T&T Women take win over Leewards

After four consecutive losses, Trinidad & Tobago’s Women Cricket Team ended the CG United Regional Super50 tournament with a win, when they defeated Leeward Islands by four-wickets in a low-scoring match at Warner Park in St. Kitts.

The two teams occupied the last two spots on the six-team table coming into the fifth and final round of the competition. Leewards with two points and T&T in sixth spot with no points.

Choosing to bat first, Leewards were bowled out for an inadequate total of 151 inside 41 overs. Medium pacer Caneisha Isaac was the pick of the T&T bowlers with three for 33, and she broke Leewards’ resistance in her ninth over when she bowled batter Tonya Martin for 39 off 62 balls. Martin shared in a 39-run partnership for the final wicket with Rozel Liburd at 14.

Batter Reniece Boyce top-scored for Leewards with 48 off 77 balls, and partnered well with Martin before striking at a delivery from Samara Ramnath through to wicket-keeper Shuneele Sawh.

Ramnath took two for 22 from her nine overs, left-arm spinner Steffie Soogrim grabbed two for 15 and Brianna Harricharan and Karishma Ramharack took a wicket apiece.

Opening batter Djenaba Joseph (19) and Sawh (two) were dismissed within the space of four overs as T&T slipped from 43 without loss to 48 for 2. Lee-Ann Kirby (48 off 30 balls) joined opening batter Ramnath (35 off 114 balls), and the pair put on a 68-run partnership for the third wicket to put T&T in an advantageous position.

Kirby and Ramnath fell in consecutive overs as T&T fell to 117 for 4 in the 35th over, but both Britney Cooper and Shanice Pascall contributed 13 runs to the T&T total to help them over the line.

The T&T team got to the 152-run target with a wide ball from Shawnisha Hector, which saw T&T get their first win in the tournament with 53 balls to spare and four wickets intact despite them losing two wickets in the 41st over, with their score on 151.

In another match of the tournament at the St. Paul’s Sports Complex, the Jamaican team was crowned champions despite suffering a heavy five-wicket loss to Guyana.

Batting first in a game which was reduced to 44 overs per side, Jamaica was bowled out for just 72. Guyana got to the target in the 18th over as they notched their fourth win of the tournament.

Jamaica will receive a US$20,000 prize for winning the tournament.