TaylorPORT OF SPAIN, CMC:
YOUNG JAMAICA pacer Jerome Taylor, in only his third first-class match, ripped through Trinidad and Tobago's batting line-up with a five-wicket haul and kept Jamaica in charge on the third day of their sixth-round Carib Beer 2003 Cricket Series match at the Queen's Park Oval yesterday.
Trinidad and Tobago, trailing the Jamaicans by 114 runs on first innings, were an unsteady 195 for six at the close with Lendl Simmons not out on 23 and Dave Mohammed on one.
The 18-year-old Taylor rocked the home side by grabbing five for 42 off 14 overs on an eventful day at the famous Test ground.
Jamaican middle-order batsman Gareth Breese (98) and the home side's Andy Jackson (90) narrowly missed hundreds and tricky left-arm spinner Dave Mohammed logged his first five-wicket effort as the Jamaicans piled up 332 all out in response to Trinidad and Tobago's 218.
From an overnight 285 for six, the Jamaicans, unseated as Cup holders when new champions Barbados registered a rapid three-day win over the Leeward Islands early yesterday, stretched their first innings to within half-an-hour of lunch, while adding 47 runs.
Breese and Nehemiah Perry posted a 54-run stand in a seventh-wicket partnership that ended when pacer Theodore Modeste had Perry - chasing a wide delivery -- caught behind by Simmons for a well-played 40, studded with six boundaries.
As Breese was nearing a second first-class century, Darren Powell stuck around for 13 before edging an out-swinger from pacer Marlon Black to wicket-keeper Simmons at 318 for eight, and 19 runs later, Mohammed had Ryan Cunningham (4) also caught behind from an under-edge.
SCOREBOARD
Trinidad & Tobago's 1st innings 218
Jamaica 1st innings
(overnight 285 for 6)
G.Breese lbw Bravo 98
N.Perry c wkp Simmons b Modeste 40
D.Powell c wkp Simmons b Black 13
R.Cunningham c wkp Simmons b Mohammed 4
J.Taylor not out 0
Extras (b9, lb2, w2, nb22) 35
TOTAL (all out - 103.1 overs) 332
Fall of wickets: 1-46, 2-88, 3-103, 4-129, 5-215, 6-245, 7-299, 8-318, 9-332.
Bowling: Black 19-0-90-1 (5nb); Modeste 22-5-74-2 (1w, 11nb); Rampaul 14-3-42-0 (4nb); Bravo 18.1-4-37-2 (1w, 2nb); Mohammed 26-8-63-5; Jan 4-0-15-0.
Trinidad & Tobago 2nd innings:
I.Jan lbw Taylor 7
A.Jackson c wkp Hibbert b Taylor 90
D.Bravo b Taylor 11
D.Ganga b Taylor 39
Z.Ali lbw Bernard 2
L.Roberts lbw Taylor 0
+L.Simmons not out 23
D.Mohammed not out 1
Extras (b10, lb9, nb3) 22
TOTAL (for 6 wickets) 195
Fall of wickets: 1-37, 2-56, 3-154, 4-157, 5-157, 6-166
Bowling: Powell 5-1-30-0 (1nb), Taylor 14-1-42-5 (2nb), Breese 20-5-49-0, Cunningham 16-7-19-0, Perry 6-1-11-0, Bernard 10-2-25-1
Umpires: Glenroy Johnson, Khemraj Barrasingha
Toss: Trinidad & Tobago
