CRICKET-SUPER50-LEAD Leacock leaves Scorpions' defence in a spin - 6th match.

ST AUGUSTINE -- A career-best spell from leg-spinner Javed Leacock topped a blistering 94 from Chadwick Walton, and Barbados Pride beat defending champions Jamaica Scorpions by 47 runs in the West Indies Super50 Cup on Friday in Trinidad.

Leacock, playing only his sixth List 'A' match, grabbed four for 43 from eight overs, and the Scorpions, chasing 259 to win, were bowled out for 211 in 44.3 overs in the sixth match of the 50 overs-a-side tournament at the Frank Worrell Field.

Walton smashed six fours and six sixes from 112 balls to lead the Scorpions batting, Jeavor Royal had a late flourish of 44 from 34 balls, and West Indies Test vice-captain Jermaine Blackwood made a resilient 30, but no other batsman reached double figures.

Left-arm pacer Dominic Drakes, son of Pride head coach Vasbert Drakes, the former West Indies all-rounder, took two for 14 from 3.3 overs, and Roston Chase supported with two for 37 from eight overs to keep things steady in the middle of the Scorpions chase.

The result gave the Pride, beaten semi-finalists last year, a winning start to the tournament, but it condemned the Scorpions to a rock start to their defence, as they slid to their second defeat in their first two matches after Leeward Islands Hurricanes humbled them by eight wickets in a low-scoring contest two days earlier at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy.

Drakes made the breakthrough for Pride when he got left-handed opener Kirk McKenzie caught at mid-off for three in the fourth over, but Blackwood joined Walton and they made sure the Scorpions did not lose another wicket in the Power Play to reach 60 for one after 10 overs.

Chase struck in his fourth and sixth overs to respectively remove Blackwood caught at mid-wicket, and Andre McCarthy, an old nemesis of the Pride, caught at long-on for nine, and Scorpions stumbled to 109 for three at the halfway stage.

The Pride bowlers - specifically Chase, Kyle Mayers, and left-arm Raymon Reifer - continued to bowl steadily, and three wickets - two to Leacock - fell in the leg-spinner's first over.

Nkrumah Bonner was run out for nine off his first ball in a bad mix-up with Walton before Leacock exploited the susceptibility of Scorpions and West Indies Twenty20 International captain Rovman Powell to leg-spin and got him caught at slip for a...