KING STRIKES TON IN JAMAICAN TRIAL MATCH

Young middle-order batsman Brandon King crafted a century before retiring hurt on day one of the three-day Jamaica cricket trial match between Paul Palmer's XI and John Campbell's XI at Sabina Park yesterday.

King, the former West Indies youth batsman, hit 103 batting at number four in the order as Palmer's XI ended the day on 263-4.

The free-scoring 20-year-old batsman, who made 80 in last week's opening trial game, hit 13 boundaries in his knock off the 171 deliveries he faced yesterday. But his innings was curtailed when he was struck in the rib cage area by a lifting ball from left-arm pacer Sheldon Cotterell.

There appeared to be no medical team on hand to assess King's injury, but indications coming from the training camp are that no bones were broken.