Mathurin career-best fails to stop Lions charge

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Left-arm spinner Gary Mathurin grabbed a career-best seven-wicket haul here yesterday but England Lions were poised to complete an emphatic victory over Windward Islands.
The 27-year-old picked up seven for 72 in an outstanding spell as the visitors declared their second innings and 290 for nine on the penultimate day of their sixth round Regional First Class Championship fixture at Windsor Park.

Set 356 to win, the Windwards slipped to 10 for two at the close as 19-year-old left-arm spinner Danny Briggs (2-0) snatched two wickets in nine balls, to leave the