It took Barbados just 62 minutes and 15.1 overs to complete a comprehensive victory over the Leeward Islands by an innings and seven runs at Kensington Oval yesterday.
Sulieman Benn completed a five-wicket haul and finished with match figures of nine for 70 that earned him the Man-Of-The-Match award.
Resuming on 121 for five, still 58 adrift of the first innings deficit of 179, Leewards collapsed after an initial counterattack and slumped to 172 all out off the first delivery following the first water break.
Leewards scored 138 in their first innings to which Barbados replied with 317 all out on the second day.
Yesterday there was early optimism the Leewards would extend their resistance into the afternoon session when overnight pair Hayden Walsh Jr and Devon Thomas batted positively in a sixth-wicket partnership that started on the second day when left-arm spinner Benn sent back Leewards captain Gavin Williams and Jason Peters with consecutive deliveries to leave the visitors 92 for five.
Resuming on 14, Walsh was the main aggressor, driving square for boundaries and playing the straight drive with aplomb.
Twenty of the 24 runs he added came in boundaries but the 77-run stand which spanned 71 minutes ended when he turned a ball to Kyle Hope at square-leg off the bowling of medium fast bowler Christopher Jordan.
Fifty of the runs scored by the pair came in boundaries, 11 of them fours, seven of which were struck by Walsh whose 38 came off 66 balls.
The dismissal of Walsh triggered a terminal slide in which the last five wickets tumbled for only three runs just prior to and immediately after the refreshment break.
Gavin Tonge failed to score, edging a delivery of appreciable bounce from Benn to Jordan at first slip as Leewards slumped to 170 for seven.
Without addition, Thomas drove in the air to Omar Phillips at mid-off, who gleefully took the catch to give Jordan his second wicket of the morning.
Thomas counted five fours and two sixes in a topscore of 47 made off 95 deliveries in 102 minutes.
Benn deceived Justin Athanaze in flight for wicketkeeper Shane Dowrich to effect the stumping, and immediately after the water break Jordan dismantled the stumps of Lionel Baker with a superb yorker to start the celebrations in the Barbados camp.
Jordan finished with four for 41 in his final outing before leaving for England where he will represent Surrey.
Barbados moved to 36 points ahead of their final match against the Windward Islands in Grenada starting on Friday.
