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GEORGETOWN, CANA:

HALF-CENTURIES by Dwayne Bravo and Denzil James helped Trinidad & Tobago mount a competitive first innings total against Jamaica at the Demerara Club on the opening day of their top-of-the-table final round West Indies youth cricket match yesterday.

Bravo top-scored with 88 and James hit 67 to help Trinidad & Tobago gather 266 in their first innings. In reply, Jamaica reached seven without loss off three overs.

Trinidad & Tobago's eventual total however, represented a lower-order collapse effected by fast bowler Dwight Washington, who ended with four for 64 after Bravo and James had given their team a firm foundation.

Trinidad & Tobago, choosing to bat on a hard, true pitch under sunny skies, enjoyed a good morning period in which they reached 108 for two.

Opening batsman Satesh Naidoo was caught at square cover off Joewayne Robinson and Lendl Simmons was caught at mid-on off off-spin bowler Wayne Simpson to be the only two Trinidad & Tobago victims before the interval.

Bravo and James carried their third-wicket partnership to 88 in even time before the top-scorer, who looked well set to register his first century, again fell short when he drove Robinson to mid-on.

Bravo, who also missed scoring a century against Windward Islands at Diamond when he was run out for 96, slammed eight fours and two sixes, one a miscued hook off Washington and the other over long-on off Danza Hyatt.

Nicholas Ramjass, playing his first match, never looked settled and was soon lbw to Robinson, but the innings again gathered momentum with James, growing in confidence, sharing a 45-run, fifth-wicket stand with captain Alan Mahabir.

The Trinidad & Tobago captain contributed a quickfire 33 with five fours, but once James was caught behind off Washington after batting 3 1/4 hours to hit three fours off 159 balls, the Trinidad and Tobago innings went into decline with the last five wickets going down for 43 runs.

SCOREBOARD

Trinidad & Tobago 1st Innings

S.Naidoo c Ingram b Robinson 9

D.Bravo c (sub) Findlay b Robinson 88

L.Simmons c Pagon b Simpson 19

D.James c wkp Stewart b Washington 67

N.Ramjass lbw Robinson 8

A.Mahabir c (sub) Findlay b Simpson 33

G.Mohammed c Hyatt b Washington 5

R.Rampaul c wkp Stewart b Washington 20

R.Kelly c wkp Stewart b Washington 5

I.Khan not out 1

A.Jaggernauth run out 1

Extras (lb4, nb5, w1) 10

TOTAL (all out - 91.4 overs) 266

Fall of wickets: 1-24 2-67 3-155 4-178 5-223 6-253 7-258 8-259 9-264.

Bowling: Robinson 15-2-41-3 (2nb); Washington 22-6-64-4 (1w); Simpson 30.4-6-68-2 (3nb); Ingram 17-1-65-0; Hyatt 7-1-24-0.

Jamaica 1st Innings:

D Pagon not out 5

G Buchanan not out 1

Extras (1b) 1

TOTAL (for no wicket - 3 overs) 7

Bowling: Rampaul 2-0-5-0; Kelly 1-0-1-0.

Toss: Trinidad & Tobago

Umpires: E.Nicholls, P.Giddings

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