A five-wicket haul from 19-year-old Keemo Paul and an eye-catching half-century from Chandrapaul Hemraj wrestled control in Guyana’s favour at the end of the second day of their regional four-day clash against the Barbados Tridents at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence. Jaguars ended the second day on 180 – 4, still trailing by 114 runs with plenty batting to come. Openers Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Hemraj, in response to Tridents’ first innings score of 294 all out, were watchful early on with the latter finding the occasional boundary to begin a healthy Jaguars response.
Hemraj, a naturally aggressive batsman, grew in confidence and whipped the nagging medium pace of Justin Greaves off his pads for a monstrous maximum to push his tally to 30. The partnership grew while the talented 24–year-old left-hander launched off-spinner Ashley Nurse into the stands to carry Jaguars past the 50-run mark at the end of 17th over. He continued to coast and punched Nurse through the covers for two fours while clipping him off his pads for another boundary to race to his 50.
He seemed intent on reaching his maiden ton and caressed a delivery from Nurse behind point for another boundary which came before, perhaps, the shot of the day; a short arm jab through mid-wicket for another boundary.