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Blairmont No 4 win Attorney Tajenarine Ramroop T10 softball title
Blairmont No 4 came back in the finals and put their best foot forward when it mattered most to upstage favourites and previously unbeaten Blairmont No1 by eight wickets to take the final of the Blairmont Premiere League Inter Settlement 10/10 softball cricket completion which was played at the Blairmont Settlement
The winning No 3 winning team pose with the accolades and Sponsor and organiser attorney at law Tajenarine Ramroop
cricket ground.
The competition, which was sponsored and organised by Attorney at Law and former cricketer Tajenarine Ramroop for teams in Blairmont and Ithaca villages, saw play in both male and female categories. Six males and two female teams participated in the competition.
The teams taking part competed on a round robin basis with the top two teams emerging to contest the finals; with Blairmont No 1, 2, 3 and 4, Ithaca and Veterans coming out tops.
In the final, Blairmont No4 won the toss and inserted No1 to take first strike and they reached 84 all out in 9.3 overs with Khemchand Persaud 29 and Jugeshwar Singh 17 being the top scorers. Bowling for No 4, Lakesh Takeram had impressive figures of five wickets for seven runs from his two overs.
In reply, Blairmont No4 pair of Vejai Farad with an unbeaten 52, which include 6×6 and Sohanlall Bissonlall 23 not out, were in devastating form as they clobbered the bowling to all parts of the field as their team raced to 86-2 for the win and take away the Attorney at law Tajenarine Ramroop trophy and $20,000. Bowling for No1 Zai Karim picked up both wickets.
In the female game, Blairmont No3 defeated Blairmont No2 by eight wickets to cop the female version of the competition.
Batting first No2 reached 79 with Soma Kissonlall cracking 41 and Zena Singh 22 being the principal scorers. Bowling for NO3 Babita Dwarka took two wickets.
In their reply, No3 led by Dwarka with 38 Not out raced to 82-2 in 8.1 overs and she was well supported by Orica Felix with an unbeaten 19 as they hurried their team to victory. A number of individual prizes were presented to the outstanding individual performers with Vijai Farad copping the man-of-the-match award and the batsman with the most runs in the finals. The best wicketkeeper prize went to Carlos Holmes. The Best Bowler award went to Leslie Amsterdam, the emerging player award went to D. Rasheed, while Dewan Persaud copped the trophy for taking a hat-trick.
On the distaff side the player of the match went to Babita Dwarka for scoring 38 and taking two wickets.
Soma Kissonlall got the award for scoring the most runs in the finals. Theresa Cozier with figures of 4-14 and Vasha Basdeo with 3 wicket got prizes for their bowling performances.
Most Outstanding emerging female player award went to Kimberly.
All the outstanding individual players were presented with trophies. In all 16 matches were played and the tournament was sponsored to the tune of $120,000.
According to MR Ramroop, who was a former magistrate, the main idea of organising the competition is to keep the youths off the street and off of drugs, alcohol and other illicit activities.
Mr. Ramroop used the opportunity to call on the government to come forward and help the communities by organise community and sporting activities. The villages are made up of mostly sugar workers from the nearby Blairmont Estate and farmers.
A number of other activities have been organised by Mr. Ramroop including a tapeball competition involving Police, Blairmont Community Centre, Blairmont Settlement, De Edward and Ithaca.
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