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Monday, July 14, 2025

Ramdin: T&T not good enough

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Wick­et­keep­er De­nesh Ramdin said yes­ter­day the ear­ly let off when Bar­ba­di­an bats­man Dwayne Smith was dropped may have cost T&T the Nagi­co Su­per50 se­ries ti­tle on Sat­ur­day night.

Speak­ing af­ter T&T fell 17 runs short of the vic­to­ry chase of 253, Ramdin not­ed that 'catch­es win match­es.' He said af­ter Smith was put down, it was hard for the mem­bers of the Red Force to pick them­selves up. "We made a good ef­fort in the end but it was not good enough."

Ramdin who top­scored for T&T with 68, said the Red Force lost the match in the mid­dle overs. "We need­ed some­one at the top to bat through and hold it to­geth­er, but it nev­er hap­pened. I tried to bat it out, but could not do it for the team. The Ba­jans out played us and I thought they got 20 runs too much. "

Ramdin said the mem­bers of the team were grate­ful for the crowd sup­port and dis­ap­point­ed at not giv­ing them the ti­tle. "The peo­ple came out in their num­bers, they saw a good game but in the end they would have want­ed a win, and we are un­hap­py that we could not give them what they want­ed."

Smith pun­ished T&T af­ter be­ing put down by Evin Lewis when he was 22.

Lewis, post­ed on the square leg bound­ary, saw the 'white mis­sile' fly in­to and out of his hands and from that point the T&T play­ers looked flat and could nev­er re­gain that Red Force spir­it.

Smith blast­ed 83 to lead Bar­ba­dos to 252 all out and T&T re­spond­ed with 235 all out off 45.5 overs�los­ing by 17 runs.

T&T team lost wick­ets reg­u­lar­ly af­ter a chancy open­ing stand of 57 be­tween Lewis and Lendl Sim­mons. The lo­cal boys egged on by their vo­cal sup­port­ers could not forge mean­ing­ful part­ner­ships af­ter that and nev­er se­ri­ous­ly chal­lenged.

Ramdin was ex­cel­lent though, and he ral­lied the low­er or­der with his pu­gna­cious 68. He faced 76 balls hit­ting six fours and two six­es. Af­ter him the last stand­ing pair of Rayad Em­rit and Ravi Ram­paul brought the home team back in­to the game with a part­ner­ship of 27. The two en­ter­tained the crowd with some pow­er hits. How­ev­er, Em­rit fell short of an at­tempt­ed third run af­ter Fi­del Ed­wards pre­vent­ed a bound­ary. Em­rit made 27 and Ram­paul re­mained un­beat­en on nine as Bar­ba­dos claimed their first vic­to­ry against T&T in 50-overs crick­et since 1977 and their sixth re­gion­al lim­it­ed overs ti­tle.

Play­ers from both teams picked up most of the out­stand­ing per­for­mances awards of the tour­na­ment. Smith was the lead­ing bats­man; Em­rit was the top bowler; Tamar Lam­bert of Ja­maica, the best all­rounder; Trinidad & To­ba­go's Evin Lewis iron­i­cal­ly got the best field­er and Ramdin took the award for the best wick­et­keep­er.

Ear­li­er, Smith si­lenced the fans with his bru­tal hit­ting, as he blast­ed every­thing out of sight af­ter Bar­ba­dos won the toss and de­cid­ed to take first strike.

He and the ob­du­rate Kraigg Brath­waite post­ed 127 runs for the first wick­et in 22.3 overs be­fore be­ing part­ed. In the process they beat the best open­ing stand for Bar­ba­dos against T&T in lim­it­ed overs crick­et. The pre­vi­ous best was 102 be­tween Dale Richards and Patrick Browne.

The crowd was very qui­et for the most part and every good piece of field­ing was met with deaf­en­ing noise, as that was all they had to cel­e­brate.

Part timer Lendl Sim­mons gave them their first re­al cheer as he sent back Brath­waite for 36 made off 63 balls with three fours. He fol­lowed with the 'big fish' Smith and from that point it was all T&T. Smith's at­trac­tive in­nings spanned 77 balls. He struck 10 fours and two six­es.

At the fall of his wick­et with the score 132 the next best Bar­ba­dos bat Jonathan Carter ar­rived to con­tin­ue the good work. An ex­cel­lent work­er of the ball, the left han­der pro­gressed to 49 with­out any fan­fare, be­fore he fell leg be­fore to Sunil Nar­ine.

Score­board

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SCORE­BOARD

T&T vs BAR­BA­DOS

Bar­ba­dos inns

D Smith c DJ Bra­vo b Sim­mons 83

K Brath­waite c Ramdin

b Sim­mons 36

J Carter lbw Nar­ine 49

K Stoute b Coop­er 15

C Brath­waite b Coop­er 9

K Williams c & b Ot­t­ley 1

S Dowrich lbw Coop­er 1

A Nurse b Ram­paul 11

J Hold­er lbw Nar­ine 5

S Benn not out 22

F Ed­wards b Coop­er 1

Ex­tras: 7lb, 11w, 1nb 19

To­tal all out 252

Fall of wk­ts: 127, 132, 195, 206, 207, 210, 210, 218, 241, 252.

Bowl­ing: D Bra­vo 5-0-40-0, R Ram­paul 6-0-25-1, R Em­rit 5-0-41-0, S Nar­ine 10-2-18-2, K Coop­er 9.4-0-62-4, Y Ot­t­ley 4-0-18-1, L Sim­mons 5-0-23-2, J Mo­hammed 4-0-18-0.

T&T inns

Lendl Sim­mons b C Brath­waite 19

Evin Lewis c Ed­wards b Hold­er 27

Yan­nick Ot­t­ley c Smith b Hold­er 0

Dar­ren Bra­vo c Nurse b Benn 17

Dwayne Bra­vo c Stoute b

C Brath­waite 6

Ja­son Mo­hammed c Dowrich

b Benn 26

De­nesh Ramdin+ lbw b Smith 68

Sunil Nar­ine c Smith b

C Brath­waite 0

Kevon Coop­er lbw b C Brath­waite 9

Rayad Em­rit run out 27

Ravi Ram­paul not out 9

Ex­tras: (lb 9, w 15, nb 3) 27

To­tal (10 wk­ts; 45.5 overs) 235

Fall of wick­ets: 1-57, 2-62, 3-67, 4-75, 5-94, 6-142, 7-143, 8-160, 9-208, 10-235

Bowl­ing: Fi­del Ed­wards 9-0-62-0 (1nb, 8w), Ja­son Hold­er 8-0-30-2 (1nb, 4w), Dwayne Smith 3.5-0-35-1 (1nb, 1w), Car­los Brath­waite 10-1-41-4, Sulie­man Benn 9-0-29-2, Ash­ley Nurse 6-0-29-0 (1w)

Re­sult: Bar­ba­dos won by 17 runs

Man of the match: Dwayne Smith (Bar­ba­dos)

Um­pires: Lennox Abra­ham, Nigel Duguid

TV Um­pire: Patrick Gus­tard

Fourth Of­fi­cial: Leslie Reifer

Match Ref­er­ee: Hay­den Bruce


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