Red Stripe: Rose tops the bowlers (2 Jun 1997)

2 June 1997

Rose tops the bowlers

The Jamiaca Gleaner

BRIDGETOWN, Cana: JAMAICAN fast bowler Franklyn Rose took the most wickets and topped the bowling averages in the 1997 Red Stripe Cup cricket championship which ended last Monday.

Rose, 25, captured a season-high 45 wickets in eight matches at a miserly average of 15.42 each. His best bowling performance was a first innings haul of six for 63 against the Leeward Islands in the sixth round when he also captured five for 36 in the second innings.

Experienced Guyana opening batsman Clayton Lambert topped the batting averages (64.85) after scoring 454 runs in four games after three of his team's matches were rained out.

The left-hander hit two centuries in the competition - 145 in the opening round game against champions Barbados and 159 against Trinidad and Tobago in a seventh round.

Barbados' middle order batsman Floyd Reifer had the highest aggregate, scoring 756 in the 10-round championship at an average of 44.47 to erase Brian Lara's previous record of 715 runs which was achieved in five games.

Reifer, a 24-year-old left-hander started the season with an unbeaten 151 against Guyana and made a career-best 200 against the Windward Islands in the ninth series.

Source:: The Jamiaca Gleaner (https://www.jamaica-gleaner.com)