ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Fast bowler Jay­den Seales picked the per­fect time to score his maid­en first-class half-cen­tu­ry, with his ef­fort sav­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force from be­ing skit­tled out by the Guyana Harpy Ea­gles on the open­ing day of the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship fi­nal on Sun­day.

Seales stroked an un­beat­en 63 off 71 balls, and to­geth­er with fel­low pac­er An­der­son Phillip shared an un­bro­ken part­ner­ship of 78 runs for the last wick­et that helped T&T end the day at the Sir Vi­vian Richards Sta­di­um on 240 for nine from 62 overs.

Un­for­tu­nate­ly, though, the day was marred by an em­bar­rass­ing de­lay that led to just over two and a half hours of play be­ing lost af­ter um­pires Carl Tuck­ett and Deighton But­ler were forced to sus­pend play four balls in­to the match due to un­sat­is­fac­to­ry pitch con­di­tions.