Friday February 02, 2018
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Carter, Chase take down Hampshire as... Exclusive: Blatter... From page 31 the 47th over, and follow up their convincing win over Trinidad and Tobago Red Force on Tuesday’s opening day. Left-hander Jonathan Carter, adjudged Man-of-theMatch, was at the forefront of the run chase, stroking a classy unbeaten 92 while Chase was also in fine nick with an unbeaten 87. The pair put on 168 in an unbroken fourth wicket stand which pulled Pride around for the discomfort of 63 for three in the 16th over. Sent in earlier, Hampshire rallied from 29 for three in the 14th over to reach 227 for seven off their 50 overs, with Zimbabwean Sean Ervine topscoring with 63, Joe Weatherley getting 51 and Lewis McManus, 47. Fast bowler Miguel
Cummins extended his excellent wicket-taking form with three for 27 from eight overs. Hampshire had a less than ideal start, losing Calvin Dickinson (9), Thomas Alsop (12) and James Adams (3) cheaply inside the first 15 overs.However, Ervine and Weatherley combined in a 112-run, fourth wicket parntership to prop up the innings and push the visitors towards a competitive total. Ervine struck five fours and a pair of sixes in a positive 68ball knock while Weatherly faced 78 balls and belted two sixes. Pride clawed their way back into the contest when they removed both in successive overs. Ervine pushed a return catch back to off-spinner Chase while Weatherley cut veteran left-arm spinner Sulieman Benn to Chase at
point. Tottering again on 147 for five at the end of the 37th, Hampshire were revived by McManus and Bradley Taylor (20) who put on a valuable 48 for the sixth wicket. McManus struck three fours and sixes in an entertaining 42-ball innings before becoming one of two wickets to fall to Cummins in successive overs late on. Pride then suffered an early setback in their run chase when Kevin Stoute nicked a catch behind off seamer Bradley Wheal, to fall for two with five on the board in the second over. Captain Kraigg Brathwaite added 33 with Shai Hope (34) but failed for the second straight innings, bowled middle stump by former West Indies speedster Fidel Edwards for 12 in the 10th over.And for the sec-
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ond successive innings, Hope got a start but failed to carry on and was caught at cover in the 16th over, driving left-arm seamer Christopher Wood. However, Carter arrived to put any linger doubts about the result to rest, dominating the Hampshire attack in an innings which required 113 balls and contained seven fours. Playing with quiet assurance, the out-of-favour Windies limited overs batsman brought up his half-century off 67 balls with three fours in the 30th over, but ran out of time with three figures beckoning. Chase, meanwhile, was no less authoritative, counting seven fours and two sixes in a 93-ball innings. Pride will chase their third straight win when they take on Windward Islands Volcanoes in their third match at Kensington Oval, tomorrow. Red Force beat Marooners by nine wickets – Group A - Bridgetown, Barbados, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago Red Force defeated Combined Campuses and Colleges Marooners by nine wickets in the sixth match of the Regional Super50 at Kensington Oval here yesterday.Scores: Marooners 101 off 25.4 overs (Ryan Hinds 32; Sunil Narine 5-12, Sheldon Cottrell 3-40, Khary Pierre 2-15). Red Force 102 for one off 11.1 overs (Evin Lewis 70 not out).
ESPN, Up... From page 35 spot kicks.The closeness of matches continued throughout the night as Young Ballers and Jetty Ballers also could not muster a goal in regulation time, but latter won 1-0 on penalty kicks. Match time goals returned when Collin McCalmont 6th minute goal led Ballers Empire to a 1-0 victory over Mocha while Up Like-Seven were on top against Nismes Ballers, winning 3-0 due to Terry O’Brian (18th) and Anthony Darlington (9th) efforts.Police ‘B’ failed to awaken Dream Team from their sanctuary and were hammered 0-4. Dellon John (19th) and Kester Dorris (20th) ensured there was no need for spot kicks. Additionally, both Asylum Youths and Patentia Money Team won 2-0 on sudden death penalty kicks against Agricola and Bagotville after both of their matches ended in goalless stalemates.The tournament which is being run in collaboration with Colours Boutique will continue tonight at the same venue with teams looking to seal their passage to the knock-out phase.
From page 31 an appeal in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the suspension. CAS ruled that Blatter had authorized payments to Michel Platini, then the European football boss, worth over $2 million that amounted to “undue gifts” and therefore violated FIFA’s code of ethics. Blatter had resigned in June 2015 after several dozen football officials, including FIFA executive committee members and former members, had been indicted in the United States on graft charges, along with two sports marketing firms. The former FIFA president was not among those indicted, but became embroiled in scandal when he was banned from all football-related activity the following December by FIFA’s Ethics Committee along with Platini. The men were banned, initially for eight years, over a payment of 2 million Swiss francs ($1.98 million) that FIFA made to Platini in 2011, with Blatter’s approval, for work done a decade earlier. The bans were reduced to six years by FIFA’s appeals committee in February 2016. Blatter, who has denied all charges against him, had compared the FIFA Ethics Committee investigation to “the inquisition”. In 2015 Swiss prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into Blatter on suspicion of criminal mismanagement and misappropriation but no charges have yet been brought. The man who headed FIFA from 1998 to 2015 says he intends to attend June’s World Cup in Russia after a personal invitation from Russian President Vladimir Putin.