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WICB Women’s’ t20 final T&T’s Queens wear ‘double crown’ after thrilling last over win against Jamaica
T&T Queens got two crowns after winning the double (50-over & t20 title).
By Sean Devers
Trinidad & Tobago added the t20 WICB Women’s Championship to their 50-over title when they overcame Jamaica by two wickets in a thrilling finish Monday night at Providence in final of the T20 tournament under lights
A fighting 55-run seventh wicket stand between Chinelle Henry, who made 25 not out from 25 balls with two fours and burly wicketkeeper Tameka Sanford whose 24-ball 33, which included two fours, rescued Jamaica from a precarious position of 40-6 in the 13th over to 100-8 in 20 overs.
Anisa Mohammed had 2-15 from fours overs despite conceding 10 in her last and got support from Shenelle Lord (2-23).
T&T in reply reached 101-8 in 19.4 overs with Skipper Marissa Aguilleira (26), Renice Boyce (18), Anisa Mohammed (21) and Selene O’Neil (11*) getting into double figures.
Shanel Daley (2-13) and Vanessa Watts (2-17) did the damage with the ball for the defending champions who won the last competition in 2014 when they beat Guyana in the final.
Jamaica won the toss and watched by a handful of spectators in windy conditions, the girls from Reggie Country were off to an inauspicious start losing four quick wickets including Captain Stafanie Taylor (7) who was bowled with a beauty from Leeann Kirby and the Trinis celebrated the demise of the world’s top t20 batter as if it was Carnival in July.
The girls in red had reduced Jamaica, the only team to play unbeaten in preliminary rounds, to 31-4 in the seventh over.
Kerbina Alexander removed Jodian Morgan (7) at 7-1, Kirby plucked out Taylor’s stump at 20-2 and Mohammed, who started with a maiden, accounted for Natasha McLean (8) and Chedean Nation (0) in the same over and Jamaica were in ‘a whole heap’ of trouble at 36-4 after 10 overs.
Things got progressively worse for the ladies in yellow and green and when Lord got rid of Reshada Williams (3) at 37-5 and the left-handed Daley (13) in consecutive overs and at 40-6 Jamaica were in dire straits.
Henry got going with a boundary off Lord and she and Sanford staged a recovery with Sanford going after Mohammed and hitting her for four off the last ball of her spell as Kirby misjudged the catch at long-off.
The burly Sanford played some innovative shots and clobbered Alexander for four and along with Henry who struck Kirby for a boundary in the last over to bring up the 50 partnership before Sanford, who injured her leg while batting, was run out with the score on 95. Henry steered Kirby for four off the final ball to bring up the 100 in an over that cost 11 runs with the last five producing 46 runs.
When T&T began the run-chase they slipped to 19-2 after Vanessa watts removed Stacy Ann King for a duck at 1-1 and Britney Cooper before she had scored and when left-arm spinner Daley trapped Renice Boyce (18) in her first over at 27-2, an epic battle was brewing.
Two more wickets fell and after 10 overs T&T were 38-4 but there was still hope for the Trinis as at the same stage Jamaica were 34-4. But once Kirby was LBW to Nation for a duck at 39-5 the pendulum had swung in Jamaica’s favor.
Mohammed swept Daley for four and the 50 was posted in the 14th over and they needed 44 from 30 balls.
Aguilleira dumped Taylor for six to take nine runs from the over while Mohammed hit Nation for another six to bring the equation to 23 from 18 balls.
Mohammed (21) was run out at 78-6 and Taylor bowled Aguilleira (26) next ball, and the pulsating contest was on a knife’s edge.
O’Neil (11*) hit Rashana Outar for four which fell inches inside the ropes before Rachel Vincent (3) was run out leaving 11 to win from the last over.
Lord (8*) hit Watts for six with six needed from three balls to give T&T the double with two balls to spare.
T&T’s Aguilleira & Jamaica’s Sanford copped the Award for Keeper with the most dismissals (4 each), Guyanese Shemaine Campbelle got the Awards for most runs in the tournament (182) and highest score (70), Guyana’s Erva Giddings, Jamaica’s Daley and T&T’s Mohamed shared the most wickets award with 9 each, while Taylor (172 runs & 4 wickets) was adjudged the tournament’s MVP.
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