GROS ISLET – St Vin­cent and the Grenadines crowned them­selves Wind­ward Is­lands Twen­ty20 cham­pi­ons when they beat Do­mini­ca by 22 runs in a low-scor­ing Cham­pi­onship fi­nal at the Beause­jour Crick­et Ground here Sun­day night. Sent in to bat, the Vin­cen­tians made what seemed to be a sub­par to­tal of 98 for sev­en off 20 overs, with Don­well Hec­tor top-scor­ing with 27. The Vin­cent­ian ef­fort could have been even worse had it not been for a cameo 12-ball 25 not out by num­ber six At­ti­cus Browne while Miles Bas­combe chipped in with 20 at the top of the in­nings. Do­mini­ca used an all spin at­tack for the du­ra­tion of the in­nings that re­strict­ed the free scor­ing of the Vin­cen­tians. Or­tho­dox left arm spin­ner Ray Casimir was the pick of the bowlers with two for nine and off-spin­ner Vi­vian Titre claimed two for 18.

In their turn at the crease, Do­mini­ca then laboured to 76 all out in 19 overs as the Vin­cen­tians em­ployed a sim­i­lar ap­proach us­ing spin for the first 16 overs of the in­nings. Their re­ply start­ed dis­as­trous­ly as open­er Ty­rone Theophile was bowled first ball by left-arm spin­ner Al­ston Bobb who end­ed with two for 11. Ju­nior Jervi­er top-scored with 19. Left hand­ed open­er Ezra Green (15) and all-rounder Titre (14) were the on­ly oth­er bats­men to reach dou­ble fig­ures.

Ex­pe­ri­enced left arm seam­er Ken­roy Pe­ters, who came on in the 17th over, fin­ished with three for 11 while leg-spin­ner Keron Cot­toy (2-17) and off-spin­ner Ronal­do Wright (2-19) were al­so among the wick­ets. In the ear­li­er third place play­off, Grena­da con­demned St Lu­cia to bot­tom place with a 61-run win over the hosts-their fourth straight de­feat in the com­pe­ti­tion. Opt­ing to bat first, Grena­da re­cov­ered from a po­si­tion of two runs for two wick­ets to post the tour­na­ment's high­est score of 175 for five off 20 overs. (CMC)