Trinidad and Tobago Red Force Dominates Barbados Pride with an Innings Win in West Indies Championship Match

Trinidad and Tobago 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 Trinidad and Tobago 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.

(CMC)