CAVE HILL, Barbados (CMC)

Slow bowlers John Campbell and Nikita Miller shared seven wickets as they bowled Jamaica into the semi-finals of the Regional Four-Day Championship, with a 59-run victory over the Combined Campuses & Colleges yesterday.

Part-time off-spinner Campbell ended with the flattering figures of four for 17 from eight overs, and champion left-arm spinner Miller finished with three for 61 from 27.5 overs, as the CCC were dismissed for 177 in their second innings on the final day of the seventh-round match.

Miller formalised the result about 40 minutes after the start of play, when coincidentally, he had opposing left-arm spinner Jomel Warrican caught behind for four, playing defensively forward.

The result earned the Jamaicans 15 points, moving them to 59 and into fourth place at the completion of the preliminary phase of the tournament, and the CCC bagged three points to end on 49 and finish fifth.

The visitors will learn later whether they remain in Bridgetown to face Kraigg Brathwaite's Barbados side or travel to Port-of-Spain to meet Rayad Emrit's Trinidad & Tobago in the semi-finals, which starts on Saturday.

The final positions will be confirmed at the conclusion of the last match in progress between Guyana and TTO at the Guyana National Stadium in Providence.

Starting the day on 155 for five, CCC were setback in the third over of the morning, when the injured Paul Palmer, their last recognised batsman, was caught at slip off Campbell for a duck.

Miller turned the screws in the next over when he trapped Akeem Dewar lbw for one, playing defensively forward, and Campbell squeezed tighter, when captain Steven Jacobs was caught at deep mid-wicket for 21, going for glory.

CCC were 163 for eight and it was all a matter of time as Campbell had Kevin McClean caught at silly point for 10 from a delivery that leapt at the batsman, before Miller wrote the final sentence.

The victory also meant that the Jamaicans kept their enviable record of never losing to the CCC in this tournament intact.