BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – Jamaica beat Barbados about 35 minutes before tea on the third day of their first round match in the Regional Four-Day Championship on Monday.

Left-arm spinner Nikita Miller bowled the five-time defending champions to a 63-run victory over the home team.

Miller collected 5-34 from 23.5 overs, finishing with match figures of 10-67, to earn the Man-of-the-Match award, as the Barbadians, chasing 192 for victory, were bowled out for 128 in their second innings about half hour before tea on the third day of their first round match at Kensington Oval.

Jamaica captain Tamar Lambert supported Miller with 2-14 from six overs of his uncomplicated off-spin and leg-spinner Odean Brown grabbed 2-48 from 18 overs.

Shane Dowrich was the top scorer for Barbados with 31 not out, but no other batsman reached 20, as the home team a made mockery of friendly conditions.

The victory was formalised, when Miguel Cummins was run out for a duck backing up too far and failed to beat Jermaine Blackwood throw from short third man to the bowler, Miller.

The result meant that Jamaica started their defence with 12 points and Barbados slumped to their sixth straight defeat in regional tournaments in the last month.