KINGSTON-T&T, led by West In­dies women's cap­tain Meris­sa Aguilleira, stayed on a col­li­sion course with the hosts Ja­maica in the Re­gion­al Women's Twen­ty20 tour­na­ment on Thurs­day. T&T de­feat­ed Guyana by eight runs un­der the Duck­worth-Lewis Method, af­ter an un­ex­pect­ed tor­ren­tial rain­storm brought an ear­ly close to their game at Kens­ing­ton Park in the Ja­maica cap­i­tal. T&T again suf­fo­cat­ed their op­po­nents' bat­ting, as Guyana de­cid­ed to bat, and were re­strict­ed to a mod­est 76 for six from their 20 overs with Fe­li­cia Wal­ters the most suc­cess­ful bowler with 2-9 from four overs. No Guyanese bat­ter reached 20, but Melanie Hen­ry scored 18 not out and She­maine Camp­belle, the West In­dies Women's play­er, made 18. The weath­er made a dra­mat­ic turn for the worse, when T&T re­turned to chase, with sun­ny skies giv­ing way to dark clouds and gale force winds. T&T sur­vived los­ing open­er Lee Ann Kir­by for 11 and West In­dies women's bat­ter Brit­ney Coop­er for one, stay­ing in front of the D/L Par Score un­til the weath­er in­ter­rupt­ed on 33 for two af­ter sev­en overs.

Tead­ie Craw­ford wrote her name in the record books with a de­struc­tive spell of bowl­ing that un­der­mined Do­mini­ca's frag­ile bat­ting and cat­a­pult­ed St. Lu­cia to a con­fi­dence-boost­ing, 37-run vic­to­ry in their match. The spell pro­pelled the St. Lu­cians to their first vic­to­ry of the tour­na­ment, af­ter hosts and tour­na­ment favourites Ja­maica crushed them by 64 runs in their first match the pre­vi­ous day. Craw­ford grabbed 7-7 from her al­lot­ment of four overs, three of which were maid­ens, as the Do­mini­cans, chas­ing 117 for vic­to­ry, were dis­missed in 19.5 overs in the sec­ond game of the day at Ched­win Park here. West In­dies Women's star Stafanie Tay­lor gave fur­ther ev­i­dence of her im­mense class, guid­ing the Ja­maicans to a stroll past Bar­ba­dos by 27 runs at Kens­ing­ton Park. A half-cen­tu­ry from dis­card­ed West In­dies Women's bat­ter Cordel Jack led St. Vin­cent & the Grenadines to their first vic­to­ry of the tour­na­ment by 18 runs over Grena­da in the open­er at Ched­win Park. Yes­ter­day was a rest day in the tour­na­ment. Play re­sumes to­day, when St. Lu­cia face Grena­da in the morn­ing at Kens­ing­ton Park, where SVG meet Do­mini­ca in the af­ter­noon, while T&T play tra­di­tion­al sport­ing ri­vals Bar­ba­dos in the morn­ing at Ched­win Park, hours be­fore Ja­maica tack­le Guyana. (CMC)