Combined?Campuses and Colleges (CCC) suffered a second, humiliating capitulation against arch-rivals Barbados yesterday to be crushed by an innings and 185 runs with a day and a half to spare in their third round Regional Four-Day Championship cricket match at the 3Ws Oval.
CCC, dismissed for a paltry 109 in their first innings after winning the toss and batting, sank to even lower depths in their second turn at the crease, surrendering for a meagre 78 in 39.4 overs.
The Barbados team exacted sweet revenge for defeats at the hands of their locally-based opponents in the recent Caribbean T20 tournament and the Super50 match at the same venue last Sunday.
Barbados, already with a sizeable first innings advantage of 256 runs at the start of yesterday’s play, extended their innings by a further two overs from which seven runs were added before last man Miguel Cummins, not offering a shot to a Kevin McClean delivery, was adjudged LBW with the total on 372.
Wicketkeeper Shane Dowrich was left not out 56.
First innings destroyer Christopher Jordan (2-15) again started the rout when he removed Shacaya Thomas via a catch off the outside edge for the second time in the match.
Opener Anthony Alleyne and CCC skipper Kyle Corbin posted 26 unconvincing runs for the next wicket in the face of accurate, aggressive bowling from the three-pronged pace attack of Jordan, Cummins (2-11) and Jason Holder (3-22).
Alleyne tamely slapped a ball of no particular merit into Jonathan Carter’s lap at point and was quickly followed back to the pavilion by wicketkeeper Chadwick Walton, whose intended off-drive ended up in the hands of Jordan at second slip to give Holder wickets in successive overs.
Cummins, who was wicketless in the first innings and who bowled without luck in the early part of his spell yesterday, benefited from Corbin’s failure to keep his cut shot along the ground for Rashidi Boucher to grasp a straightforward catch, also at the point position.
Without addition to the score, Barbados captain Kirk Edwards moved himself into a short midwicket position and probably could not believe his good fortune when Raymond Reifer duly pushed Cummins’ next delivery directly into his hands.
CCC were now 35 for five and added just one more run before going to lunch with half the side down.
On resumption, veteran CCC player-coach Floyd Reifer and fellow Barbadian Nekoli Parris were quickly despatched.
Reifer, offering no shot to Holder, was given LBW and Parris turned an off- break from Ashley Nurse (3-18) to Kraigg Brathwaite at leg-slip to give the off-spinner the first of three wickets.
The inevitable defeat was delayed by about an hour while bowlers McClean and Akeem Dewar engaged in the highest partnership of the innings, 39 for the eighth wicket, before Jordan, who replaced Holder at the southern end, had the latter caught behind for the top score of 22.
McClean perished two runs later, caught by Jordan off Nurse, who wrapped up the innings, trapping last man Ryan Austin LBW without scoring.
Jordan, who finished with match figures of nine for 58, was named Man of The Match, while the win was Barbados’ second outright result in succession adding to the 93-run conquest of Guyana in the previous round. CCC slumped to a second defeat in as many matches.
