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Friday, July 18, 2025

Kallicharan leads T&T into Bradman final

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Cap­tain Kirstan Kallicha­ran's two half cen­turies yes­ter­day led the T&T In­vi­ta­tion­al Un­der-16 in­to the fi­nal of the Sir Don Brad­man Foun­da­tion Youth Se­ries in Aus­tralia, af­ter back-to-back wins.

In the first match against In­dia U-16, Kallicha­ran struck 54 off 48 balls, and was ably sup­port­ed by Amir Jan­goo, who hit an un­beat­en 37 as T&T eas­i­ly got to its tar­get of 121/2. Kallic­ahran and Jan­goo joined forces when T&T was on 15/2.Ear­li­er, the In­di­ans were at a sea as it was re­duced to 120/7 as Emi­lo Gopaul (2/12), Jonathan Bootan (1/29) and Bryan Boodram (1/18) showed some form.

In T&T's sec­ond en­counter, chas­ing a chal­leng­ing 159 for vic­to­ry, T&T was re­duced to 58/3, but Kallic­ahran came to the res­cue once more. This time he scored 56 off 34 balls to take his team with­in 40 runs of the tar­get. The low­er or­der fin­ished off the job with four balls re­main­ing.Ear­li­er, Boodram grabbed 5/28 to lim­it the Aus­tralians to 158/7 in its 20 overs.The vic­to­ries put T&T in­to to­day's fi­nal at the Woo­lon­gong Uni­ver­si­ty, out­side of Syd­ney. On Fri­day the Sir Don Brad­man Foun­da­tion Se­ries will con­tin­ue when the 50-over se­ries bowls off.

SCORES

Aus­tralia 158 (Bryan Boodram 5/28, Amit Kistow 1/13 Emi­lo Gopaul 1/26) v T&T In­vi­ta­tion­al U-16 159/7 (19.2 overs) (Kirstan Kallicha­ran 56, Kistow 23 no, Amir Jan­goo 22) T&T won by 3 wick­ets

In­dia 120/7 (Gopaul 2/12) vs T&T 121/2 (18.5 overs) (Kallicha­ran 54, Jan­goo 37 no) T&T won by 8 wick­ets


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