Barbados Cricket Association article.
Bridgetown, Barbados - Kraigg Brathwaite has now gone where no other batsman in the 40-year history of the island's top one-day competition has ventured.
Again underlining his huge appetite for centuries, the champion Barbados first-class captain and West Indies Test opener set a new record in the BCA Sagicor General Super Cup championship with his sixth hundred and second in succession as CounterPoint Wanderers beat last year's finalists CGI Maple by 82 runs in a key Zone ''B match at Dayrells Road.
The 21-year-old Brathwaite scored 103 to lay the foundation for a total of 245 for eight off 50 overs after Wanderers lost the toss. He added 155 in 30.1 overs for the third wicket with Jonathan Drakes, who made 84.
Brathwaite faced 135 balls and struck ten fours while Drakes, like Brathwaite, a former Combermere School and West Indies Under-19 team player, also counted ten boundaries in his 95-ball knock.
Medium-pacers Khalid Springer and Kirk Brome each took four for 44 and 48 respectively.
Set a revised target of 244 in 47 overs following an interruption for rain, Maple were bowled out for 161 in 43.3 overs.
Seamers were again in the picture with Jerome Stuart grabbing three for 19, Diego Stuart three for 44 and former Barbados captain and West Indies player Ian Bradshaw, two for 27.
In the second series on July 6 and his first match of the 2014 tournament, Brathwaite scored an unbeaten 105 against Caribbean Alliance/Akobah Gardens Foundation at Church Hill.
He has now overtaken three batsmen in scoring the most centuries in the championship, which started in 1975. They are: Philo Wallace (Spartan), Romel Currency (UWI) and Dwayne Smith (YMPC).
While Wallace, Smith and Currency all hit their five centuries for their clubs, Brathwaite's first two hundreds were for Guardian General Barbados Youth and the other four for Wanderers.
ZONE A
At Desmond Haynes Oval:
Digicel Carlton upstaged Massy Stores Spartan by 28 runs.
After being sent in, Carlton scored 182 all out in 47.1 overs with Simon Naitram, over from UWI, hitting the topscore of 50 off 72 balls with three fours and two sixes, while Shomari Nurse made 47.
Left-arm spinner Andre "Ears" Marshall was the leading wicket-taker with three for 21.
Spartan were bowled out for 154, also in 47.1 overs. Barbados opener Rashidi Boucher sustained his fine form by scoring 50 off 80 balls with three boundaries. It followed centuries of 109 v Police at Queen's Park and 137 v BCL at Blenheim 'A', lifting his aggregate to 296 at an average of 98.66.
Renaldo Holder took three for 29.
At Blenheim 'A':
BRC BCL lost for the second time in as many matches as LIME triumphed by one wicket with seven balls to spare in an exciting finish to a match reduced to a 45-over because of rain.
BCL were bowled out for 147 in 44.4 overs. Pacer Rico Depeiza snatched four for 33 and off-spinner Michael Agard jr, three for 18.
LIME lost their ninth wicket in the 44th over with two runs needed for victory but squeezed home off the next ball. Captain Randy Thomas topscored with 41.
Jamar Phillips took three for 20 and Devon "Fletcher" Goodman, three for 28.
At Friendship:
Akeem Saunders, the 20-year-old St. Kitts batsman with first-class experience, hit 69 not out off 94 balls including four boundaries to help spur Premix & Precast Yorkshire to a six-wicket win on the Duckworth-Lewis method with 5.4 overs remaining over Police.
Chasing a revised target of 174 off 45 overs, Yorkshire started poorly with Junior Moore (0) and Armani Best (4) both falling to Nathan Haynes with only seven runs scored.
They were 36 for three when Dwayne Yearwood removed Akeem Nero for 17 before Jamar Layne and Saunders added 81 in 19 overs to change the tide.
Layne made 48 off 77 balls with two fours and one six before becoming another scalp for Haynes, who took three for 31 off five overs.
Former Barbados leg-spinning all-rounder Ryan "Shines" Layne scored 22 not out off 30 balls in unbroken stand of 57 with Saunders.
Police were dismissed for 178 in 43.5 overs after winning the toss. Amahl Nathaniel, a member of the champion Foundation 2013 Intermediate division team, scored 43 off 65 balls with three furs and one six, and Jamar Yearwood, 35.
At Bayfield:
Brathwaite Construction/Republic Bank St. Catherine pulled off a memorable one-wicket win with 3.3 overs remaining over Sagicor Life UWI in the only match which produced over 450 runs.
Needing 233 for victory in 50 overs, St. Catherine were jittery on 210 for nine in the 43rd over when Michael "Gus" Holder joined Alston Bobb, the Windward Islands player from St. Vincent.
But the pair stood firm, adding 23 in four overs as St. Catherine maintained their 100 % winning record.
Bobb was unbeaten on 21 while Holder made nine not out.
There were several handy contributions with skipper Shamar Cooke's 38 the topscore.
Marques Clarke took three for 44 and fellow pacer Dawayne Sealy, three for 64.
UWI, who were sent in, fell for 231 in 46.2 overs.
Kyle Corbin, fresh from a career-best 203 against Pickwick the previous day in the Elite division championship at 3Ws Oval, made 92 off 102 balls with six fours and two sixes, while veteran Floyd Reifer got 41.
Off-spinner Cooke grabbed five for 45 off ten overs including one maiden and seasoned left-arm spinner Derick Bishop, three for 32.
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BYE: Ince Transport MTW.
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ZONE B
At Pine/Wildey:
Wildey survived a scare before beating school team Caribbean Alliance/Akobah Gardens Foundation by three wickets in a low-scoring match which was reduced to a 47-over.
Foundation, who won the toss, tumbled to 65 all out in 27.5 overs - the lowest total so far this season. Coach Nhamo Winn topscored with 34 while off-spinner Khary Pierre took three for eight.
Wildey were tottering on 29 for five before left-hander David Carter, who was missed there times, scored 27 not out as they triumphed in 17.2 overs.
Left-arm spinner Pius Emillien took three for 36.
At Paragon:
As they did in the semi-finals of the Sagicor General Twenty20 championship against Wanderers, YMPC again choked at the death when victory was seemingly assured and this time tied with BDFSP.
Chasing a revised target of 202 in 36 overs, the Beckles Road team started the final over from off-spinner Renaldo Brathwaite operating at the southern end, needing six to win with four wickets standing.
But in bizarre style, they lost three wickets for five runs.
Nkosi Ross was run out for nought off thew first ball, Dario Bayne was stumped by Mario Rampersaud off the second ball, also for a 'duck', Francois Hurley took a single off the third and the fourth was hit for four over cover by Amal Nurse.
No runs were scored from the fifth and then Nurse was run out by Jamar Nicholls at mid-on by way of a throw to the bowler as YMPC ended on 201 for nine.
Steven Blackett made 50 off 69 balls with two boundaries, Cakvin Watson got 41 and Kemar JamarSmith and Jeremy Brathwaite, 35 each.
BDFSP were bowled out for 255 in 44.4 overs after the match was first reduced to a 46-over.
Left-hander Antonio Greenidge led the way with 84 off 61 balls containing six fours and four sixes, Mario Rampersaud and Dario Boyce each got 49.
Spinner Ross took five for 49 off nine overs.
At Bank Hall:
ICBL Empire brushed aside ESA Field Pickwick by seven wickets before the nucleus of their team leave the island on Tuesday for England on a cricket tour to mark the 100th anniversary of the club.
Sent in, Pickwick fell for 87 in 27 overs.
Pacer Tennyson Roach took four for 26 and left-arm spinner Jomel Warrican, three for 26.
Empire reached their target in 27 overs, led by 38 from Roston Chase.
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BYE: Guardian General Barbados Youth.
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POINTS (NB: Matches played in brackets).
ZONE A - St. Catherine 12 (3), Police 8 (3), UWI 8 (3), Yorkshire 8 (3), LIME 4 (2), Carlton 4 (3), Spartan 4 (3), BCL 0 (2), MTW 0 (2).
ZONE B - Empire 8 (3), Wanderers 8 (3), Maple 8 (3), Pickwick 8 (3), BDFSP 6 (3), YMPC 6 (3), Wildey 4 (2), Foundation 0 (2), Barbados Youth 0 (2).
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SERIES 4 - August 24
ZONE A - LIME v Spartan at Wildey; Yorkshire v Carlton at Friendship; MTW v BCL at Pine Basin; Police v St. Catherine at Weymouth. BYE: UWI.
ZONE B - Maple v Foundation at Trents; Barbados Youth v Wildey at Lester Vaughan, Cane Garden; YMPC v Wanderers at Beckles Road; Pickwick v BDFSP at Foursquare Oval. BYE: Empire.
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