ter 11 not out, Jonathan Drakes 10; Joshua James 3-16, Khary Pierre 2-11, An­der­son Phillip 2-38, Jay­den Seales 2-50) vs RED FORCE 263 in 83.4 overs (Kamil Pooran 60, Amir Jan­goo 56, Cephas Coop­er 32, Yan­nic Cari­ah 30, Khary Pierre 22, Joshua James 10; Ja­son Hold­er 5-52, Matthew Forde 3-53).

At Sir Vi­vian Richards Sta­di­um in An­tigua: Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes lead Com­bined Cam­pus­es and Col­leges by 349 runs with nine wick­ets re­main­ing.

HUR­RI­CANES 425 in 98.5 overs (Jew­el An­drew 122, Justin Greaves 104, Kari­ma Gore 65, Kadeem Hen­ry 35, Alzarri Joseph 19, Jah­mar Hamil­ton 15, Kea­cy Car­ty 14, Rah­keem Corn­wall 10; Chemar Hold­er 5-107, Akeem Jor­dan 3-77) & 94-1 in 19 overs (Kadeem Hen­ry 41, Mikyle Louis 34 not out, Kea­cy Car­ty 16 not out) vs CCC 170-9 dec’d in 44 overs (Ro­mario Greaves 39 not out, Jo­hann Je­re­mi­ah 31, Chemar Hold­er 26, Kier­an Pow­ell 25, Kalvin Mar­cus 10 not out, Kyle Corbin 10; Alzarri Joseph 6-35, Justin Greaves 2-13).

At Coolidge Crick­et Ground in An­tigua: Ja­maica Scor­pi­ons lead West In­dies Acad­e­my by 274 runs with eight wick­ets re­main­ing.

SCOR­PI­ONS 375 in 95.2 overs (John Camp­bell 101, Javelle Glenn 68, Odean Smith 51, Brad Barnes 50, Jer­maine Black­wood 31, Jeav­or Roy­al 30, Bran­don King 14; Je­di­ah Blades 4-64, Akeem Au­guste 2-45) & 110-2 in 23 overs (Bran­don King 58 not out, Javelle Glenn 20 not out, Kirk McKen­zie 19; Jo­hann Layne 2-16) vs WI ACAD­E­MY 211 in 46.5 overs (Car­lon Bowen-Tuck­ett 57, Mbe­ki Joseph 54, Ted­dy Bish­op 30, Je­di­ah Blades 22, Jor­dan John­son 16, Ri­val­do Clarke 10, Joshua Bish­op 10; Brad Barnes 3-25, Ojay Shields 3-40, Mar­quino Mind­ley 2-32).

At the Guyana Na­tion­al Sta­di­um in Guyana: Guyana Harpy Ea­gles trail Wind­ward Is­lands Vol­ca­noes by 54 runs with sev­en wick­ets re­main­ing.

VOL­CA­NOES 213 in 61.5 overs (Je­re­my Solozano 83, Al­ick Athanaze 39, Sunil Am­bris 33, Kavem Hodge 17, Shadrack Descarte 15; Veerasam­my Per­maul 4-55, Gu­dakesh Motie 3-44, Kevin Sin­clair 2-54) vs HARPY EA­GLES 159-3 in 42 overs (Ke­mol Sa­vory 46 not out, Tevin Im­lach 40 not out, Ray­mond Perez 33, Kevlon An­der­son 21).