BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC):

Left-arm spinner Nikita Miller bowled five-time defending champions Jamaica to a 63-run victory over Barbados in the Regional Four-Day Championship yesterday.

Miller collected 5-34 from 23.5 overs, finishing with match figures of 10-67, to earn the Man of the Match award, as the Barbadians, chasing 192 for victory, were bowled out for 128 in their second innings about 35 minutes before tea on the third day of their first-round match at Kensington Oval.

Jamaica captain Tamar Lambert supported Miller with 2-14 from six overs of his uncomplicated off-spin and leg-spinner Odean Brown grabbed 2-48 from 18 overs.

Shane Dowrich was the top scorer for Barbados with 31 not out, but no other batsman reached 20, as the home team a made mockery of friendly conditions.

The victory was formalised when Miguel Cummins was run out for a duck backing up too far and failed to beat Jermaine Blackwood throw from short third man to the bowler, Miller.

The result meant that Jamaica started their defence with 12 points and Barbados slumped to their sixth straight defeat in regional tournaments in the last month.

Starting the day on 13 without loss, the Barbadian opening pair of Kraigg Brathwaite and Rashidi Boucher played positively against fast bowlers Andrew Richardson and Sheldon Cotterrell.

But from the time Lambert turned to an all-spin attack with Miller bowling from the Joel Garner End (north) and Brown from the Malcolm Marshall End (south), the complexion of the game was transformed.