 Yeah, back on the Sportsman zone time now for some updates on the cricket West Indies four day championship. We have a result at Sabina Park where Gerard Marcily is on location. Let's join him for a report. So the first result of the West Indies Championship unsurprisingly coming from Sabina Park where Jamaica Scorpions took on the win with Islands Volcanoes. Jamaica Scorpions would have started today 72 for four. Still 106 runs behind the win with Islands Volcanoes first in the score of 341. They added 162 runs but ended up losing by nine wickets in the end. It was a really good day though. Romain Morris top scored with 68 for the Jamaica Scorpions to add to his 35 in the first innings. He really looked like the best batsman out there full of intent full of confidence and of course he was rewarded with his 68 which would have pushed Jamaica Scorpions over the line and allowed them to get the win with Islands Volcanoes to bat again. There was a really good bowling performance from Darius Martin. Darius was really good, very economical and he was very disciplined. Four for 85. He finished with those figures for the match and he was really well rewarded in that second innings. It was a interestingly enough day for Jamaica Scorpions. This is now their 13th consecutive winless match in all formats of West Indies of regional cricket and they have a lot of work to do of course coming up to the next game against Barbados Pride that will be played here next Wednesday but three win with Islands Volcanoes batsmen would have gotten half centuries here while only one scorpion batsman would have gotten a half century. A lot for them to work on in the batting department. I have here Jermaine Blackwood, the captain of Jamaica Scorpions. Let's hear a little bit about what needs to be worked on from him. Jermaine, not the result you would have wanted, not the start you would have wanted to this four day tournament but what went wrong for this Jamaica Scorpions team? I think the batting let us down in both innings. I think if we score anywhere over 250 in the first things I think it would have been a much better, a much different result because now we have some quality bowlers that we could get the job done in the bowling department but I think in the batting I think it's just shot selection. I think we just have to choose the right ball that we want to score off and you know just be more clear I don't want to approach things in the batting and just mind the situation after game as well. Jermaine Morris, he was really confident of course he would have been in position where it looked as if you wouldn't be able to make the Volcano's bat again but he just showed intent. He was very confident, played his natural game and was able to get a half century in the second innings. Yeah I'm very happy, very pleased with my performance in both innings. You know I know from the pre-season he have been batting extremely well you know and the same way he approached the game in the same way he batted right through out so we just give him that freedom to just go there and express himself in any situation because he's a positive player and once he get off you know he can be very good for us. It's not going to happen at the time but you know we have to just have to back him and just give him that support as a captain and as the coaching staff you know we we we believe to give players freedom to go there and express themselves so that is what we're doing with Morris. Yeah well obviously the Jamaican fans and Westinian fans would know that you have Bonner yourself and McKinsey who all have test experience not able to fire in this game what do you have to do though to ensure that that doesn't happen a second time around and you can get your batting order in check. I mean it's just the first game so I won't come to out and any of the battles we just have to regroup and come back again we know that you know we play a test cricket but as soon as the end of the day it's still quick you have to come and play so we still have to go out there and score runs and that is our job and that is our duty and we just have to find a way to get it done. Yeah you have Barbados pride in it so of course Craig Bartholid in that side they've been they've been really good you played them here but do you think it would be of course it would be a tough game but do you think you can get a win in that one? Yeah for sure I think I think we're playing CCC next year combined on campuses but I'm just looking forward to the next challenge next week but again we always have the bowlers to get us 20 wickets so it's just us as batters have to just come and put the roads runs on the board and let the bowlers come and do their thing. We're looking forward to seeing you that. Thank you. Thank you so much Jermaine and time now to hear from Kimani Melyas who would have been really instrumental. His first win as a win with the Islands Volcanoes captain in a four-day format and yeah he was really aggressive in the field with his field placements with his bowling changes and I thought it was tremendous we saw a lot of Denver today some off-break bowling that wasn't really prevalent on the first day but it would prove to be very productive it proved to be efficient and he got the results that he wanted. Kimani let's have a chat with you. You must be very happy with that result. Definitely always good to start off the tournament on a positive note. The guys must be commanded for the effort that they gave especially Darius Martin with the aggression that he showed in the first innings and also he was one of our most economical bowlers along with Ryan John you know taking five and coming in and score 50 and Shema Springer who supported very well with the ball and came and scored half century as well but we should still be a disappointment. I should still be disappointed as a batting group everybody got starts but nobody went on to score a hundred so that's what we strive for consistency and come next game if anybody gets starts we need to go on and get a hundred. Yeah the toss was very important here to win what really made your decision to bowl first? Speaking to the grounds man you know I haven't come to Jamaica in over 10 years I asked them what was the best decision and they told me no bowling first try to get as many wickets as possible and really just that we pick up five wickets in the first session so like I say the guys especially the fastest bowlers must be commanded for the effort that they gave. Yeah talk about your fast bowlers it was an entire day of fast bowling on the first day it got 10 wickets out of them but then you'd introduce Spain a little bit more coming on to yesterday and today tell me a little bit about that what was the reasoning behind that why introduce Spain so late in the game. Well the fast bowlers got most of the wickets on the first day and the wicket was conducive to fast bowling at this point in time and hence the reason why them bad didn't bowl in the first innings and he bowl in the second innings because the wicket started spinning a little bit. Yeah yeah well now your next game we're looking forward to that you're basically on top of the table now because you have the first win what's going to be the strategy going into the next game. Well we we can get complacent as a team it's just one game we win like I say we want to strive to be consistent and in being consistent we want to do the simple things for longer periods of time both with the bat ball and in the field so I urge you guys you know to keep trusting the process and the results will take care of itself. Yeah when we're the islands volcanoes they are a team that have come really close in the last couple years to win in the regional four day championship of course Guyana would have been prevalent in some years but you've been second third always at the top the table of course as much as you could be. Do you think this year you have the team the unit that can bring that championship home? Yeah definitely people don't remember who came first who came second who came third people remember who wins so like I say and I would say again we need to be consistent and if you want to win a championship we need to play consistent cricket right through we can just play consistent cricket in the first innings or in the first session we need to play consistent cricket over a period of four days in each game. Thank you Kimani. Thank you. Yeah so that was Kimani Melias there the Winwood Islands Volcanoes captain and yeah Winwood Islands Volcanoes they have the first win of this regional four day championship, West Indies Championship as is now known. A reminder of the scores Jamaica Scorpions batting first they would have been bowled out for 164 in the first innings. Yeah they would be bowled out twice and yeah just 100 and yes just Jamaica Scorpions they would have been bowled out for 159 and 234 Winwood Islands Volcanoes 341 and a 55 for one to win by nine wickets. That's it here from Sabina Park in Kingston Jamaica. Yeah all right Gerard Marseille there at Sabina Park over at Chedwin Park the combined campuses and colleges following on are 96 for two at Stumps CCC were bowled out for 185 in their first innings responding to the prides 344 for eight declared now Jonathan Carter topscored for CCC with 59 the out of favor West Indies left arm spinner Jamil Warkin 4 4 29 so there you have it the pride 344 for eight declared CCC 185 and 96 for two they have the trail sorry by 63 runs that means they need a further 63 to make the Barbados pride but again in that contest so that is at Chedwin Park let's head now to St. Kitts and Nevis where two matches are taking place there as well in a rain affected encounter Jeremiah Louie picked up five for 29 to bowl out West Indies Academy for 177 with Joshua Bishop topscoring with 48 and the Leeward Islands Hurricanes 124 for four in their second innings Mikhail Lewis topscoring with 55 for 84 run lead at Stumps on day number three so that one could be quite a good one on tomorrow's fourth and final day Hurricanes 137 and 124 for four West Indies Academy 177 and at Connery Cricket Ground no play was possible for a second consecutive day some would say the cause came home others would say there was C pitch under the covers and yeah there was no player rather disappointing remember Trinidad and Tobago um against defending champions Ghana Harpy Eagles and the TNT Red Force scored 215 for four that was on Wednesday's opening day with Jason Muhammad scoring and on beaten 100. Lance Wittega quickly what a story coming out of Connery today yeah well we we we have a confirmed report that there was C pitch which caused the pitch to be unplayable but we also hear that some cows invaded the pitch but that was not the reason but that was not the reason but the cows invading the pitch did happen there's no there's no there's no confirmation that that didn't happen or in or in a rebuttal to that story that's the word I was looking for all right great to see that the Barbados probably looking as if they can get a result at Chedrin Park after losing the first entire first day very much the case in three days let's go to our break we'll go back on the sports mic zone