BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC):
Rookies Mikyle Louis and Joshua Bishop topped the aggregates throughout the West Indies Championship which concluded last weekend.
The right-handed Louis, in his very first maiden superior season, accumulated 682 go to head the batting charts, balancing 48.71 while collecting 3 hundreds and 4 50s for Leeward Islands Hurricanes.
He pertained to prominence in the 2nd round when he took hundreds in both innings versus Guyana Harpy Eagles at Warner Park, before reaching triple figures once again in the last round versus Windward Islands Volcanoes recently.
The 23-year-old had actually formerly played a handful of matches in the Regional Super50 7 years back when he ended up for West Indies Under-19s.
Left-arm spinner Bishop, who included because very same West Indies Under-19 group along with Louis, was the leading wicket-taker with 42 scalps at a parsimonious 20.07 runs each in this year’s champion.
The 23-year-old, playing in the colours of West Indies Academy, shone with a Man-of-the-Match 10-wicket haul in the 4th round versus Jamaica Scorpions although they suffered defeat in Kingston.
Bishop, in just his 2nd superior season, likewise showed helpful with the bat scoring 251 runs in the lower order, consisting of a half-century.
He was consequently called in a 15-man West Indies A group to visit Nepal for 5 Twenty20s beginning on Saturday.
Test captain Kraigg Brathwaite, with 565 runs, Guyana Harpy Eagles all-rounder Kevin Sinclair with 508 and Trinidad and Tobago Red Force’s Amir Jango with 500 were the other batsmen to reach the 500-run landmark.
The left-handed Jangoo struck the season’s just double hundred with a superb 218 versus Combined Campuses and Colleges at the Frank Worrell Memorial Ground in the penultimate round.
West Indies white-ball batsmen Keacy Carty, who collected 495 and Harpy Eagles captain Tevin Imlach with 485 flirted with the 500-run mark.
Not for the very first time, spinners controlled the wicket-taking chart as left-arm spinners Jomel Warrican, who recorded 35 and Ashmead Nedd with 33, together with off-spinners Rahkeem Cornwall with 32 and Bryan Charles with 31, completed the leading 5.
The leading seamer was Hurricanes’ Jeremiah Louis with 30 wickets at nearly 20 runs each.