Haynes blames batting collapse as Scorpions crash to Pride at Sabina Park

Jamaica Scorpions head coach Robert Haynes laid the blame squarely on his batsmen after the regional side slumped to an innings-and-11-run defeat against Barbados in their third-round West Indies Championship fixture at Sabina Park.

Resuming on Tuesday morning facing the daunting prospect of forcing Barbados to bat again, the home side were dismissed for 286 in their second innings, leaving them well short of safety.

Leading the wrecking crew for the Pride was 25-year-old left-arm finger spinner Joshua Bishop, who claimed 5-72 to add to the four wickets he picked up in Monday's first-innings rout of the Scorpions.

Lower-order hitter Odean Smith top-scored with a blistering 73, while Brandon King contributed 63. The strip notably played with less turn and bounce than it had displayed on the second day.

Scores: Barbados 439 (112 overs); Jamaica 142 (51 overs) and 286 (70.4 overs).

Jamaica had taken the opening match of the three-game bilateral series a fortnight earlier at Chedwin Park, but conceded first-innings points the previous week at Sabina Park. Tuesday's loss, completed comfortably inside day three of the scheduled four-day match, brought the curtain down on the Scorpions' regional first-class campaign while sending Barbados through to the closing stages of the tournament.

"The batting was the [major downfall]…I think we lost the game there," Haynes told the Jamaica Observer in a post-match interview. "It was an easy-paced wicket and Barbados batted pretty well although we still didn't get the lines that we wanted, but the guys tried their best."

The former Jamaica and West Indies cricketer expressed frustration over his charges' approach at the crease.

"We have to play situations, and we didn't do that. The pitch was spinning a bit…but at the end of the day we didn't look as if we wanted to accumulate runs by getting the ones and twos. Guys were going out there like they were afraid…and at the end of the day we just batted really bad," Haynes said.

Barbados captain Kraigg Brathwaite was full of praise for his side's response after losing the series opener.

"I'm very proud of the team. I thought we put in a good effort from the second game, getting first innings, [despite] that big total that Jamaica scored, and then getting a win in this last game is a very good effort," Brathwaite said.

Looking back on the third-match success, the Pride skipper credited both batters and bowlers for the all-round display that allowed his team to control proceedings throughout.

Under bright sunshine on Tuesday, Jamaica picked up their second innings on 22 for one, still requiring 275 runs to dodge an innings reverse. Any chance of an unlikely escape rested heavily on overnight pair King, then 15 not out, and left-hander Kirk McKenzie on seven.

With the score on 31, McKenzie departed for 12, trapped leg before by left-arm pacer Jediah Blades to a ball that seemed to stay low.

Left-hander Javelle Glenn launched a brisk counter-attack but his aggression proved his undoing, caught by Shamar Springer off Bishop. Glenn's 30 came from 15 deliveries and included six boundaries and a six.

Brad Barnes survived 28 balls for 16 before falling lbw to Roston Chase with the score at 96 for four. Romaine Morris struggled to find the boundary and surprisingly returned a catch to Brathwaite from a looping off break, leaving Jamaica wobbling on 128 for five at the lunch interval.

King, the West Indies Test batsman, looked elegant in pulling, sweeping and driving his way to a half-century before that very sweep undid him, given lbw to West Indies Test left-arm finger spinner Jomel Warrican. The right-hander struck nine fours in compiling 63 from 144 balls.

Peat Salmon (28) became Bishop's third scalp of the innings, taken by substitute fielder Johann Layne.

The big-hitting Smith, who delivered several enormous blows, joined Abhijai Mansingh in an 86-run eighth-wicket partnership that pushed the Scorpions beyond 250. Once Mansingh fell for 35 to Warrican, the resistance crumbled. Smith, whose 46-ball cameo featured seven sixes and five fours, was eventually accounted for by Bishop, before last man Khari Campbell (0) also fell to the spinner as Barbados completed a comprehensive win.