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NAGICO Regional Super50 cricket…T&T teach CCC a lesson with 7-wicket win
By Sean Devers in Trinidad
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is considered by many as the party capital of the world and yesterday the raucous fans in the stands, especially the Carib Girls, danced non-stop as Trinidad and Tobago taught CCC a cricketing lesson in their final preliminary round match in the NAGICO Regional Super50 match at the Queens Park Oval.
The Combined Colleges & Campuses (CCC) were bundled out for 98 in 44.2 with only Raymon Reifer (27) reaching 20 as Dwayne Bravo and Jason Mohammed had identical figures of 3-19 from 10 overs. Mystery spinner Sunil Narine befuddled the batsmen to finish with 1-14 from his 10 overs as T&T joined Jamaica and Guyana in the semi-finals.
The hosts reached 100-3 in 16.2 overs to win by seven wickets in emphatic fashion with Evin Lewis, who smashed 44 from 27 balls with seven fours and two sixes and Lendl Simmons, who supported with 38 from 41 balls, leading the march to victory with the team from Carnival Country taking a bonus point in the process.
CCC won the toss and elected to bat in brilliant sunshine and watched by a large partisan crowd, lost Chadwick Walton (2) who played two Tests, LBW to Ravi Rampaul at 10-1 while Kyle Corbin (6) played around a ball from Dwayne Bravo and had his stumps scattered to leave the score on 29-2.
Anthony Alleyne (18) was removed in Mohammed’s first over when he edged a catch to Keeper Dinesh Ramdin as CCC slumped to 30-3 before another wicket tumbled when Skipper Guyanese Steven Jacobs (3) was bowled by Mohammed 12 runs later.
Former West Indies Test captain Floyd Reifer, who has been playing at this level since 1992, got himself dreadfully bogged down and was caught and bowled by Mohammed for a painstaking seven from 39 balls as the students’ collapse continued.
Kavem Hodge (2) was next to go when he nicked Dwayne Bravo to Ramdin at 72-6 and when Raymon Reifer was run out for a pedestrian 70-ball 27 without addition to the score, CCC’s innings were in tatters.
Watched by a crowd that produced a sea of Red, waving T&T flags and blowing horns, Shacaya Thomas (1) seemed unlucky to be given LBW to Dwayne Bravo and the Barbados based CCC were wobbling on the ropes at 73-8.
Mayers offered token resistance towards the end with 19 but the students were soon bowled out with 5.4 overs to spare.
Trinidad and Tobago began their chase like a house on fire with Lewis and Simmons tearing into Kyle Mayers with a vicious assault on the fast bowler.
Lewis drove Kesrick Williams sweetly to the cover boundary before pulling Mayers for six, while Simmons smashed Mayers for two more fours in the over and fans were jumping in the stands.
Jacobs, who represented Guyana in the inaugural CPL, replaced Mayers but was swept for four and dumped for a straight boundary by Simmons as T&T galloped to 34 without loss from just four overs by Dinner.
The pair continued from where they had left off and the 50 came up in six overs with a six and a four off consecutive balls by Lewis off Ramon Reifer, while Simmons slaughtered Williams with a pugnacious pull which reached the mid-wicket boundary like a tracer bullet.
Hodge made the break through when Lewis fell to a soft dismissal as he cut the ball into the hands of backward point at 65-1 in the eighth over just when they seemed set to overhaul their highest opening partnership against CCC of 81 between Simmons and Adrian Barath at Bourda in 2008.
With victory five runs away Simmons who hit five fours and a six in his innings, was bowled by Akeem Dewar and on the same score, Barath (1) was caught and bowled by Jacobs. Darren Bravo (5) and Mohammed (5) were left unbeaten at the end.
The action continues today with the final preliminary round game between Barbados and stragglers Leeward Islands to decide the winner of the zone B.
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