HPC reach 120-5 before rain washes out match

Nkrumah Bonner

The opening Group A match of the 2011 West Indies Super50 Championship between joint defending champions Barbados and the Sagicor High Performance Center (HPC) team at the Everest Cricket Club ground was delicately poised  yesterday before rain intervened and the game ended up being ruled a no contest.

Sent in to bat first in the game which was reduced to 34-overs-a-side, the HPC team was 100-5 after 20 overs when the players left the field.

And, although the sun came out fairly brightly in the afternoon and the ground staff at Everest burning the