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Miller snares four to send T&T plunging (Carib Beer Challenge Final - Day 3)

CMC | 26/04/08

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Six wickets, four to Nikita Miller, left Trinidad & Tobago teetering on the brink of defeat at lunch on the third day in the Carib Beer Challenge Final against Jamaica on Saturday at Sabina Park.

At the interval, T&T, trailing by 172 runs on first innings, subsided to 145 for six in their second innings with Richard Kelly not out on 32 and Dave Mohammed not out on six.

Left-arm spin bowler Miller, whose five wickets wrecked the T&T first innings, put the visitors in a spin again for the second time in the match before the interval with four wickets for 58 runs from 19 overs.

Miller removed Adrian Barath, Darren Bravo, Kieron Pollard, and Denesh Ramdin, after T&T resumed from their overnight total of 43 without loss.

Daren Powell made the breakthrough for Jamaica, when Daren Ganga was bowled for 27 playing an uncharacteristic swipe at a full-length delivery.

Three overs later, Darren Bravo was caught at silly point off bat-pad playing defensively forward to hand Miller his first scalp and leave T&T on 51 for two.

Lendl Simmons came to the wicket and spent 40 minutes with Adrian Barath. They stemmed the fall of wickets, but they were dismissed within five balls of each other.

Barath was caught at slip off Miller for 33, and Simmons was palpably adjudged lbw to Jerome Taylor to set T&T back on 90 for four.

Kieron Pollard's first scoring stroke had been a straight six off Miller and he also struck his third ball for a boundary over cover.

He again punished Miller with another straight six in the bowler's 16th over before the bowler gained his revenge, when Pollard was caught inside the long-on boundary for 20 essaying another lofted straight drive.

Denesh Ramdin appeared at his regular No.6 position, and showed no ill-effects from the blow to his face that prevented him from taking his rightful place behind the stumps when Jamaica batted.

He spent just over half-hour at the crease before he gifted his wicket with a loose drive at a flighted ball from Miller and was caught at slip for six in the last 15 minutes before the interval.

The Carib Beer Challenge Final is the ceremonial end to the West Indies first-class season, and features the teams that finish in the top two positions from the Carib Beer Cup league competition.