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Red Force fied Force nishes on top

TRINIDAD (TG) -- T&T’s Red Force ensured they topped the preliminary round of the Regional Super50 Sunday with a 41-run victory over Barbados at the Queen’s Park Oval. With the win, T&T fi nished unbeaten with six wins in the prelims and a total of 25 points. They will now play the fourth place team in the semi-fi nals on April 18 in Barbados. After skipper Denesh Ramdin lashed a wonderful 134 to lead a remarkable recovery, to see his team reach 264 for eight in their 50 overs, the T&T bowlers led by Marlon Richards with three wickets was able to stifl e the Bajans and restrict them to 223 all out. Ramdin’s fi rst Super50 century and 63 from Jason Mohammed took T&T from fi ve runs for three wickets to 175, before they eventually scored a very competitive 264 for eight. Jonathan Carter then made a fl uent 61 to keep Barbados’ interest in the game until the 33rd over when Shannon Gabriel removed him. Apart from him, Shane Dowrich 28 and Rashidi Boucher 21 were the only other batsmen to offer any resistance. Carter played a classy hand and

while he was there the visitors had a chance of getting the sizeable target. He faced 77 balls struck eight fours and a six. Richards, bowling a good line had the Bajans in early trouble with three wickets before they had reached the 50- run mark. He disturbed the stumps of Kraigg Brathwaite (6), Boucher (21) and chest-on Kirk Edwards (10). He ended with 3/24 and was well supported by Rayad emrit 2/44, Shannon Gabriel 2/43 and Yannick Cariah 2/47. Earlier, T&T won the toss and decided to take fi rst strike and within minutes they would have been questioning the wisdom in that decision as Barbadian opening bowlers Javon Searles and Kyle Mayers were seaming the ball a lot. Using the early morning conditions they got the pitch to respond to their accurate bowling and sent three men back in the hut with just seven runs on the board. The fi rst victim was Adrian Barath who was leg before without scoring.The next over Lendl Simmons got a beauty from Searles that jagged back from outside off stump and struck him in line with the stumps for a legbefore decision. With without addition to the score Kjorn Ottley feathered one to wicketkeeper Dowrich off Mayers. At this point it looked as if T&T was going to capitulate for a meagre score but skipper Ramdin and Mohammed showed the value of their tremendous expeience as they combined for a fourth wicket association that was worth 170 runs. Ramdin was on sound from ball one and batted with great assurance. With the skipper leading the way, Mohammed grew in confi dence and they started to rebuild the innings. Ramdin dominated the varied Bajan attack and took the game away from them with excellent stroke play. With the ball coming unto the bat nicely, Ramdin was allowed the liberty of playing through the line and his strokeplay delighted the 1000 or so fans at the venue. He brought up his half century off 54 balls with one six and fi ve fours. Mohammed soon followed and reached his fi fty with a six over extra cover off Kenroy Williams. His milestone was achieved off 83 balls with the help of seven fours and one six. With T&T out of the woods and pushing for the ascendency, Mohammed lost his wicket going for quick runs. He fell with 63 with the score at 175 and T&T lost another wicket that of Emrit for the addition of three runs. Yannick Ottley came in and saw his skipper bring up his maiden regional Super50 century off 114 balls with nine fours and two sixes. The two added 63 runs for the fi fth wicket before Ramdin exited for a well played 134. His fi nal tally read 135 balls 12 fours and four sixes. Ottley followed for a run a ball 21 and Ganga fi nished on 11 not out, as the innings closed at 264 for eight off 50 overs. The teams will now meet in their regional First Class clash from Wednesday at the same venue.

SCOREBOARD

A Barath lbw Mayers 0 L Simmons lbw Searles 4 K Ottley c Dowrich b Mayers 0 J Mohammed c Brathwaite b Searles 63 D Ramdin c Boucher b Benn 134 R Emrit c Brathwaite b Searles 0 Y Ottley c Edwards b Benn 21 S Ganga not out 11 M Richards c Boucher b Mayers 0 Y Cariah not out 0 Extras b5, lb8, w15, nb3 31 Total for 8 wkts (50ovs) 264

Fall of wkts: 5, 5, 5, 175, 178, 241, 255, 257.

Bowling: J Searles 10-3-23-3 (1w), K Mayers 10-3-35-3 (5w, 1nb), K Stoute 4-0-31-0 (1w, 2nb), S Benn 10-0-53-2 (2w), A Nurse 5-0-52- 0, K Williams 3-0-20-0 (3w), K Carter 7-0-37- 0 (3w).

Barbados inns K Brathwaite b Richards 6 R Boucher b Richards 21 K Edwards b Richards 10 J Carter c Emrit b Gabriel 61 K Stoute lbw Cariah 16 S Dowrich lbw Emrit 28 K Williams c Barath b Cariah 5 K Mayers c K Ottley b Sherwin 5 A Nurse not out 19 J Searles c K Ottley b Emrit 20 S Benn b Gabriel 9

Extras lb7, w15, nb1 23

Total all out 223

Fall of wkts: 24, 42, 44, 93, 147, 158, 171, 175, 207, 223.

Bowling: S Gabriel 10-0-43-2 (6w), M Richards 7-2-24-3 (1nb), R Emrit 10-1-44-2 (4w), Y Cariah 9-1-47-2, L Simmons 3-0-22-0 (4w), S Ganga 10-0-36-1 (1w). Result: T&T won by 41 runs.

T&T 4 pts, Barbados 0.

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