Browne leads Barbados to victory

Barbados 267 for 6 (Browne 90*, Nurse 47) defeated Trinidad and Tobago 191 for 8 (Powell 49) by 41 runs in a rain-affected match
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Trinidad and Tobago batsman Samuel Badree is bowled by Dwayne Smith © T&TE

Barbados beat Trinidad and Tobago by 41 runs under Duckworth-Lewis in a rain-hit second round match to record their first win of the KFC Cup this season.

Chasing 268 for victory off 50 overs, Daren Ganga's team were 181 for 7 in the 39th over, when rain swept across the Banks Breweries ground just before 5pm. After the rain abated, the target was revised to 233 off 40 overs - effectively leaving Trinidad and Tobago to score 52 more runs from 11 balls. They ended on 191 for 8, their second defeat of the campaign. The title holders are now under pressure to reach the final four.

Barbados' 267 for 6 off 50 overs was due mainly to a hurricane unbeaten 90 off 50 balls from captain Courtney Browne, who was let off four times. Browne and Ian Bradshaw blasted 110 off 64 balls in an unbroken seventh-wicket stand to lift the tempo in stunning fashion.

Browne slammed six sixes and an equal number of fours as he made Trinidad and Tobago pay dearly for their awful fielding lapses which started from the off. Bradshaw contributed 23 from 20 deliveries. Not afraid to go over the top, Browne timed the ball sweetly and never relented once he got into stride.

The opener Martin Nurse, who scored 47, also had three chances with Rodney Sookal the chief culprit. Trinidad and Tobago lost wickets steadily after a second wicket partnership of 55 in 13 overs between Ganga and Lendl Simmons, who both scored 31.

They slipped to 112 for 6 in the 29th over before Ricardo Powell, who topscored with 49 balls 46 balls with three sixes and three fours, added 67 in nine overs with Rayad Emrit (33 not out) as they desperately tried to lift the scoring rate. The medium-pacer Dwayne Smith was the leading wicket-taker with three for 43.

Sherwin Ganga fell for 9 in the fifth over of the innings, edging Fidel Edwards to the wicket-keeper Browne. The stand between Simmons and Daren Ganga was ended when left-arm spinner Sulieman Benn had Simmons lbw as he pushed forward. Gregory Mahabir was run out for 4 and Ganga cut Smith to point. Richard Kelly was caught at long-on, while Samuel Badree was comprehensively bowled - both falling to Smith as Barbados tightened their grip.

With rain threatening, Powell was given a read-out of the Duckworth Lewis target scores but he was soon deceived by a slower ball from the left-arm pace bowler Bradshaw and offered an easy return catch.

Earlier, Dale Richards fell for 2 in the second over of the match, slicing Ravi Rampaul to third man. Kurt Wilkinson had not scored when he was put down at second slip by Badree off Kelly and Nurse was missed on 16 at long-off by Sooklal off Kelly. There was another escape for Nurse on 24 as Sooklal dropped another catch, this time at third man.

Wilkinson fell in the 13th over, bowled off the inside edge by Kelly before Nurse and Floyd Reifer put together 56 in 17.5 overs for the third wicket. Sherwin Ganga, with his gentle off-spin, removed Reifer for 35 off 53 balls and soon accounted for Nurse who was at the crease for 90 deliveries, hitting four boundaries.

At 115 for4 in the 33rd over, Barbados needed to boost their scoring rate. Smith helped himself to 28 from 23 balls before he was bowled by Rampaul, who had Alcindo Holder lbw for 17 in his next over.

Sooklal was again the culprit when Browne on 11 lifted Emrit to deep mid-off. On 41 Browne was dropped at extra cover by Ganga off Gooljar, and mis-stumped without adding any more in the same over. At 65 he was dropped at deep mid-off by Gooljar off Kelly - and went on to make them pay.