Bonner leads CCC fightback

CAVE HILL, Barbados (CMC): Nkrumah Bonner and Ryan Austin shared four wickets to lead a fightback for Combined Campuses & Colleges (CCC), after Windward Islands collected first innings points in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.

Leg-spinner Bonner captured two wickets for 14 runs from five overs and off-spinner Austin took two for 52 from 15 overs, as Windward Islands, replying to CCC's first innings total of 131, reached 145 for seven at the close on the opening day of their first round match at the Three Ws Oval.

Keddy Lesporis has so far hit the top score of 41 for Windwards, Andre Fletcher has supported with 30 and Johnson Charles made 28.

Windwards had started the match brilliantly, when they won the toss, chose to field and dismissed CCC about 25 minutes before tea.

Bonner led the way for CCC with 27 and Floyd Reifer got 24, but no other CCC batsman passed 20.

Liam Sebastien, leading the Windwards in the absence of West Indies captain Darren Sammy, was the most successful bowler for the visitors, with three for 17 from 7.5 overs.

Kenroy Peters took two for 21 from 11 overs and Kerron Cottoy bagged two for 30 from 10 overs.

Earlier, CCC went to lunch in trouble on 73 for five and never really recovered from their shaky start. They were 49 for one at one stage before three wickets fell on the same total in the space of 12 deliveries to plunge them into early desperation.

Reifer drawing on his years of experience, and Bonner tried to repair the damage with a stand of 38 for the sixth wicket, but the CCC lost their last five scalps for 20 runs in 75 balls.

SCOREBOARD

CCC 1st Innings

O. Phillips lbw b Cottoy 19R. Currency c wkpr James b Peters 8K. Ottley c Cottoy bSebastien 14+K. Corbin cSebastien b Cottoy 0R. Reifer c Charles b Mathurin 9F. Reifer lbw b Pascal 24N. Bonner lbw b Matthew 27K. McClean c Cottoy bSebastien 8R. Austin c wkpr James b Peters 2G. Moore c Pascal bSebastien 8K. Kantasingh not out 0Extras (b1, lb9, nb2) 12TOTAL (all out, 50.5 overs) 131

Fall of wickets: 1-16, 2-49, 3-49, 4-49, 5-73, 6-112, 7-112, 8-122, 9-131

Bowling: Pascal 8-0-18-1 (nb2); Peters 11-4-21-2; Matthew 10-5-22-1; Cottoy 10-1-30-2;Sebastien 7.5-3-17-3; Mathurin 4-0-13-1

WINDWARD ISLANDS 1st Innings

T. Theophile c Currency b McClean 3J. Charles c Currency b Austin 28A. Fletcher b Kantasingh 30K. Lesporis lbw b Bonner 41L. Sebastien b Austin 17+L. James run out 12G. Mathurin lbw b Bonner 6M. Matthew not out 0K. Peters not out 0Extras (lb3, w1, nb4) 8TOTAL (7 wkts, 39 overs) 145

K. Cottoy, N. Pascal to bat

Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-55, 3-77, 4-106, 5-136, 6-145, 7-145

Bowling: Moore 5-1-16-0 (w1); McClean 3-0-19-1; Kantasingh 11-1-41-1; Austin 15-3-52-2 (nb4); Bonner 5-2-14-2

Position: Windward Islands lead by 14 runs with three first innings wickets standing

Toss: Windward Islands

Umpires: G. Brathwaite, P. Nero

Matchreferee: C. Carter

Reserve umpire: J. Blades