– B/dos win by 151 runs despite Bishoo’s 6-36
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Tino Best lived-up to his surname and upstaged Davendra Bishoo to all but put Barbados into the semi-finals of the WICB Regional One-day competition, following a convincing 151-run victory over Guyana yesterday.
Best collected a career-best five wickets for 24 runs from five overs, as the Barbadians successfully defended a target of 252, when they dismissed the Guyanese for 100 in 21.5 overs in their second Group-B match at Sabina Park.
Ryan Hinds completed a tidy all-round performance with three for 34 from 6.5 overs, and fellow left-arm spinner Sulieman Benn collected two for 19 from six overs.
Leon Johnson hit the top score of 25, but no other Guyanese batsman reached 20, as they again failed to ease concerns about this part of their game.
Hinds formalised the victory, when he trapped tail-ender Keon Joseph for four to seal a victory that put Barbados on top of the group with a maximum eight points.
Barbados face the West Indies High Performance Centre at the Trelawny Multi-Purpose Stadium in their last group match tommorow, at the same time that Guyana meet Leewards at Sabina Park.
Bishoo had undermined the Barbadians with his crafty leg spin, also taking a career best of six for 36 from his full allotment of 10 overs.
But Jonathan Carter struck two fours and four sixes to lead the way with 60 from 63 balls, and Dale Richards hit seven fours in 56 from 59 balls to anchor Barbados to 251 all out in 49.3 overs.
Hinds scored 39 from 49 balls, and put on 93 for the second wicket with Richards, and Kirk Edwards made 33 from 67 balls in a stand of 101 for the fourth wicket with Carter.
Gaining appreciable bounce from the typically hard, true pitch, Best then rocked Guyana in a four-over opening spell, when he had Richard Ramdeen caught at first slip for a duck, bowled Assad Fudadin for one, had Narsingh Deonarine caught behind for a duck, and rounded it off when Guyana captain Ramnaresh Sarwan was caught at third man for one.
Guyana had sunk to six for four in the fifth over, and there was no heroic recovery, despite the presence of Shivnarine Chanderpaul in their side.
Hinds took care of the durable left-hander, when he had him caught at backward square leg for a run-a-ball 18 to leave Guyana 39 for five.
Earlier, Barbados suffered an early setback, when opener Kraigg Brathwaite was lbw to Esuan Crandon for eight.
Barbados were 23 for one, but Hinds joined Richards, and they laid a platform with their partnership. Richards reached 50 from 53 balls with a deuce through extra cover before Fudadin bowled left-hander Hinds in the 20th over.
Four balls later, Richards was caught behind off Bishoo essaying a cut to leave the Barbadians 120 for three.
Carter then formed a fruitful partnership with Edwards and consolidated Barbados’ position. He reached his 50 when he turned Sarwan into the leg-side for a single before he was caught at backward point off Bishoo.
Barbados were 221 for three, and Bishoo snared four of the last six wickets to transform the complexion of the game.
The Barbadians lost their last seven wickets for 30 runs in the space of 54 balls, but Best, typically, soon turned things upside down.
