BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Batting all-rounder Ryan Hinds bagged four wickets Tuesday as bowlers continued to enjoy the ascendancy in the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) trial match for the West Indies 2010 first-class season.
Hinds, as team captain, used his left-arm spin to claim four for 55 off 22 overs to limit Dwayne Smith’s XI to 172 for nine in the second innings on day two of the match at the Queen’s Park Ground in the city.
Significantly, the selection panel of Courtney Browne (chairman), Philo Wallace and Ezra Moseley decided Tuesday to abandon the match and use the final day as a full practice day.
The BCA web site said “batsmen and bowlers will be given an extended run” instead on yesterday’s scheduled final day.
Trailing by 88 runs on first innings after the Hinds XI had scored 235 all in response to their paltry total of 147 all out, Smith’s XI struggled again in the second innings against spin bowling – leggie Shad Simmons (2-10), off-spinner Kenroy Williams (2-51) and Hinds, who has played 15 Tests and 14 One Day Internationals for West Indies.
Williams had snared a remarkable eight for 35 off 18.4 overs in the first innings.
Earlier, the Hinds XI had moved their overnight score of 164 for seven to 235 with Patrick Browne (36) joining Monday’s top scorers Dale Richards (54), Alcindo Holder (31) and Roston Chase (30) as chief run-getters in the innings.
Left-arm spinner Jamar Griffith (3-27), Smith (2-28) and Marlon Graham (2-28) led the bowling for Smith’s side.
When the new-look WICB Regional Four-Day competition starts on January 8 with three matches in Jamaica, Barbados will open against the Leeward Islands while Jamaica play the Windward Islands and Trinidad and Tobago face Combined Campuses and Colleges.
