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Saturday, May 24, 2025

Solozano hundred props up Championship XI

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Sport Desk
296 days ago
20240801
West Indies’ Jeremy Solozano plays a forward defensive shot during first innings in the South Africa tour of West Indies warmup match at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba, yesterday. Solozano scored 111 runs off 211 balls in the first innings.

West Indies’ Jeremy Solozano plays a forward defensive shot during first innings in the South Africa tour of West Indies warmup match at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba, yesterday. Solozano scored 111 runs off 211 balls in the first innings.

DANIEL PRENTICE

Left-han­der Je­re­my Solozano forced him­self in­to the se­lec­tion frame for the up­com­ing Test se­ries against South Africa with an im­pres­sive hun­dred on day one of the four-day tour match against the tourists at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my, Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Wednes­day.

The 28-year-old carved out 111 as the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship XI re­cov­ered from 34 for three to reach 245 for six at Bri­an Lara Sta­di­um af­ter be­ing asked to bat first.

All-rounder Shamar Springer struck an un­beat­en 45, while Amir Jan­goo chipped in with 30 and Kea­cy Car­ty and cap­tain Justin Greaves, 24.

Fast bowler Kag­iso Raba­da led South Africa’s at­tack with three for 47.

In fact, the right-armer claimed the first three wick­ets when he knocked over Tage­nar­ine Chan­der­paul for one and then claimed Car­ty and Kevin Wick­ham (0) in the same over.

How­ev­er, Solozano, who played one Test against Sri Lan­ka three years ago but was in­jured in the field and nev­er bat­ted, steered his side out of trou­ble with a knock that re­quired 211 de­liv­er­ies and in­clud­ed 16 fours and a six.

Im­por­tant­ly, he stitched to­geth­er a fourth wick­et stand of 51 with Greaves, put on a fur­ther 49 with Jan­goo for the fifth wick­et be­fore part­ner­ing in a cru­cial 103-run stand for the sixth wick­et with Springer.

Solozano even­tu­al­ly per­ished about 25 min­utes from the close, but Springer re­mained stead­fast, his knock so far in­clud­ing five fours and a six and com­ing from 82 de­liv­er­ies.

The West In­dies take on South Africa in the first Test start­ing next Wednes­day at Queen’s Park Oval.

Sum­merise Scores

WEST IN­DIES CHAM­PI­ONSHIP XI 245 for six (Je­re­my Solozano 111, Shamar Springer 45 not out, Amir Jan­goo 30, Kea­cy Car­ty 24, Justin Greaves 24; Kag­iso Raba­da 3-47) vs SOUTH AFRICA


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