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The Devon Paul National Park Premier League concluded with a unique outcome as Village Rams and Dream X1 were declared joint champions after rain intervened in the final.

The T10 tournament, held at the National Park Tarmac and Durban Park saw enthusiastic participation from 16 teams, including those travelling from as far as Mahaica.

Both Village Rams and Dream X1 showcased consistent form throughout the competition, dominating with both bat and ball.

However, the much-anticipated final was cut short with Dream X1 at 1 for 0 in pursuit of 100, after just 1.4 overs, due to heavy rainfall.

In a spirit of sportsmanship, both finalists agreed to share the title and the prize.

The final promised a thrilling encounter with Village Rams batting first and scoring 99 for 7 in their allotted 8 overs.

Ashish Persaud (29 off 14) and Sheldon Alexander (19 off 9) were the main contributors, while 22 extras also helped their cause. Carlos LaRose (2 for 13) and Andrew Gibson (2 for 10) were the standout bowlers for Dream X1.

Dream XI

Dream X1’s reply began cautiously, and they lost an early wicket when Ershaad Ali clean bowled former West Indies Under-19 player Joshua Persaud for a golden duck in the second over.

Nkosi Barker and Raymond Perez were at the crease when heavy rain arrived after just 1.4 overs, forcing an abrupt proceeding halt.

The tournament, a collaborative effort with the One Guyana Local Franchise Cricket Cup, witnessed spirited contests and impressive talent on display under bright sunshine on Sunday, June 22nd.

Host Devon Paul was lauded for his meticulous planning and execution of the event, ensuring a safe and enjoyable environment for all participants.

The league featured two preliminary rounds followed by semi-finals and the grand final.

The preliminary stage witnessed a nostalgic moment in the final match between Village Rams and Pure Entertainers as Village Rams’ captain Omesh Danram reunited with his former opening partner Ershaad Ali after a hiatus of over two years.

The pair put on a quickfire 60 in just 2.4 overs, setting the tone for Village Rams who eventually posted a formidable 150 for 2 in their 8 overs.

Ali was the star with a brutal 68 off just 19 deliveries, well-supported by Danram (32 off 10) and Ashish Persaud (30 off 14).

Isai Thorne, a Guyana national player, and Dexter George picked up a wicket apiece for Pure Entertainers in what was described as a “belligerent and brutal” batting display.

Pure Entertainers, in their reply, could only muster 115 for 5, despite a fighting 48 off 19 balls from Marcus Watkins.

Rashidi Benjamin bagged 2 for 23, while Sheldon Alexander and Ashish Persaud took a wicket each to seal Village Rams’ semi-final berth.

The first semi-final saw Dream X1, managed by the renowned Kefa Naughton, clash with Diamond Gunners in a 6-over affair.

Dream X1 batted first and posted a solid 91 for 3, thanks to a dazzling 55 off 19 balls from Guyana international Raymond Perez and a quick 18 off 7 from Nkosi Barker.

Andrew Lim and Daniel Bamfield each took a wicket for Diamond Gunners. In response, Diamond Gunners fought valiantly but fell short, reaching 79 for 3.

Dream X1’s bowling attack, spearheaded by Carlos LaRose (2 overs, 19 runs, 1 wicket), proved too tight for the Gunners to overcome.

The second semi-final pitted Village Rams against Eccles Allstars, the reigning champions of the One Guyana T10 Blast. Village Rams, batting first, reached 87 for 2 in their 6 overs.

Their innings got off to a shaky start as Ershaad Ali was dismissed for a golden duck by Keyon Joseph, brother of West Indies pacer Shamar Joseph.

Joseph struck again the very next ball, removing Ashish Persaud with a sharp inswinging yorker. However, Sheldon Alexander steadied the ship with a brilliant unbeaten 65 off 26 balls, guiding his team to a competitive total.

Joseph ended with impressive figures of 2 for 13 from his two overs. Eccles Allstars, in their chase, fell just 7 runs short, finishing on 80 for 3, with Keshan Persaud top-scoring with an unbeaten 24 off 8 balls.

Persaud and Benjamin picked up a wicket each for Village Rams.

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By Kurt Campbell in Abuja, Nigeria

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Afreximbank’s presence in the Caribbean is no longer just talk —it’s becoming transformational. And according to the Bank’s Regional Chief Operating Officer for the Caribbean, Mr. Okechukwu Iherjirika, the proof lies in the deals being done, the partnerships being built and the infrastructure now taking shape on the ground.

Speaking to News Room on the sidelines of the 32nd Annual Afreximbank Meetings at the Transcorp Hilton in Abuja on Wednesday, Iherjirika painted a confident picture of where the Bank’s Caribbean office, headquartered in Barbados, is headed by the end of 2025.

“We want to be known as doers,” Iherjirika said.

“Success means closing deals, launching funds, enabling exports and making finance accessible where traditional lenders won’t go.”

Since its launch in 2023, the Bank’s Caribbean operations have rapidly evolved from diplomatic handshakes to serious investments. By the end of 2025, Iherjirika said the Bank aims to have several key initiatives in motion or completed.

It includes: a dedicated fund for sustainable energy, being developed with the CARICOM Development Fund; a feasibility study on the establishment of a CARICOM Exim Bank, in partnership with the CARICOM Secretariat and a state-of-the-art Afreximbank building in Barbados, dubbed the Africa Centre.

Perhaps most powerful is the representation attached to the bank’s physical presence in the Caribbean. The upcoming Africa Centre in Barbados is not just another office; it’s intended as a cultural and economic landmark.

“It will be an iconic structure,” Iherjirika declared.

“In a place once used as a port for enslaved Africans, we are now building a bridge back, on our terms. This time, we’re coming to invest, to partner, to uplift.”

Afreximbank is also doubling down on its Africa-Caribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF) platform launched in 2022 in Barbados, held in 2023 in Guyana and hosted again in The Bahamas in 2024.

“We want to see Caribbean producers exporting to Africa,” Iherjirika said.

“They shouldn’t just be producing for 300,000 people—they should be reaching a market of 1.2 billion.”

The Bank is working to bring small businesses and entrepreneurs from both regions together under ACTIF, to be held again in July 2025 in Grenada.

This means not just trade in goods, but also the exchange of ideas, technology, and joint ventures like one recent example of an African company seeking to co-fund manufactuirng in the Caribbean.

For Afreximbank, 2025 is shaping up to be a defining year for its Caribbean strategy. The Bank’s efforts are moving beyond gestures to real economic scaffolding. Iherjirika’s message to regional policymakers, youth, and business owners is simple: Get involved.

“We’re laying the foundation—literally and figuratively,” he said.

“We’ve broken ground. Now we want the Caribbean to build with us.”

Afreximbank commitments remain to bridge centuries-old divides through finance, trade and shared ambition.

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By Kurt Campbell in ABUJA, Nigeria 

Kurt@newsroom.gy

Former Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has issued a compelling call for Africa and the Caribbean to urgently deepen their ties and work as one, warning that the time for symbolic talk is over and the moment for bold, united action is now.

Speaking on Wednesday at the 32nd Annual Meetings of Afreximbank (AAM2025) in Abuja, Nigeria, Patterson delivered the keynote at a high-level plenary titled “Leveraging a Common Heritage: The Afreximbank Caribbean Initiative”. His speech set the tone for a critical conversation on transforming shared history into shared prosperity, amid growing global uncertainty and widening inequalities.

“We must honour the past by claiming the future,” Patterson said.

“This is no longer just about dialogue or diplomacy—it is about doing. Now.”

Patterson’s remarks come at a time of accelerating geopolitical shifts. From growing protectionism to fractured supply chains and climate vulnerabilities, many countries in the Global South are facing tighter financing conditions, high debt and worsening inequality.

“The post-World War II global order is imploding before our eyes,” Patterson warned. “In this unpredictable and fragmenting world, we must create a safe economic space for our own development—and we must do it together.”

He argued that Africa and the Caribbean can no longer afford to operate in silos, especially when their challenges—such as limited access to capital, overreliance on commodity exports, and brain drain are so deeply aligned.

The Afreximbank Caribbean Initiative, launched in 2022, is fast becoming a blueprint for turning talk into tangible action. Patterson praised the bank for its continued support, including:

• A US$2 billion platform that made vaccines available to the Caribbean during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic;
• A US$2.5 billion project pipeline and a US$1.5 billion investment envelope targeting opportunities across CARICOM states;
• A pilot project to establish an Africa-Caribbean Artificial Intelligence hub, supported through the PJ Patterson Institute;
• And the bank’s collaboration with regional central banks on a Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) to support cross-border trade in local currencies.

“These are not just promises—they are actions,” Patterson said. “And they prove that when Africa and the Caribbean work together, we can solve our own problems.”

The session, moderated by Africa Business Group Chairman Michael Sudarkasa, featured an influential panel including Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis Dr Terrance Drew, AU Commission Deputy Chairperson Selma Malika Haddadi, and CARICOM Development Fund CEO Rodinald Soomer, among others.

The session, moderated by Africa Business Group Chairman Michael Sudarkasa, featured an influential panel including Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis Dr Terrance Drew, AU Commission Deputy Chairperson Selma Malika Haddadi, and CARICOM Development Fund CEO Rodinald Soomer, among others.

They explored immediate ways to strengthen ties—especially in areas like energy, tourism, climate financing, education, and fintech. Patterson called for universities, entrepreneurs, creatives, and policymakers across the two regions to act now to build networks that unlock value.

“We must engage in joint research, build factories and studios together, and design AI that reflects our values and responds to our realities,” he said. “We cannot allow ourselves to be reduced to passive consumers in the digital age.”

Beyond economics, Patterson stressed the importance of cultural and psychological emancipation.

“Our children must know they are heirs to ancient civilisations—masters of medicine, mathematics, and music before Europe even discovered its own continents,” he said. “Colonialism tried to erase our pride. Now, we must rebuild it.”

His final appeal was emotional but resolute: “Our ancestors brought with them not just pain, but purpose. They planted seeds of resistance and dignity, hoping we would one day harvest a better future. That time is now.”

With Afreximbank expanding its presence in the Caribbean and CARICOM leaders showing increasing political will, there’s cautious optimism that the Africa-Caribbean partnership is moving from vision to velocity.

But Patterson made it clear that the responsibility lies not just with governments or banks, but with people: “We must all play our part—not just for this generation, but for the impatient young and for those yet to be born.”

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By Kurt Campbell in Abuja

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Afreximbank’s US$1 billion oil services financing facility for Guyana is already yielding results, with local businesses expressing renewed confidence to compete for contracts they previously thought were out of reach, says the Bank’s Regional Chief Operations Officer for the Caribbean, Mr Okechukwu Iherjirika.

Speaking on the sidelines of the 32nd Annual Afreximbank Meetings at the Transcorp Hilton in Abuja on Wednesday, Mr Iherjirika described the May 21 engagement in Georgetown as “overwhelmingly received” and “transformational.”

“We’re already seeing companies say, ‘We wouldn’t have dared bid for this contract before but with your support, we’re going for it,’” Iherjirika said.

The facility, launched in February 2025 with a following up engagement during Afreximbank’s first Caribbean roadshow in Guyana last month, targets businesses in oil services and mining.

“Without local capacity, the value of Guyana’s resources is externalised,” Iherjirika warned. “We want the benefits to stay home to raise technical competence and build economic resilience.”

The initiative supports Guyanese firms with contracts tied to the oil and gas sector, ensuring they are not crowded out by larger, foreign players due to lack of access to capital. Iherjirika noted that with financing support, these firms can now compete for deals worth US$5 million and beyond.

To qualify for the facility, businesses must be engaged in trade-related activity, particularly those that support the import or export of essential goods and services, including oil and gas.

Regional Chief Operations Officer for the Caribbean, Mr Okechukwu Iherjirika. (Photo: Kurt Campbell/ July 25, 2025)

“If you can’t get the oil out, there’s no revenue. So oil services are essential to trade and that’s where we step in,” he explained.

While direct support is geared toward transactions above US$5 million, Afreximbank is also enabling “on-lending” arrangements through local financial institutions for smaller deals.

“We don’t aim to compete with local banks, we complement them,” Iherjirika noted.

Contrary to assumptions, projects don’t have to involve trade with Africa to qualify.

“Once it touches Guyana, we’re in,” Iherjirika affirmed. “Guyana is now a partner-member of the Bank. That means it operates with the same privileges as African nations.”

The facility reflects Afreximbank’s broader mandate to deepen Africa-Caribbean trade ties. Twelve CARICOM nations are now members of the Bank, which has a regional office in Bridgetown, Barbados.

“This is not just a promise, it’s about delivery,” Iherjirika stressed. “We’ve been charged by ministers not to just talk, but to act. And we will.”

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh had previously hailed the facility as “timely and transformational,” noting its alignment with Guyana’s local content ambitions.

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See full statement by Dr. Vindhya Persaud, Minister of Human Services and Social Security of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana at the United Nations Security Council Open Debate on Children and Armed Conflict – 25 June 2025:

I thank Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children in Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, and UNICEF Director of Child Protection, Sheema Sen Gupta for their briefings.

To our child briefer, Sila, I convey Guyana’s sincere appreciation to you for sharing your story of resilience with the Security Council. The hopes you shared for a better and safer future represent the aspirations of the almost half a billion children worldwide who are living in conflict. Children whose lives are being shattered daily by violence; Children, for whom, fear has become a constant companion – fear of death, injury, abduction, sexual violation, starvation and separation from loved ones.

Excellencies,

The places that should offer children the greatest protection – their homes, their schools and even hospitals are being attacked and destroyed with little regard for protection obligations under international humanitarian law. Denial of humanitarian aid is depriving children not only of lifesaving sustenance and healthcare, but of their dignity as they jostle for morsels of food under dangerous conditions.

The 25 per cent increase in grave violations against children recorded in the Secretary General’s Report for 2024 must galvanize this Council to act for the protection of the children.

It is my fervent hope that today’s debate will be an opportunity, not just to express outrage but to follow through with tangible action.

I reaffirm Guyana’s unwavering commitment to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict as well as the relevant security council resolutions.

We regret that even though the Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely ratified human rights treaty, there is persistent disregard for child rights, including their rights to life, dignity, education and health. In several conflicts, government forces were the main perpetrators of the killing and maiming of children, attacks on schools and hospitals, and the denial of humanitarian access.

The umbrella that international law should provide to children is being dismantled daily. Guyana calls upon all parties to conflict to comply with international law including international humanitarian law and human rights law, and to immediately end and prevent violations and abuses against children.

Inaction by the international community and impunity for perpetrators are emboldening greater violations. We must be consistent in condemning all violations and abuses of children. National and international justice systems must scale up investigations and prosecutions.

The violation verified in the greatest numbers was the killing and maiming of children, primarily by explosive ordnance, by crossfire between parties to conflict and by use of explosive weapons in populated areas. For the second consecutive year, the highest numbers of grave violations were verified in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, particularly the Gaza strip.

Contact with unexploded ordnance and mines was the leading cause of child casualties in Afghanistan, Myanmar and the Syrian Arab Republic and thousands became permanently disabled. Some five million children in Syria live in areas contaminated with the lethal explosives, creating immense risks with every step they take.

Guyana urges Member States to ratify and implement the Mine Ban Treaty as a tangible commitment to protect children. With 165 parties already, this debate must be a catalyst for universal ratification. Donors are encouraged to scale up funding for clearing of explosive ordnance, risk education and victim assistance.

Excellencies

It is abhorrent that sexual violence is being used of as a tactic of war. The alarming 35 percent increase in verified cases of rape and other forms of sexual violence against children in 2024, including the sharp increase in gang rape, should spur us all to action.

Holding perpetrators accountable is key to stemming this deplorable trend. Listing of perpetrators in the annex of the Secretary General’s annual report on children, Security Council sanctions and scaling up prosecution can contribute to reducing this scourge.

Excellencies

The Security Council must use all the tools at its disposal for the protection of children and to dissuade continued violations. This includes prioritizing child protection in mandate renewals of UN peacekeeping operations and special political missions, and supporting continuity of child protection programmes by UN county teams and national authorities.

As we engage in the UN80 initiative towards a more efficient organization, we must ensure that mandate and funding cuts are not at the expense of the protection of children. The Children and Armed Conflict framework, including the monitoring and reporting mechanism, remains critical in informing Council responses and the engagements with parties to conflict towards improving the lives of children.

Finally, I emphasize – Children do not start wars and they should never be made to suffer their horrific consequences. Ultimately, their best protection is peace.

I Thank you.

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Party representatives and observers objected to the use of a spreadsheet to verify and tabulate votes cast in Region Four during the 2020 General and Regional elections but these objections were ignored, a witness testified Wednesday, saying the Returning Officer, Clairmont Mingo, threatened that they would have to leave if they objected.

Local activist, Jonathan Yearwood, made these disclosures as the trial into the 2020 electoral fraud continued at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Yearwood continued his sworn testimony before acting Chief Magistrate Faith McGusty. He is a former executive of A New and United Guyana (ANUG) and served as a representative of the party during the elections.

The court heard from Yearwood that when he arrived at the GECOM Command Center at Ashmin’s Building on the morning of March 13, 2020, he and other GECOM representatives were taken to a different room from the one which was designated for the verification process. The room, he said, was situated at the back of the building next to the car park.

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According to Yearwood, Mingo informed those present that he won’t be reading from Statements of Poll (SOPs) to verify the votes. Instead, he said a spreadsheet was created.

Yearwood said he and other party representatives strongly objected to this.

But despite the objections, Yearwood said Mingo started to call out figures from a spreadsheet.

Yearwood said he and others had photographs in their phones of SOPs from polling stations.

“I personally took photographs,” Yearwood said.

Also, he said the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) had published the SOPs on a website.

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Leader of the Alliance for Change (AFC), Nigel Hughes, and his party are under intense public scrutiny after a woman accused them of using her intellectual property without permission, credit, or compensation as part of the party’s election campaign.

In several Facebook posts which have since gone viral, Nakisha Sinclair detailed a series of events which she said are clear evidence that the AFC and Hughes – the party’s presidential candidate – used ideas and plans she developed to support the AFC’s election campaign.

The ideas and plans specifically focused on education, youth, the environment, and sport.

“So I sent you a cease and desist to tell you not to use my idea or compensate me, and you’re replying to me telling me that I never entered any agreement with you and I am trying to extort you? Nigel Hughes, you are shameless,” Sinclair wrote in her post.

Sinclair explained that the engagement began earlier this year after she shared an education plan with AFC member Catherine Glasgow.

Hughes allegedly followed up with a direct call on February 25, which reportedly led to a 40-minute conversation about her ideas.

“We spoke because you liked my ideas… You also stated that Mr. Alexander was working on one for you guys,” she said.

According to Sinclair, shortly after she submitted a draft proposal, her concepts were absorbed into the AFC’s campaign materials. She further alleges that elements of her work, including structure and language, have been reused under the “Future Forward” banner without credit being given.

Feeling misled, Sinclair said she withdrew her support and formally issued a cease and desist letter in March, making it clear that none of her submitted work was to be used. She claims that Hughes acknowledged her ownership of the material and agreed not to use it.

“Now I am still seeing you use not only my layout, but my name,” she said in the social media post, adding that: “I asked you guys to compensate me for my work and you have the nerve to tell me I am trying to extort the Alliance For Change?”

Screenshots of conversations with Hughes and other correspondence shared by Sinclair reportedly document the exchanges between her and key AFC officials, including the initial submission, follow-ups, and Hughes’ reaction to her compensation request.

Sinclair also took issue with what she described as Hughes’ hypocrisy, pointing out that he recently supported another individual who claimed the government had misused their ideas.

“You had the nerve to come on social media representing someone else because they accused the government of stealing their work but you want to try and use legal positioning – deny, deflect, and intimidate?” she stated.

This controversy comes as the AFC is attempting to rebrand and relaunch itself under Hughes’ leadership ahead of the September 1 general and regional elections.

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Jayden Seales and Shamar Joseph shared nine wickets on the opening day in Barbados to increase the pressure on Australia’s faltering batting line-up, but the visitors’ quicks struck back to suggest another Test match that could unfold in fast forward on a surface that offered assistance for the seamers.

Australia’s reshaped top order slipped to 22-3 against the new ball before Usman Khawaja, who was dropped twice on six and 45, and Travis Head added 89 as they threatened to take control.

However, Khawaja’s dismissal to Shamar Joseph sparked a collapse of 7-69, which included Head for 59 after he’d been controversially reprieved by the third umpire who ruled a catch hadn’t carried to wicketkeeper Shai Hope.

Shamar Joseph produced a beauty to bowl Beau Webster (Image: ESPNcricinfo)

Australia’s 180 was their lowest total in West Indies having chosen to bat first, and their lowest either way since 1995 in Trinidad.

But while they have issues over the batting, the bowling attack remains formidable and the total grew in significance amid Mitchell Starc‘s new-ball burst.

He had former captain Kraigg Brathwaite, playing his 99th Test, edging low to second slip where Beau Webster held an excellent catch.

He then shaped one away from the left-handed John Campbell to leave the hosts 16-2.

Keacy Carty and debutant Brandon King, who had earlier dropped three catches, mixed caution with positivity to see West Indies to within 20 minutes of the close.

But Carty could do little against a delivery from Pat Cummins that kicked from short of a length and caught the shoulder of the bat on the way through to Alex Carey.

Then nightwatcher Jomel Warrican couldn’t keep out an excellent delivery from Josh Hazlewood.

Mitchell Starc removed both West Indies openers in a fiery spell (Photo: Getty Images)

Frenetic pace

At the moment, it would appear unwise to be making cricket-watching plans for the weekend.

Ahead of the game, just the second Test in six years at the ground, there was degree of uncertainty over what conditions would present.

There was movement throughout while the occasional delivery also lifted sharply to challenge Cummins’ view at the toss that “it looks a pretty good wicket.”

Seales ended up edging the wickets tally, but Shamar Joseph was magnificent throughout: his first spell read 6-2-12-2 and his third 5-0-12-2.

With better catching support from his team-mates – West Indies dropped four chances in the innings – he and not Seales would have had the five-wicket haul.

He bowled with pace, movement and occasionally some significant extra bounce.

It took him just 10 balls to make his first impact, nipping one back at the recalled Sam Konstas to pin the 19-year-old lbw although the not out decision needed to be overturned by the DRS.

Cameron Green should have gone for a duck second ball when he edged a drive off the back foot, but King dropped a regulation chance at gully.

Shamar Joseph then saw another chance go down when new captain Roston Chase spilled Khawaja at first slip.

Green went on to be given a torrid working over as he continued to find life tough at No. 3.

Shamar Joseph regularly challenged the outside edge and then drew one which carried low to second slip.

Josh Inglis, filling in for the injured Steven Smith at No. 4, tried to take a positive option but top-edged a pull from outside off which Hope settled under to give Seales his first wicket.

It was not until the end of the over in which Inglis fell, the 16th of the innings, that Australia struck their first boundary when Head opened his account with a strong drive although a slow outfield was partly to blame.

Khawaja then briefly went on the attack, pulling Alzarri Joseph for six and twice sending Seales through the off side, but there was never a great sense of permanency to his innings.

Still, he and Head had repaired some of the early damage as they carried Australia through to lunch without further loss on 65-3.

Fortune favoured Khawaja after the break as he was beaten by Alzarri Joseph and edged through a gap in the slips.

Head also slashed over the cordon as he took a typically positive approach which started to turn the tide in Australia’s favour as he brought up a 57-ball fifty.

Khawaja’s second life came when he slashed to gully on 45 where King was again the culprit, but this one didn’t cost West Indies too many as Shamar Joseph resumed his wicket-taking when Khawaja bottom-edged a pull.

He then produced a magnificent delivery which completely squared up Webster and clipped the top of off stump.

In his next over Shamar Joseph thought he had his fifth wicket when Head edged through to Hope who took it very low and signaled his uncertainty to the square-leg umpire.

The on-field officials went upstairs and, having seen the first replay, West Indies started celebrating only for it to be eventually ruled not out by Adrian Holdstock much to their bemusement – it did appear as though Hope’s fingers were under the ball.

Another wicket did fall before tea, Alex Carey edging Seales to first slip, and it became a clatter after the interval with Head flaying an edge to the keeper and Starc nicking to second slip.

Cummins threw the bat to good effect for runs that, if the low-scoring nature of this match continues, could prove important before Seales struck and gave the Australia captain a send-off on the way to his third five-wicket haul. (ESPNcricinfo)

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