KINGSTOWN - Wind­ward Is­lands cap­tain, Liam Se­bastien, opened his re­gion­al four-day sea­son with a con­vinc­ing, and crush­ing ten-wick­et vic­to­ry against Trinidad and To­ba­go at Arnos Vale over the week­end.

The ease of the win came as a sur­prise to Se­bastien, af­ter T&T were rolled over for just 86 runs in their sec­ond in­nings to leave the home team with six runs for vic­to­ry on Sun­day morn­ing.

Ty­rone Theophile saw off the vic­to­ry in less than two overs with a straight dri­ve down the ground, past Rayad Em­rit for four, then a flick through the on-side for a cou­ple. It gave the Wind­wards their sec­ond win in as many match­es, and with Ja­maica yet to play their sec­ond round game against the Col­lege stu­dents, the home side sit pret­ty at the top of the Re­gion­al 4 Day ta­ble on 24 points.

But hav­ing been ill for his side's first round win against the Com­bined Cam­pus­es & Col­leges at the Beause­jour Crick­et Ground in Saint Lu­cia, Se­bastien re­turned to lead his side against the Caribbean Twen­ty20 cham­pi­ons. Key play­ers in Shane Shilling­ford and Ked­dy Lesporis were ruled out of the match a day be­fore due to the same virus.

Yet, with two of the Wind­wards' play­ers sit­ting out and two younger play­ers com­ing in, T&T still failed to take ad­van­tage of their for­tune.Se­bastien was left elat­ed with the way the Wind­wards won. He said af­ter the game, "It's an ex­cel­lent feel­ing to beat Trinidad in two and a half days. The oth­er thing is miss­ing two of our key starters in Lesporis and Shilling­ford makes it feel ex­tra sweet."

Se­bastien picked out Trinidad's ob­vi­ous bat­ting dis­play as their weak­ness and what led to them even­tu­al­ly los­ing by 10 wick­ets. He ad­mit­ted to be­ing sur­prised by how eas­i­ly T&T were rolled over, and thought the vis­i­tors failed to ap­ply them­selves in the con­di­tions.