Trinidad and Tobago Red Force held the advantage over Barbados Pride at the end of the first day of their four day match at Kensington Oval on Wednesday.

At the close of play the Red Force were 182 for four wickets, a lead of 86 runs.

Openers Cephas Cooper (32) and Kamil Pooran (50) posted 104 for the first wicket before Cooper was bowled by Roach.

Amir Jangoo and Yannick Cariah are unbeaten on 37 and 19 respectively.  Jason Holder dismissed two batsmen for 35 runs. 

Earlier Barbados Pride was bowled out for 86 after the Red Force won the toss and elected to field. The Pride lost their first wicket with the score on seven when the captain and opening batsman Kraigg Brathwaite and opening batsman was bowled by medium pacer Anderson Phillip for five.

Three runs later the in-form batsman Jonathan Drakes was bowled by Jayden Seales for three. Opener Zachary McCaskie (11) and Roston Chase (11) added 25 runs for the fourth wicket until McCaskie was caught at second slip off seamer Joshua James to leave the Pride reeling at 35 for four wickets.

Barbados’ woes continued when Chase was dismissed with no addition to the score.The Pride’s batsmen wickets continue to fall like ripe mangoes in season; and they were bowled out for their lowest total of the season. Kemar Roach, batting at number nine, top-scored with 21, and Shai Hope was run-out for 16. Phillip captured four wickets for 36 runs, and Seales took two for 32.

Article by David Harris

Barbados Pride defeated the Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC) on the third day of the fourth round match in Cricket West Indies Four Day Championships at Kensington Oval on Friday afternoon. 

Chasing a paltry 28 runs to record their third successive victory for the Championship; Barbados scored the runs without losing a wicket; the openers Kraigg Brathwalte and Zachary McCaskie were unbeaten on 15 and 13 respectively. 
CCC started the day trailing Barbados by 162 runs on two runs for one wicket, and were dismissed for 193 runs. 

Man of the Match Roston Chase and left –arm spinner Joel Warrican spun a weave around the CCC batsmen. 

Warrican captured five wickets for 59 runs and Chase picked up two wickets 69 runs. 

CCC lost nine wickets for 132 runs but Akeem Jordan (50) and Chemar Holder who was unbeaten on 20 added 61 runs for the tenth wicket. 

Kamil Pooran made 36, Shaqkere Parris got 35. 

On Thursday (the second day of the match) Barbados scored 428 in reply to CCC’s total of 262. 

Roston Chase made a sublime 122 and Kevin Wickham contributed a stylish 95; medium pacer Kalvin Marcus took three wickets. 

Barbados won the match with a day to spare. 

With the 21st anniversary of the National Senior Games being commemorated this year, Minister of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs, Kirk Humphrey, is urging more support from Barbadians for this event.

He made this appeal yesterday while addressing a press conference at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre, Two Mile Hill, St, Michael, to launch the Games. 

While he praised the efforts of the seniors, he lamented that the Games had not been sufficiently supported, saying: “I think we have some of the most elite athletes, the best athletes, and senior athletes in the region, surely. I think that we haven’t been able to get the crowds to support them the way that they should be supported.

“My view is that the senior athletes put a lot of time and effort into training and preparing themselves for the Games and it is very difficult, even when you are very, very young, to get into the kind of shape that these athletes are in, as they get older.”

Minister Humphrey also stated that government had “to make it easier for people to be healthy/active” and he expressed the view that “Healthy and Active Ageing”, which has been the theme of the Ministry for a long time, now needed to be manifested.

Noting that people should come out and watch the competitive games because they are “extremely exciting”, he stressed the event would draw more attention and interest from young people if they came out and competed as well.

“I dare the average Barbadian who is not training the way these athletes train to come out and try to compete with some of these athletes because it is really intense,” he challenged.

The 2025 Games will comprise both highly competitive and recreational games, which will be held in different months. Whit Monday, June 9, will see the culmination of the track and field activities. These will be held on just one day as opposed to two. 

Explaining that, that discussion with athletes was responsible for this decision, Mr. Humphrey added that it would allow persons to have more time with their families and more participation by the public.  In September, during the Month of the Elderly, there will be other activities such as archery and dominoes. 

Meanwhile, it was disclosed that the Ministry has requested that the Senior Games teams/committees spend some time in the communities, over the next few months, in the lead up to the Games on Whit Monday, June 9. 

This year, the public can also look forward to a major health fair at the Wildey Gymnasium that will seek to attract persons to the Games and its various activities. 

Additionally, the Ministry will be working with all the parish ambassadors and organising committees as they undertake their We Gatherin’ events, to have the Games associated with parishes to draw more attention to them. (PR/GIS)