Miller delivers - Spinner's 'five-for' hands Ja innings honours

BY SANJAY MYERS Observer staff reporter myerss@jamaicaobserver.com

Sunday, February 12, 2012

LEFT-ARM spinner Nikita Miller took five wickets yesterday to lift reigning champions Jamaica to first-innings honours in the second round regional four-day match against Barbados on a dry and dusty Sabina Park pitch.

Replying to Jamaica's first-innings score of 287 on day one, the Barbados team resumed on five without loss, but were undermined by Miller as well as the fast bowling pairing of Sheldon Cotterell and Andrew Richardson and was dismissed for 157.

Openers Danza Hyatt and Simon Jackson then put on a 57-run partnership against the rampaging Barbados pace trio of Kemar Roach, Tino Best and Fidel Edwards to help push Jamaica to 78-4 at the close of day two.

Scores: Jamaica 287 all out (84.4 overs) and 78-4 (35 overs); Barbados 157 all out (57.3 overs)

Play is scheduled to resume today at 10:00 am with night watchman Andrew Richardson not out on eight and captain Tamar Lambert on zero.

With a lead of 208 and two days remaining in the clash, the home team is in a very strong position to force an outright win over their fierce rivals.

In only the second over of the day, Barbados opener Kraigg Brathwaite (4) curiously chose to leave alone an in-swinging delivery from left-arm fast bowler Sheldon Cotterell and was trapped leg before wicket.

Cotterell, who got the new ball to shape in sharply to the right-handers, was fortuitous to get the wicket of Kirk Edwards (3) when the Bajan captain was given out to a catch by wicketkeeper Carlton Baugh down the leg side. The ball seemed to have clipped thigh pad instead of the bat.

Kirk Edwards' demise left Barbados floundering at 23-2.

It was soon 30-3 when the left-handed Ryan Hinds (0) was caught smartly by the reliable Simon Jackson at second slip off the bowling of Andrew Richardson.

Barbados fought back however, as the left-handed pair of Omar Phillips and Jonathan Carter sought to counter-attack the Jamaican bowlers and added 51 for the fourth wicket.

There were moments of fortune for Phillips as the Jamaican fielders at times, showed lack of concentration and application in the field.

Phillips was dropped by Baugh down the leg side off Richardson when on four and mis-stumped by the pint-sized wicketkeeper off Miller on 14.

He proceeded to use his feet effectively against the leg-spin of Odean Brown and hit a couple of boundaries down the ground. He got a third life when later in his knock, the usually assured Hyatt put down a sharp chance at slip off Brown.

Carter had no such luck.

The small-framed middle-order batsman, who never really looked settled, carelessly slog swept Miller straight into the hands of Richardson at deep mid-wicket to leave Barbados on 81-4.

It was soon 121-6 when Kenroy Williams (11) and wicketkeeper/batsman Shane Dowrich (4) were dismissed by Brown and Miller, respectively.

Miller, who sometimes extracted sharp turn on the haggard-looking batting surface, accounted for three wickets in four balls as Barbados slipped to 123-9.

The tall and lanky Sulieman Benn (0) swung wildly to the leg side and was bowled by a stock left-arm orthodox delivery. Kemar Roach (0) was totally flummoxed by a wickedly turning ball that pitched on middle and crashed into off stump, while Best (0) was neatly stumped by Baugh.

The last wicket pair of Edwards and Phillips added 34 runs before Richardson finally dismissed the latter for a resolute 67 when he miscued a pull and was caught by Miller at cover.

The 29-year-old Miller ended with outstanding figures of 5-25 off 22 overs, while the strongly-built Cotterell impressed with 2-7 off seven. Richardson snared 2-30.

Jackson (22) and Hyatt (28) proceeded to stretch Jamaica's lead despite the grandest of efforts from Best and Edwards on a surface that offered neither pace nor sideways movement to the quicks.

The fast bowlers were particularly severe on Jackson, whom they worked over with a barrage of short deliveries.

It was the other pacer--Roach, who finally got the breakthrough when he had both batsmen caught, edging to the promising Dowrich.

The left-arm slow bowler Benn soon got into the act when he sent back Nash (7) to the pavilion--caught by Hinds at leg slip. Pagon made five before he was trapped lbw by the left-arm spin of Hinds with only two balls remaining in the day.

Roach has so far taken 2-9 off nine overs.

Scoreboard

JAMAICA 1st Innings 287

BARBADOS 1st Innings (overnight 5-0)

K Brathwaite lbw b Cotterell 4

*K Edwards c wkp Baugh b Cotterell 3

O Phillips c Pagon b Richardson 67

R Hinds c Jackson b Richardson 0

J Carter c Richardson b Miller 26

K Williams c Nash b Brown 11

+S Dowrich lbw b Miller 4

S Benn b Miller 0

K Roach b Miller 0

T Best st Baugh b Miller 0

F Edwards not out 10

Extras (b13, lb11, w5, nb3) 32

TOTAL (all out, 57.3 overs) 157

Fall of wickets: 1-16, 2-23, 3-30, 4-81, 5-106, 6-121, 7-123, 8-123, 9-123, 10-157.

Bowling: Richardson 8.3-2-30-2, Cotterell 7-3-7-2, Miller 22-8-25-5, Bernard 4-0-15-0, Brown 16-3-56-2.

JAMAICA 2nd Innings

S Jackson c wkp Dowrich b Roach 22

D Hyatt c wkp Dowrich b Roach 28

D Pagon lbw b Hinds 5

B Nash c Hinds b Benn 7

*T Lambert not out 0

A Richardson not out 8

Extras (b1, lb3, w1, nb3) 8

TOTAL (4 wkts, 35 overs) 78

Fall of wickets: 1-57, 2-58, 3-70, 4-78.

Bowling: Edwards 6-1-15-0, Best 5-0-22-0, Roach 9-5-9-2, Benn 11-3-20-1, Hinds 4-1-8-1.

Position: Jamaica lead by 208 runs.

Toss: Jamaica.

Umpires: Nigel Duguid, Vivian Johnson.

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