Barbados Clubs: Greaves (4-23) mops up BET (4 July 1999)

4 July 1999

Barbados Clubs: Greaves (4-23) mops up BET

Philip Hackett

Leg-spinner Sherlon Greaves completed the excellent job started by ICB Empire's pacers as Cable and Wireless BET folded after electing to bat on a lively pitch.

Greaves took four for 23 from 6-1/2 overs but not before Antonio Mayers (30) led a bold lower-order rally in which the last four wickets added 60.

Barbados pacer Patterson Thompson started his new-ball spell with a maiden but was soon sending down a series of no-balls amidst some fiery but largely off-target deliveries.

His eight overs conceded 61 runs, 18 of them no-balls, but be was able to direct one straight at the stumps to remove a threatening Ron Bates for 19.

Marlon Blagrove, who bowled a ten-over spell unchanged in the pre-tea session, won an LBW appeal against Rommell Brathwaite, and there was more trouble for BET when Floyd Reifer was run out off the same ball in which Courtney Browne was missed at mid-off by Nicki Bowen.

Reifer attempted a second run but failed to beat Bowen's return to wicket-keeper Roland Holder, after being sent back by Browne.

In the same over, Jason Haynes, in his first match for Empire, plucked one out of the air in the gully to remove Brian Johnson off Jeremy Alleyne to reduce BET to 63 for four.

Browne soon followed, caught by Alleyne at mid-on to give the pacy and persistent Blagrove his second wicket.

A tea time position of 81 for five quickly declined to 82 for six when Greaves took a brilliant catch diving to his left off his own bowling to remove Anthony Morris.

Mayers and the lower order, particularly Lonelle Hutson (18), counter-attacked effectively but Greaves claimed them both.

Haynes spoiled his Empire debut by falling to Kirk Straughn as Empire crawled to 20 for one in 12 overs before the close.

Source :: The Barbados Nation