Robert Haynes, Jamaica Scorpions head coach, pointed to batting frailties after they lost by an innings and 11 runs to Barbados in the West Indies Championship third-round match at Sabina Park.

Jamaica began Tuesday morning with a mountainous task to force the Barbados team to bat a second time. It was not to be as the hosts were bowled out for 286 in their second innings.

The 25-year-old left-arm finger spinner Joshua Bishop was the standout bowler for the Pride, taking 5-72 to go with his four wickets in the first-innings demolition of the Scorpions on Monday.

Lower-order batsman Odean Smith, who blasted 73, and Brandon King (63) were the main scorers for the Scorpions, as notably, the pitch did not appear to offer as much turn and bounce as it did on day two.

Scores: Barbados 439 (112 ovs); Jamaica 142 (51 ovs) and 286 (70.4 ovs)

Jamaica had won the first contest of the three-match bilateral series two weeks ago at Chedwin Park, but surrendered first-innings points to the Pride last week at Sabina Park.

The defeat on Tuesday — which came well inside the third day of the scheduled four-day contest — ended the Scorpions regional first-class cricket season, while the victorious visitors advanced to the latter stages of the competition.

“The batting was the [major downfall]…I think we lost the game there,” Haynes told the Jamaica Observer during a post-match interview.

“It was an easy-paced wicket and Barbados batted pretty well although we still didn’t get the lines that we wanted, but the guys tried their best.”

Haynes, a former Jamaica and West Indies player, lamented the lack of application with the bat.

“We have to play situations, and we didn’t do that. The pitch was spinning a bit…but at the end of the day we didn’t look as if we wanted to accumulate runs by getting the ones and twos. Guys were going out there like they were afraid…and at the end of the day we just batted really bad,” he noted.

Kraigg Brathwaite, the Barbados captain, hailed his team for bouncing back from the defeat in the opening match.

“I’m very proud of the team. I thought we put in a good effort from the second game, getting first innings, [despite] that big total that Jamaica scored, and then getting a win in this last game is a very good effort,” Brathwaite said.

Reflecting on the triumph in the third match, the Pride skipper paid tribute to the batting and bowling departments for combining to ensure the Pride dominated from start to finish.

Jamaica resumed in brilliant sunshine on Tuesday from their overnight score of 22-1 in the second innings, all of 275 runs away from avoiding an innings defeat.

If the Scorpions were ever going to accomplish the unlikely, overnight batsmen King, who was unbeaten on 15, and left-hander Kirk McKenzie, on seven, would have needed to contribute in major ways.

But with the Scorpions on 31, McKenzie was sent back to the pavilion for only 12, leg before wicket to a delivery that appeared to keep low from left-arm pacer Jediah Blades.

Left-hander Javelle Glenn counter-attacked with a lively cameo, but that aggression led to his downfall as he was caught by Shamar Springer off the bowling of left-arm finger spinner Joshua Bishop. Glenn’s 15-ball 30 was laced with six fours and a six.

Brad Barnes lasted 28 balls for 16 runs, trapped lbw by Roston Chase with the score at 96-4.

Romaine Morris painfully huffed and puffed to get the ball off the square before he shockingly offered a return catch to Brathwaite’s loopy off break. The left-hander’s dismissal left Jamaica teetering on 128-5 smack on the lunch break.

At the other end, King, a West Indies Test batsman, was stylish as ever, pulling, sweeping, and driving his way to a half-century.

But the sweep shot led to his demise when he was given out lbw against West Indies Test left-arm finger spinner Jomel Warrican. King hit nine fours in his 63 runs from 144 deliveries.

Peat Salmon (28) was Bishop’s third wicket of the innings when he was caught by substitute fielder Johann Layne.

The powerfully built Smith, who unleashed a number of thunderous blows, and Abhijai Mansingh carried the Scorpions past 250 with an 86-run stand for the eighth wicket.

But when Mansingh was dismissed by Warrican for 35, the rest followed quickly.

Smith, who accounted for seven sixes and five fours off only 46 balls, was dismissed by Bishop, and last man Khari Campbell (0) fell to the same bowler as Barbados wrapped up a commanding win.

— Sanjay Myers

Jamaica Scorpions all-rounder Odean Smith (left) hits the ball as Barbados Pride’s Roston Chase (centre) and wicketkeeper Leniko Boucher look on during the West Indies Championship cricket match at Sabina Park.