Cricket : Leewards Among Winners In First Round

Colin Archibald and Shelton Forbes

All the matches in the first round of the West Indies Cricket Board’s four-day championship ended with decisive results, including a significant victory for the Leewards Hurricanes over the young West Indies Academy team.

**Regional Day Two Roundup**

**Barbados vs. Guyana**
Barbados: 346
Guyana: 382 for 9 declared
Barbados: 112
Looknauth: 5 for 23

Guyana needed 77 runs for victory and reached 78 for no loss, winning by 10 wickets.

**Leewards vs. West Indies Academy**
Leewards: 358
West Indies Academy: 145
Leewards: 289 for 9 declared

Jewel Andrew, along with Nevisians Shelton Forbes and Colin Archibald, all scored half-centuries. The West Indies Academy needed 503 runs for an unlikely victory but were bowled out for exactly 100.
Walsh took 5 wickets and Cornwall took 4.
Leewards won by 402 runs.

**Jamaica vs. Windwards**
Jamaica: 337
Windwards: 195
Jamaica: 277 for 7 declared

Windwards needed 420 runs for victory but were all out for 241.
Redwood claimed 7 wickets for 72 runs.
Jamaica won by 178 runs.

**Trinidad & Tobago vs. CCC**
Trinidad & Tobago: 504 for 6 declared
Khary Pierre: 7 for 40

Trinidad & Tobago won by an innings and 75 runs.

**Next Round of Matches Scheduled for Wednesday, February 5th:**
– Guyana vs. CCC in Guyana
– Leewards vs. Jamaica in Antigua
– Barbados vs. West Indies Academy in Barbados
– Trinidad & Tobago vs. Windwards in St. Vincent

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