Jamaica: County Championship - Melbourne on the way (24 Aug 1998)
Scores: Lucas 107 and 147; Melbourne 259 for nine declared
24-Aug-1998
24 August 1998
Melbourne on the way
The Jamaica Gleaner
At Melbourne Oval
Scores: Lucas 107 and 147; Melbourne 259 for nine declared.
Melbourne exploited Lucas' poor batting form to register a
comprehensive innings and four-run win, in their two-day County
Championship cricket encounter which ended at Melbourne Oval
yesterday.
The result moved Melbourne to 13 points placing them in a strong
position to top the championships going in to this weekend's final
round. Lucas remained on seven points.
The Derrymore Road-team had veteran paceman Junior Hall, who had
match figures of 8 for 68, to thank mainly for their success.
Hall, playing in his first match of the season, engineered Lucas'
first innings demise by capturing six for 20.
Openers Aubrey Wollaston (63),and former West Indies Test batter
Robert Samuels, helped them to strengthen that position by posting a
triple-figure stand, which paved the way for a 109-run lead by the
end of Saturday's first day when they had totalled 216 for five.
Windward Islander Casper Davis (five for 70), who accounted for two
of Melbourne's first five wickets for 55 runs on Saturday, had better
returns yesterday in the home team's knock that was abbreviated with
a healthy 151-run advantage.
Lucas' response to that mammoth deficit was just as woeful as the
first innings when one person (Christopher Gayle - 50) made a
respectable individual score.
Alford Givance armed-up that responsibility by scoring 45 in their
second innings, as others around him fell cheaply to the spin/pace
combination of Marlon Samuels, who claimed three for 23 to add to his
first innings two for 12, Hall (two for 48) and Ray Stewart (two for
48).
At Chedwin Park
Scores: Cornwall: 174 and 143 for three; St. Catherine 280 for
three declared.
Tony Powell scored an unbeaten century to guide St. Catherine Cricket
Club to first innings points over Cornwall in their rain affected
game.
Powell who featured in a 115-wun stand with Milton Thomas for the
third wicket went on to score 141 not out with four sixes and 17
fours. Tamar Lambert was unbeaten on 30 when declaration came.
Needing 106 runs to avoid an innings defeat Cornwall were comfortably
placed at 143 for three when rain ended play after tea.
At Kaiser
Scores: Surrey 356 for seven declared. Top scorers were Bryan
Murphy 108 n.o., Mario Ventura 62 and Wavell Hinds 52. In reply,
Middlesex (77 without loss overnight), made 383 for seven.
Leon Garrick hammered a century to lead Middlesex to first innings
points, in a high-scoring game against Surrey.
Leading run-getters were Leon Garrick 139, Frederick Redwood 86 and
Ricardo Powell 68. Bryan Murphy took three for 95.
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