Richard Bryan, Gleaner Writer
ANDRE DWYER
MANDEVILLE:
RAIN PREVENTED defending champions Manchester from completing an outright result against the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) at Kirkvine on Sunday. Batting a second time, the JDF were 82 for 7, still 27 runs short of avoiding an innings defeat.
Manchester made 225 for nine declared to which JDF replied with 116 in 64 overs in the first innings. In that first effort, Damion Grey batted undefeated for 55, facing 181 deliveries in a three-hour stay at the crease.
The army men owe the one point achieved from the game to Andel Daley (21 not out) and Omar Ellington (2 not out), who held up Manchester's charge to victory after batting unscathed for 20 overs while compiling just 20 runs, when the offer of bad light was taken and subsequent showers ended the match an hour earlier.
BRIGHT SPARK
The bright spark for Manchester was Andre Dwyer who followed up his four-wicket haul in the first innings to take another three (all achieved in one over), bringing his season's tally to 38 wickets.
The game itself ended on a sour note after Manchester's captain Matthew Sinclair showed dissent, flinging his arm and uttering something to umpire Norman Malcolm after a vigorous appeal for a bat-pad catch off the bowling of Dwyer was denied.
The incident did not stop there based on Sinclair's aggrieved gesticulation to Malcolm, as the two men walked towards the pavillion.
