West Indies Domestic: Fire Service ahead in final

Medium-pacers Alex Bynoe and Wilfred Moseley bowled well to give Barbados Fire Service first innings lead over Brathwaite's Construction Lords in the Division 2 cricket final.

By the close of the second and penultimate day of the match at the Barclays ground, Highgate, Fire Service had reached 43 without loss in their second innings.

It gives them an overall lead of 62 ahead of Saturday's final day.

Bynoe and Moseley sent down 34.4 consecutive overs - only broken by tea -between them at a cost of 56 runs to send Lords tumbling for 146 all out in reply to the fire-fighters' 165.

The muscular Bynoe, operating from the northern end, picked up four for 46 off 24 overs, while the 47-year-old Moseley claimed four for 25 off 19.4 overs.

Starting the day at 19 for one, St. Lucy team Lords eased to 93 for two with Trevor Boyce and David Bowen in full control. But once Moseley, in his second over, bowled Bowen for 34, the slide started.

Bynoe trapped Deryck Greaves lbw for two and, with only two runs added to the score, the solid Boyce went lbw to Moseley for 31, leaving the score 98 for five.

Shawn Broomes and Dale Boyce started to stage a recovery, adding 23 useful runs for the seventh wicket.

The patient Broomes took 29 deliveries to get off the mark. He had made 26 when he drove loosely at Bynoe and was caught by wicket-keeper Henderson Patrick.

Moseley cleaned up the innings by bowling Julien Gibbons.

With a minimum of eight overs left, twin brothers Alvin and Andrew Mapp batted sensibly and cautiously to be undefeated on 27 and 13.