Latest update September 8th, 2026 10:20 AM
Jamaica put title on the line against T&T today
After 6-Wkt win against St Vincent in semis
Player-of-the-Match Petra- Gaye Hanson (left) and Karla Cohen who shared 6 wickets between them to help Jamaica to victory.
By Sean Devers
Jamaica moved closer to retaining their Regional Women’s 50-over cricket title when they beat St Vincent by 6 wickets yesterday at Everest in the semis to set-up what should be a riveting final against Trinidad &Tobago at Bourda today.
Although they took 31.3 overs to reach 54-4 after dismissing St Vincent for 53, the Jamaicans wrapped up the game at 14:07 and had enough time to visit the other semi-final venue (DCC) to watch on Television their country’s Usain Bolt-led male track team win ‘Gold’ in the 4X100 relay in Germany.
The girls from Reggie Country will want to emulate their track stars who beat T&T into Silver Medal spot in yesterday’s relay at the World Championships. But after watching an inspired T&T batting display against Barbados in yesterday’s semis, Jamaica should be ready for a ferocious battle today.
The Jamaicans waited until the last ball was bowled in the DCC semi-final and most will hope that the crowd support, stimulating atmosphere and exhilarating finish to yesterday’s semi between unbeaten T&T and Barbados is reproduced today at the region’s 3rd oldest Test venue.
On a sluggish Everest track, Player-of the-Match, Peta-Gaye Hanson started the St Vincent slide to finish with 3-8 from 8 overs and got support from Karla Cohen (3-8 from 4 overs) and Abbie-Gaye Hendricks (2-12 from 6 overs) as only West Indies female player Cordel Jack (10) reached double figures in a dismal batting performance.
West Indies Female player Shanel Daley, who bowled spin in the previous matches due to a knee injury, looked fully fit as she took 1-14 from 7 overs of impressive left-arm medium pace with the new ball. She then hit a subdued unbeaten 4 as Jamaica won with 19.3 overs to spare.
The emphatic win was sweet revenge for Jamaica, who were badly beaten by St Vincent when the teams last met in 2006 and although the ladies from the Caribbean’s largest English Speaking Island will need to pay attention to their ultra cautious run-chase yesterday, they should be pleased with their overall work in the competition.
The feisty Jamaicans do not look like a team which had just 9 days preparation for this competition and their fitness level is synonymous with Jamaican sports.
While the win was not clinical (they provided almost half of St Vincent’s runs with 21 extras and were frustrated by on-target bowling when they batted) the 5th wicket stand of 20 between Jack and Clea Hoyte (6) was the only partnership of note, although Jamaica are without their 3rd West Indies female player (Stepheny Taylor) who could not make the trip due to school duties.
Watched by a small crowd which included West Indies selector Robert Haynes, Jamaica reached 35- from 16 overs by lunch after Herma Nathan-Dawes (11) edged Mellisa Billingy to slip at 20-1 and Jodian Morgan was leg before to Jack 7 runs later.
After the interval, Chedean Nation (3) was run out and Natasha McLean (dropped first ball) was caught and bowled by Jack for 7 as 2 wickets fell for 2 runs to leave Jamaica on 40-4.
The very talented but out-of form Daley and Hendricks (5*) posted the 50 in 27 overs and took another 4.3 overs to score the 4 more required for victory. Jack finished with 2-9 from 10 overs of controlled off-spin in a losing cause on the large ground.
Today Jamaica aim to make a clean sweep of all regional cricket titles this year but judging from yesterday’s almost Boxing match like frenzy as T&T scraped home with their last pair at the crease at DCC, Jamaica’s march to back-to-back championship honours could be a tough one today.
Big Ship T&T has sent the little boats racing for harbour as they sailed into the final but the prospect of facing another cruise-liner in deep water makes today’s battle a titanic one and the task of predicting a winner even harder than the anticipated contest on the field.
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