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Saturday, July 19, 2025

T&T puts sound licking on students

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T&T's Red Force blew past the Com­bined Cam­pus­es and Col­leges (CCC) to book a place in the semi­fi­nals of the Nagi­co Su­per50 se­ries yes­ter­day.

Af­ter an im­pres­sive bowl­ing per­for­mance in which 'Man of the Match' Ja­son Mo­hammed and skip­per Dwayne Bra­vo played lead­ing roles, T&T bats­men plun­dered the CCC bowl­ing to storm to a com­pre­hen­sive sev­en-wick­et vic­to­ry.

Hav­ing won the toss, the stu­dents nev­er ap­plied them­selves in pur­suit of a com­pet­i­tive to­tal and were dis­missed for just 98, with 34 balls left in their in­nings. It took T&T just 16.2 overs to race to vic­to­ry with Evin Lewis hus­tling his way to 44 from just 27 balls while Lendl Sim­mons blast­ed 38 form 41 balls.

The pair added 65 for the first wick­et be­fore Lewis sliced Ke­van Hodge to point and Sim­mons went for a big shot five runs away from the tar­get but dragged the ball on­to his stumps. Adri­an Barath's rot­ten form con­tin­ue when he was caught and bowled by Stephen Ja­cobs for one. How­ev­er, Mo­hammed who joined Dar­ren Bra­vo (5) end­ed the game with a bound­ary.

Ear­li­er, af­ter Ravi Ram­paul re­moved the CCC open­er Chad­wick Wal­ton (2), Mo­hammed and Bra­vo sliced through the mid­dle or­der with some con­trolled bowl­ing, aid­ed by some ir­re­spon­si­ble bat­ting.

Bra­vo bowled Kyle Corbin (6) to leave CC­CC 29 for two and with the ad­di­tion of one run, Mo­hammed re­moved An­tho­ny Al­leyne (18) with his first de­liv­ery as the stu­dents plunged to 30-3.

Mo­hammed al­most grabbed an­oth­er wick­et short­ly af­ter, but Dwayne Bra­vo, field­ing at short mid wick­et, failed to hold a straight-for­ward dri­ve from his op­po­site num­ber Ja­cobs.

The miss, how­ev­er, was not cost­ly, as the part time spin­ner got his sec­ond scalp in his third over when he bowled Ja­cobs as he ad­vanced down the wick­et and missed. At this stage, CCC were 42/4 af­ter 15.1 overs, in des­per­ate need of a part­ner­ship.

Bar­ba­di­an cousins, Ray­mon and Floyd Reifer, led a mi­ni re­cov­ery, tak­ing the score to 66. How­ev­er, Mo­hammed was hav­ing none of it, as he held on to a sharp chance off his own bowl­ing to get rid of Floyd for a painful sev­en (39 balls).

Mo­hammed fin­ished with fig­ures of 10-1-19-3, much to the de­light of his team­mates and the crowd while Bra­vo al­so end­ed with the same 3-19.

The younger Reifer con­tin­ued to bat­tle on slow­ly, but with the score on 73, his in­nings came to an end, thanks to some bril­liant field­ing from Dwayne Bra­vo. Try­ing to steal a quick sin­gle, Reifer was beat­en by a good pick up and di­rect hit from mid off. There was no re­sis­tance from the tail as Rayad Em­rit (1-23) and Sunil Nar­ine (1-14) mopped up the in­nings to leave their bats­men the sim­ple task of com­plet­ing the vic­to­ry.

The win put the Red Force on ten points while the CCC end­ed with sev­en, and will need the Lee­ward is­lands to beat Bar­ba­dos to­day to earn a place in the semi­fi­nals.

The Ba­jans have six points and will need a vic­to­ry to join T&T in the semi­fi­nals.

SCORE­CARD

CCC in­nings

C Wal­ton lbw b R Ram­paul 2

A Al­leyne c Ramdin b Mo­hammed 18

K Corbin b D Bra­vo 6

R Reifer run out (D Bra­vo) 27

S Ja­cobs b J Mo­hammed 3

F Reifer c and b J Mo­hammed 7

K Hodge c D Ramdin b D Bra­vo 2

S Thomas lbw b D Bra­vo 1

K May­ers b R Em­rit 19

A De­war c D Ramdin b S Nar­ine 2

K Williams not out 1

Ex­tras (5w 5lb) 10

To­tal (44.2 overs) 98

Fall of wick­ets: 10, 29, 30, 42, 66, 72, 72, 73, 81, 98

Bowl­ing: R Ram­paul 7-2-18-1, Dwayne Bra­vo 10-4-19-3, S Nar­ine 10-2-14-1, J Mo­hammed 10-1-19-3, R Em­rit 7.2-0-23-1

T&T Inns

L Sim­mons b De­war 38

E Lewis c Thomas b Hodge 44

D. Bra­vo not out 5

A Barath c & b Ja­cobs 1

J Mo­hammed not out 5

Ex­tras 7

To­tal (for 3 wk­ts 16.2 overs) 100

Fall of wick­ets: 65, 94, 95

Bowl­ing: K May­ers 2-0-17-0, Williams 4-0-25-0, Ja­cobs 4-1-16-1, Reifer 1-0-10-0, Hodge 2-0-16-1, De­war 3.2-0-9-1

Re­sults: T&T won by sev­en wick­ets


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