West Indies Test opener John Campbell scored a patient century today as Roston Chase’s XI reached 280 for 7 at stumps of the first day of the four-day Best v Best practice match against Kraigg Brathwaite’s XI at the Coolidge Cricket Ground.
Campbell, who is hoping to retain his place in the West Indies team for the Test series against Sri Lanka later this month, scored 129 from 253 balls from which he hit 15 fours and three sixes in his more than five-hour stay at the crease.
He partnered with Captain Roston Chase to put on a fourth-wicket stand of 183 after Jayden Seales and Preston McSween had combined to reduce the side to 53-3. Seales accounted for the wickets of Shayne Moseley for three and Sunil Ambris for a duck to have Chase XI in trouble early at 12 for 2.
Campbell and Nkrumah Bonner then put on 41 for the third wicket before McSween dismissed the latter for 16. Campbell and Chase took the score to 236 when Chase fell to Kavem Hodge for 75. He struck 10 fours in the innings that lasted for 208 minutes during which he faced 159 deliveries. Campbell eventually fell to the bowling of Rahkeem Cornwall after he and Jermaine Blackwood had put on 16 for the sixth wicket.
Blackwood, meantime, remained unbeaten on 18 at the close. Imran Khan is with him on three. Seales, who also dismissed Raymon Reifer for 2, was the best of the bowlers taking 3-42 while McSween, who claimed the wickets of Bonner and Jahmar Hamilton returned figures of 2-40.
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