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Bridgetown, Barbados - Kyle Corbin sustained his fine form over the last four months by slamming his second ever century in the Sagicor General Super Cup Championship.
Corbin's commanding century in Series 8 on Sunday was the foundation for a big total by former champions Sagicor Life UWI, who rebounded savagely from a crushing loss to title holders LIME, with an equally ruthless demolition of Ince Transport MTW as the race for a couple remaining places in the knockout phase intensified.
After the humiliation of being bowled out for under 100 for the first time ever in the nine years they have been competing - they made 85 in 25.2 overs to lose by a massive 246 runs at the 3Ws Oval two weeks ago - UWI manhandled Division 1 side MTW, winning by 223 runs at the large Pine Basin ground in Zone 'A'.
Corbin, a 24-year-old opener, lashed 101 off 105 balls with eight fours in a total 265 for seven off 50 overs - the highest of Series 8 - after the home side had won the toss.
MTW were bundled out for 42 in only 18.4 overs against a quartet of spinners - all of whom are non-nationals and all with first-class experience.
Left-arm chinaman Kristopher Ramsaran of Trinidad & Tobago took three for two off three overs, his compatriot Yannick Ottley, also a left-armer, three for 16 off six overs, Dominican Kavem Hodge, yet another left-armer, three for 22 off nine overs and leg-spinner Keron Cottoy, a Vincentian, one for two off four balls.
Levi Cadogan was the only batsman to reach double-figures with 12 off 30 balls.
Corbin's other hundred in the 40-year history of the top local one-day tournament was seven years ago for Guardian General Barbados Youth when he made an unbeaten 109 against Police at Weymouth in the fourth series.
It has been a dream season for the stylish Corbin in both the Super Cup and Elite division three-day competitions since both started in June. In the Super Cup, he has 266 runs at an average of 53.20, and is the second highest run-getter in the Elite division Championship with 622 runs including two centuries, one of which is a double (ave: 51.83).
No wonder the Barbados selectors picked the former Combined Campuses & Colleges player in their initial Draft of ten players for the 2014-15 West Indies Professional Cricket League season, which starts mid November with the first-class four-day championship.
UWI's win was their fourth in six matches, carrying them to 16 points - the same as Premix & Precast Yorkshire - 12 points behind Brathwaite Construction/Republic Bank St. Catherine who remain the only team to have won all of its matches.
LIME stepped up their desperate bid for a place in the quarter-finals with a 110-run victory over Police to Wildey and have now jumped to fourth place on 12 points.
But while UWI and Yorkshire are favoured to join St. Catherine in the last eight, it is still a toss up for the other place in the Zone among LIME, record eight-time champions Massy Stores Spartan, Police and MTW.
Spartan's chances of advancing received a very big dent when they collapsed dramatically to lose by seven runs on the Duckworth-Lewis method to St. Catherine at Queen's Park. With ten points and only one match remaining against UWI at Queen's Park, Spartan must win and rely on the outcome of other matches to stand a mathematical chance of going forward (See Points and remaining matches at the bottom).
In a bottom-of-the-table clash at Blenheim 'A' which ended in roughly three-and-a-half hours, Digicel Carlton crushed Glassesco BCL by six wickets. The match ended at 12.33 p.m.
In Zone 'B', ESA Field Pickwick and last year's finalists CGI Maple both confirmed their quarter-final places with commanding wins as they moved to 22 points.
Pickwick defeated school side Caribbean Alliance Insurance/Akobah Gardens Foundation by 55 runs on the D/L method at Foursquare Oval, while Maple beat Wildey by 31 runs at Trents.
ICBL Empire are also expected to reach the knockout stage following a resounding nine-wicket win over BDFSP at Paragon, which took them to 18 points in third place.
CounterPoint Wanderers had a big setback in their quest for a berth in the quarter-finals after losing by 19 runs to Barbados Youth at the Lester Vaughan ground, Cane Garden.
ZONE A
At Queen's Park:
This was a horrible defeat for Spartan, leaving them with a very remote chance of reaching the quarter-finals.
Chasing 191 in 48 overs to win, Spartan were well on course to stop St. Catherine's winning streak when they reached 154 for two at the end of the 38th over with Marrodon Bend and Shamarh Brooks well entrenched in a century stand.
The equation, therefore, appeared simple - 37 more runs off 60 balls with eight wickets intact.
But Spartan slowed and were limited to 183 for seven.
Their sudden problems started in the first ball of the 39th over when Bend was stumped by Tevyn Walcott off veteran left-arm spinner Derick Bishop for 61, which was the topscore. Bend faced 106 balls and struck two fours and one six.
It ended a partnership of 106 in 35.4 overs.
Brooks followed off the last ball of the 40th over, leg before wicket by Bishop for 56, which came off 83 balls and contained three boundaries.
Andre Gill perished first ball, caught by Walcott off Bishop in the 41st over and left-hander Jameel Stuart and Jabbar Niles then both became bogged down, adding 16 in 5.5 overs before Stuart fell for 12 off 22 balls off the last delivery of the 46th over to the versatile left-armer Darnell Greenidge, who switched from pace to spin, leaving the score on 175 for six.
Two balls later and without addition, Niles' patience grew thin and he was stumped off left-arm spinner Alston Bobb for seven, which took 24 balls.
The task of scoring 16 runs off ten balls proved too much for the usually aggressive Chaim Holder and Omar Marshall and Spartan.
Bishop took three 31 off ten overs.
Earlier, St. Catherine were bowled out for 191 in 47.1 overs after winning the toss.
That total was beefed up by a ninth wicket partnership of 59 in 9.1 overs between Greenidge (19) and Bobb, who topscored with 38 off 57 balls including two boundaries.
New ball bowlers Gill and Omar Marshall, each took three for 31 and 33.
At Pine Basin:
Kyle Corbin laid the foundation for UWI's 265 for seven off 50 overs after they were sent, and soon lost Kevon Beckles without scoring in the fifth ball of the match.
But the in-form Corbin and left-hander Anthony Alleyne added 108 in 23 overs for the second wicket before Alleyne fell to leg-spinner Junior Holder for 25, which came off 64 balls.
Corbin and Kavem Hodge then put on 60 in 9.4 overs for the third wicket before Corbin was dismissed by Holder for 101, which came off 105 balls and included eight boundaries.
Holder also removed Hodge for 29 off 37 balls with the score 181 in the 36th over but UWI consolidated through oldstager Floyd Reifer and Yannick Ottley.
The pair blasted 69 in 7.5 overs for the fifth wicket before left-hander Reifer was dismissed by Raymond Kellman for 34, which took 28 balls and included three boundaries.
Ottley was unbeaten on 45 off 27 balls with two sixes and one four.
Holder, who used the new ball, took three for 50 off nine overs, while Kellman had two for 30 off three overs.
MTW were mesmerised by the quartet of spinners and tumbled to 42 all out in 18.4 overs - the second lowest total of this year's tournament after Foundation were bowled out for 20 by Maple at Trents in Series 4.
At Wildey:
LIME's lively fightback of late continued with another telling display, which resulted in a 110-run win over Police.
Paved by an opening partnership of 80 in 17.4 overs between Justin Brathwaite and Jason Hinds, LIME looked set for a big total when they passed 150 with only two wickets down by the 30th over.
But there was a middle and lower order collapse with the last seven wickets falling for 33 runs in 10.5 overs, and they were bowled out for 207 in 45 overs as left-arm spinner Tyson Small grabbed five wickets.
Left-hander Brathwaite scored 48 off 53 balls with three fours and one six, while Hinds made 34.
After Brathwaite and Hinds fell in the space of three overs, Nekoli Parris and captain Ashley Nurse added 59 in 10.2 overs for the third wicket.
Nurse, just back from India where he represented Barbados Tridents in the Champions League Twenty20, topscored with 50 off 43 balls including two sixes and one four.
Parris was third out for 34, which came off 44 deliveries.
Small, who was the fourth of seven bowlers used, took five for 31 off eight overs, while off-spinner Stefan Gooding picked up two for 22.
Police also collapsed after reaching 50 with two wickets down in the 13th over. The last eight wickets crashed for 46 runs in 21.5 overs and they were bowled out for 97 in 31.3 overs.
Opener Jamar Yearwood hit the topscore of 28 off 42 balls with two fours and two sixes.
Off-spinner Nurse completed a good all-round match by taking three for nine off 5.3 overs. Another off-spinner Daley Hurley, who shared the new ball with pacer Javon Searles, took three for 34 off ten overs and yet another 'finger' spinner, Michael Agard, Jr. two for 15 off seven overs.
At Blenheim 'A':
BCL were routed by left-arm spinners Dane Currency and Karan Bhola, who shared eight wickets to send them tumbling to 65 all out in 33 overs after the home side won the toss.
This was another case of wickets falling like ninepins, the last eight crashing for 23 runs in 18.4 overs.
Currency grabbed five for seven off 10 overs including five maidens after coming on as the fourth and penultimate bowler. Bhola, the last bowler, took three for 14 off nine overs.
Opener Antonio Miller (19) and Devon Goodman (10) were the only double-figure contributors.
Carlton knocked off the target in 17.1 overs with six wickets in hand. Simon Naitram made 18 and Renaldo Antonio D. Holder, a former Grantley Adams and St. John Cultural player, who carries the same first and last names as two other local club players, 17 not out.
ZONE B
At Foursquare Oval:
Pickwick sustained their solid showing with a 55-run win on the D/L method against Foundation.
With the luck of the toss, Pickwick made 192 for four off 41.
It was built around a second wicket stand of 90 in 19.2 overs between Craig St. Hill and captain Kyle Hope. St. Hill topscored with 51 off 92 balls including three boundaries - his second half-century of the tournament - while Hope made 36 off 48 deliveries, also with three fours.
Shai Hope, the younger brother of Kyle, scored 45 not out off 54 balls including two sixes and big-hitter Shane Jones, 24 not out off 18 deliveries with three fours.
Set a revised target of 194 in 41 overs to win, Foundation were bowled out for 139 in 39.3 overs.
Opener Micah Howard made 36, Carlos Maynard, 28, and Joshua Drakes 23.
Aaron Jones, a leg-spinning all-rounder, who was a member of the champion Foundation team in last year's Intermediate division competition, was the main destroyer of his old schoolmates, taking four for 39 off eight overs.
Jones recently returned home Lancashire in England, where he was playing as a beneficiary of the Lord Gavron Scholarship programme, along with his namesake and former schoolmate Jerome Jones, who is now representing Empire.
At Paragon:
Empire rolled over BDFSP by nine wickets after the match was reduced to a 47-over.
BDFSP, who lost the toss, were bowled out for 126 in 33.3 overs with Antonio Greenidge's 35 the topscore.
Leg-spinner Shad Simmons took four for 26 off 6.2 overs, off-spinner Roston Chase, three for 17 off eight overs and left-arm fast bowler Jerome Jones, two for 23 off seven overs.
Jones recently returned home from Lancashire in England where he was playing as a beneficiary of the Lord Gavron Scholarship programme, along with his namesake and former Foundation schoolmate Aaron Jones, who is now turning out for Pickwick.
Empire were then put on course for victory by an opening partnership of 125 in 17.1 overs between Jamal Smith and Alcindo Holder.
Holder blasted 84 off 63 balls with six fours and seven sixes, while Smith made 34 not out.
At Lester Vaughan, Cane Garden:
Barbados Youth beat Wanderers by 19 runs to record their first win.
Set up by an opening stand of 111 in 14.5 overs between Dario belle and Leniko Boucher, Barbados Youth scored 235 for nine off 50 overs after winning the toss.
Belle hit the topscore of 57 off 55 balls with eight fours and two sixes, while Boucher made 43 off 49 deliveries as he counted four boundaries and two sixes.
And after slipping to 150 for six in the 33rd over, Michael Rawlins and Javed Leacock rebuilt the innings with a partnership of 78 in 16 overs.
Rawlins scored 38 off 55 balls with three fours and Leacock was unbeaten on 30 off 53 deliveries, hitting two fours.
Wanderers were bowled out for 216 in 48.3 overs.
Jason Greene made 53 off 89 balls with three fours and one six at No. 5 and Nikolai Charles contributed 41 from 57 balls, hitting five fours.
Off-spinner Nicholas Kirton was the leading wicket-taker with three for 44.
At Trents:
Captain Renaldo "Baby" Parris led by example with a disciplined, unbeaten 81 in a Maple total of 182 for nine off 50 runs after they won the toss and were in some bother on 59 for five in the 26th over.
Parris faced 128 balls and struck 12 threes and five fours. He put on 74 in 16.2 overs for the sixth wicket with Jamar Griffith (22).
Brian King took three for 41 off ten overs.
Wildey were restricted to 151 for nine after tottering on 66 for six in the 31st over.
Mario Albert, a former Maple player, made 50 not out off 77 balls with three fours and one three. He put on 74 in 16.5 overs for the seventh wicket with Khary Pierre, who was run out for 39 off 55 deliveries.
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POINTS (Matches played in brackets):
ZONE A - St. Catherine 28 (7), UWI 16 (6), Yorkshire 16 (6), LIME 12 ((6), Spartan 10 (7), Police 10 (6), MTW 10 (6), Carlton 8 (6), BCL 2 (6).
ZONE B - Pickwick 22 )7), Maple 22 (7), Empire 18 (6), Wildey 12 (6), YMPC 12 (6), Wanderers 8 (6) BDFSP 6 (6), Barbados Youth 6 (6), Foundation 6 (6).
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SERIES 8 - October 19:
ZONE A - Spartan v UWI at Queen's Park; Police v MTW at Weymouth; BCL v Yorkshire at Blenheim 'A'; Carlton v LIME at Desmond Haynes Oval; Carlton v LIME at Desmond Haynes Oval. BYE: St. Catherine.
ZONE B - Empire v Foundation at Bank Hall; YMPC v Pickwick at Beckles Road; BDFSP v Barbados Youth at Paragon; Wildey v Wanderers at Pine/Wildey; BYE: Maple.
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SERIES 9 (Rescheduled) - November 2:
ZONE A - Police v UWI at Weymouth; St. Catherine v BCL at Bayfield; Carlton v MTW at Desmond Haynes Oval; Yorkshire v LIME at Friendship. BYE: Spartan.
ZONE B - Foundation v BDFSP at Church Hill; Wanderers v Empire at Dayrells Road; Wildey v YMPC at SJPP, Pine/Wildey; Barbados Youth v Maple at Lester Vaughan, Cane Garden.
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