TAROUBA, Trinidad, CMC – Off-spinner Brad Barnes and medium pacer Odean Smith bowled the Jamaica Scorpions to their biggest win of the 2025 West Indies Championship as they crushed the Trinidad and Tobago Red Force by 223 runs here on Friday.
Barnes took four wickets, and Smith took three, helping bundle the Red Force out for 165 in their second innings. This dealt them their first loss of the tournament while recording their third win in six matches.
The result temporarily catapulted them from fifth to third position on 82.8 points, as they await the outcome of the matches between Barbados Pride (78 points), Windward Islands Volcanoes (45.8 points), the Guyana Harpy Eagles (102.6 points), and Leeward Islands Hurricanes (79.6 points).
With one more round of matches remaining before the playoffs, the result has set up a thrilling race for the top four positions.
Having earned a massive 201-run first-inning lead, the Scorpions’ batsmen failed to fire in the second innings and were dismissed for just 187.
Brandon King provided the only form of resistance, scoring 89 from 142 balls, with 11 fours and one six.
Off-spinner Bryan Charles took 4-82, Khary Pierre claimed 3-43, and pacer Shannon Gabriel scored 2-28 for the Red Force.
Faced with a mammoth task of scoring 388 runs for victory, the Red Force found themselves on the back foot from the get-go.
Fast bowler Marquino Mindley bowled Kamil Pooran for four, and Smith dislodged Amir Jangoo’s stumps after he scored 18, leaving him with a score of 37 for two.
Smith struck again when he dismissed opener Cephas Cooper for 24 before snaring the crucial wicket of captain Joshua Da Silva for 16, as the Red Force slipped to 81 for four.
Barnes then joined in on the action, dismissing Khary Pierre, Jason Mohammed, and Yannic Cariah quickly to reduce the home side to 119 for seven.
With the contest effectively over, Terrance Hinds and Charles provided some resistance during a 32-run partnership for the ninth wicket until leg spinner Abhijai Mansingh brought the match to an end by accounting for the wickets of Charles and Gabriel.
Barnes finished with figures of 4-19, Smith snagged 3-19, while Mansingh took 2-27.
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