Photo Caption: Montcin Hodge in action, (sourced photo)
By: Tito Chapman
Impressive batting and bowling performances earned the Leeward Islands Hurricanes a massive victory.
They crushed Trinidad and Tobago Red Force by 245 runs in their West Indies Championship encounter on Monday at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy.
Hurricanes amassed 425 and 168-6 declared against the Red Force, 252 and 96.
Hodge, Cornwall and Louis starred in the Hurricanes first innings with 158, 65 and 51 respectively as their team reached a massive 425.
Red Force in their turn at the crease were bowled out for 252 with Solozano top scoring with 80. Cornwall bagged 4 wickets.
With a lead of 173, Leewards batting a second time declared at 168-6. Opening batsman, Montcin Hodge was left not out with 77.
Set a target of 342 to win, the Red Force were undone by the combination of Alzarri Joseph, 4-22, and Rahkeem Cornwall, 4-29. Sheeno Berridge bagged 2-19 as Trinidad were bowled out for 96.
Six T&T batsmen, Skipper Denesh Ramdin, Yannic Cariah, Joshua da Silva, Imran Khan, Daniel St Clair, and Bryan Charles, who was left not out, all ended their innings without scoring.
