Nevis Trounced By Anguilla in Li Tournament Encounter
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Sports Page—Friday 19th July 2013–The Nevis team was trounced by Anguilla in a Leeward Islands three day fixture played in Antigua from Tuesday 16th to Thursday 18th July.
Nevis suffered two major batting collapses in both innings and save for the heroics of Adelvin Phillip and Nelson Boland in the first and the same Nelson Boland and Wasim BOOM BOOM Mintos in the second, the score card would have looked even worse
Nevis needing to make 112 to avoid an innings defeat, made exactly 112 all out in their second innings.
Anguilla romped home to victory, just requiring a single run in their second innings to seal the deal
Summarized Scores: Nevis 234 all out after being 87 for 9: Adelvin Phillip 88*; Nelson Boland 65; Tonito Willet 37; Alex Williams 19
Kelbert Walters 4 for 63; Shane Burton 3 for 47; Cokkaran 2 for 39
Anguilla 346 all out: Jamar Hamilton 189; L. Richardson 35; M. Hodge 31; V. Leonard 25
Jason Campbell 5 for 74; Adelvin Phillip 3 for 45; Tonito Willet 1 for 42
Nevis suffered another major collapse in their second innings. After being 39 for 2, they lost 7 wickets for 18 runs, to be 57 for 9.
It was Nelson Boland and this time Wasim Mintos who got them to the eventual total of 112 all out:
Kejel Tyson 26; Wasim Mintos 18*; Nelson Boland 16
Leonard 6 for 35; Burton 4 for 19
Anguilla needing just 1 run to win, got the run after just 5 deliveries in the first over
Anguilla winning by 10 wickets