GEORGE­TOWN-De­fend­ing cham­pi­ons T&T will meet Bar­ba­dos to­day to de­ter­mine the win­ner of this year's WICB Re­gion­al Un­der-19 Cham­pi­onship. Bar­ba­dos are the on­ly un­beat­en team in the tour­na­ment but are un­like­ly to un­der­rate their op­po­nents who were sur­pris­ing­ly beat­en by the Wind­ward Is­lands be­fore bounc­ing back to blast the Lee­wards on Sat­ur­day by 96 runs. T&T al­so de­feat­ed Ja­maica and Guyana. T&T will be look­ing to their in­spi­ra­tion all­rounder Em­manuel Lett who con­tin­ued his out­stand­ing show­ing with an­oth­er bril­liant per­for­mance on Sat­ur­day to re-ig­nite T&T's hopes of win­ning the ti­tle. Lett came in­to the tour­na­ment as an un­known quan­ti­ty, but he has proven to be T&T's man for every cri­sis. He made a mem­o­rable un­beat­en 187 in the three-day tour­na­ment and on Sat­ur­day he turned bowl­ing hero with five wick­ets as T&T, blanked Lee­ward Is­lands in their fourth round en­counter.

Lett, bowl­ing his un­com­pli­cat­ed but dead­ly ac­cu­rate off-spin, took a ca­reer-best five for 21 from eight overs to send the Lee­wards spin­ning to 141 all out off 35.5 overs, as they chased T&T's 237 off 50 overs – their best bat­ting ef­fort of the lim­it­ed-overs tour­na­ment. Ear­li­er, Lett made a pa­tient 33 from 52 balls in a sec­ond wick­et stand of 85 with open­er Chris­t­ian Her­rera, who made 37 off 49 balls, af­ter T&T won the toss and bat­ted. The in­nings dipped from 85 for two to 130 for six but skip­per Steven Kat­wa­roo en­gi­neered a su­perb low­er or­der ral­ly as the last four wick­ets added 100 runs in 20 overs. Bar­ba­dos will be look­ing to their cap­tain Kraig Brath­wait­he who has al­ready rep­re­sent­ed the West In­dies se­nior team at Test lev­el. Brath­wait­he has been in good form with both bat and ball and could be the dif­fer­ence be­tween both teams if he is al­lowed to set­tle.