JAMAICA CRICKET CHAMPION AGAIN: Rookie leg-spinner Damion Jacobs relishes amazing eight-wicket haul.....turned the Headley/Weekes Trophy Final in Jamaica's favour.

Wednesday, April 30, 2014    

GROS ISLET, St Lucia (CMC) — Rookie leg-spinner Damion Jacobs has hailed a "perfect" day in the field, after his astonishing eight-wicket haul turned the Headley/Weekes Trophy Final in Jamaica's favour here on Monday.

Jamaica’s Captain Tamar Lambert (right)
 receives the Headley/Weekes Trophy from
 WICB Vice-President Emmanuel Nanthan
after his team won the Regional Four-Day
 Touurnament in St Lucia in a draw against
 Windward Islands, yesterday.

The 29-year-old, in only his fourth first-class game, finished with eight for 47 as the Windward Islands crashed from 155 without loss, to 217 all out in their first innings on the third day at the Beausejour Cricket Stadium.

It was the fifth-best figures by a Jamaican in the history of the modern West Indies first-class championship.

"Everything came off perfect today. As a leg-spinner, not every ball is going to come out perfectly. Leg-spinners have a lot of bad balls. But today all the variations came out perfectly — the slider, the googly, the leg-spinner came out well," Jacobs said following the day's play.

Jermaine Blackwood on-drives on his
 way to making a century against Windward
 Islands during yesterday’s final day of
 the Regional Four-Day final in Gros Islet,
 St Lucia. (PHOTOS: WICB MEDIA/RANDY BROOKS)

"So I decided if everything was coming out well I should just take it and get a five or sixer and the team was cheering me on."

"It's a dream come true. Back home you normally get those wickets, you don't expect it at the first-class level, but I thank God for it," he said.

Jacobs only made his first-class debut earlier this month against Trinidad and Tobago in Port of Spain, finishing with unflattering match figures of two for 90 from 28 overs. more