BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Liam Sebastien marked his return from injury with tidy off-spin bowling that gave Windward Islands a slight edge over Barbados in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.
The Windwards captain ended with three wickets for 50 runs from 28 overs, as Barbados, sent in to bat, were kept on a tight leash, and limped to 201 for four in their first innings at the close on the opening day of their fifth round match.
Sebastien had missed his side’s previous match against Trinidad & Tobago with a leg injury, but he gave firm evidence that the one-week break in the tournament, as well as his intimate knowledge of the opposition was beneficial to him.
The stocky Sebastien has played the last three seasons of club matches in the island for reigning champions University of the West Indies, yet most of the Barbadian top-order batsmen failed to conquer him, and there was an unaccustomed lack of urgency about their rate of scoring on a hard, true Kensington Oval pitch under sunny skies.
