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St Michael (Barbados) lads hit tons

Posted by CaribShout on July 16, 2009 at 8:43pm

CENTURY-MAKERS: the St Michael School pair of Matthew Greaves (left) and Jon-Ross Brathwaite raising their bats to celebrate their landmarks yesterday. Greaves made 158 and Brathwaite scored 156 versus Parkinson. (Picture by Shaka Mayers.) TWO BATSMEN from The St Michael School batted their way into the record books with big centuries against Parkinson while sharing a massive second-wicket stand of 358 runs in the LIME Under-15 Cricket Competition, yesterday. Opener Matthew Greaves scored a career-best 158 with just six fours on the large Harrison College playing field while captain John Brathwaite, who came in at No.3, made 156, also with six fours. At the close of play, The St Michael, after batting the entire first day of the two-day match, were a whopping 430 for four. "I feel ecstatic. It was a solid innings and I'm a bit tired but it was worth the wait. I played each ball on its merit and ran a lot of twos and threes as I only hit a few fours and no sixes," said the 14-year-old Brathwaite, who hails from Retreat, St George. His partner Greaves, 14, who lives a stone's throw from the Desmond Haynes Playing Field in Holder's Hill, St James, said he followed the instructions of coach Ezra Moseley after the early loss of Jameel Stuart for 19 with the score 25 for one. "It was a bit tiring but in the end, we did what the coach said to do, which was to apply yourself to the situation and bat long," Greaves noted. (EZS)

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