Permaul, Drakes dominate day one for Weeks XI

(Sportsmax) - Dominic Drakes and Veerasammy Permaul each took three wickets as Weekes’ XI bowled Headley XI out for 177 on Wednesday’s opening day of the final match in the Headley Weekes Tri-Series at Coolidge Cricket Ground in Antigua. However, Headley XI’s bowlers have struck back having

Weekes XI at 61-3 at stumps still trailing by 116 runs.

Drakes dismissed three of the five top order batsmen as Headley XI got off to a terrible start and were reduced to 74-6. Only opener Kieran Powell with 23 managed to get into double figures.

Kavem Hodge and Ackeem Jordan held the Weekes’ bowlers at bay with a partner- ship of 71 but then Jordan became Permaul’s 600th first-class wicket when he was caught behind for 37. Kevin Sinclair soon after ended Hodge’s vigil for 67 and Permaul cleaned up the tail dismissing Chaim-Alexis Holder and Marquino Mindley for three and seven, respectively. tees and Cotton Tree Die Hard also received one box of red cricket balls each, Cold Fusion Cricket Club thirteen color uniforms while RHCCCC received fifteen white cricket shirts, one pair of junior batting pads, one pair of wicketkeeping gloves and a set of stumps and bails. The Essequibo Cricket Board also benefitted along with the Town of Lethem and youth coach, Travis Persaud with one box of red balls.

Drakes ended with figures of 3-17 while Permaul took 3-18.

In reply, Weekes’ XI lost Zachary McCaskie to Marquino Mindley for two but Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Raymon Reifer added 48 for the second wicket before Holder struck, dismissing Chanderpaul for 12 and 11 runs later, got Reifer for 34 as Weekes XI slipped to 61-3.

Holder has so far taken 2-2 while Mindley has 1-17.

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2-35, 3-46, 4-56, 5-62, 6-74, 7-145, 8-167, 9-169, 10-177.

Reifer 13-4-36-1, Smith 6-1-26-0, Drakes 12-5-17-3, McAlister 7-2-23-1, Premaul 14.2-8-16-3, Sinclair 13-0-47-1.

(3 wkts, 22 overs) 61

1-2, 2-50, 3-61.

To bat: K Carty, D Drakes, J McAlister, V Permaul, K Sinclair, N Smith, +D Thomas,

Jordan 6-2-14-0 (nb3), Mindley 4-0-17-1 (nb2), Greaves 5-2-13-0, Phillip 4-0-14-0, Holder 3-1-2-2.

Position: Team Weekes trail by 116 runs with seven wickets intact.

Toss: Team Headley.

Umpires: G Brathwaite, L Reifer.