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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Mind games at the Oval

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20140420

T&T skip­per De­nesh Ramdin made a bril­liant move yes­ter­day af­ter­noon when he de­clared his team's first in­nings on the sec­ond day of the Headley/Weekes Re­gion­al 4-day clash, in an ef­fort to keep his team in the game in terms bonus of points in this se­mi-fi­nal clash at the Queen's Park Oval.

T&T re­ply­ing to the Wind­wards first in­nings score of 246 strug­gled to get runs on the board and reached 140 for eight when, Ramdin called in his men. The Red Force had got­ten three bowl­ing points when Wind­wards bat­ted and the vis­i­tors got a bat­ting point. By de­clar­ing his team's in­nings with eight wick­ets down, he de­nied the Wind­wards get­ting their full bonus points al­lo­ca­tion of three. They in­stead got two points. It means that with no points giv­en for first in­nings win and no bonus points al­lowed in the sec­ond in­nings, T&T and the Wind­wards have the same num­ber of points in this game so far, which is three. T&T will now look to play for an out­right and if this does not come by, they will be hop­ing for a draw with all the rain around. An out­right or a draw will take them to the fi­nals.

Un­der the tour­na­ment rules for the Headley/Weekes Tro­phy it states: 'In the event of ei­ther match in the Headley/Weekes Tro­phy end­ing with two com­pet­ing teams on the same num­ber of points, the high­er placed team will be the team with the most wins in the WICB Pres­i­dent's Tro­phy stage'.

In this case, T&T would ad­vance to the fi­nals by virtue of hav­ing won four match­es in the Pres­i­dent's Tro­phy stage, as com­pared to three by the Wind­ward Is­lands.

The Wind­wards bat­ting in their sec­ond in­nings reached 88 for two at the close, for an over­all lead of 194 with eight wick­ets re­main­ing.

T&T will now have an up­hill task of get­ting their de­sired re­sult as they will have two days to ne­go­ti­ate.

Rain did show up on five oc­ca­sions yes­ter­day, wip­ing out 162 min­utes, which means play to­day and to­mor­row will start at 9.30am in­stead of 10am.

Ear­li­er, T&T re­sumed on the bed­time score of 36 for three and af­ter just three overs the play­ers had to scam­per off the field as the heav­ens opened. On the re­sump­tion, overnight pair of Ja­son Mo­hammed and Evin Lewis got to work. Things were mov­ing along nice­ly for T&T when um­pire Nigel Duguid gave Mo­hammed out leg-be­fore. Re­plays showed he right han­der was struck out­side the line off the off-stump by Ken­roy Pe­ters. He de­ject­ed­ly trudged off for 19.

Skip­per De­nesh Ramdin then came in and looked set for the long haul. The pre­vi­ous evening the right han­der had tak­en to the nets with coach Kelvin Williams, work­ing on his bat­ting.

He and Lewis added 37 runs for the fifth wick­et be­fore Ramdin was the first of four men who would edge seam­er Mervyn Math­ew to the wick­et­keep­er. He made 25 from 60 balls and bat­ted for one hour and sev­en min­utes.

The right armer used the over­cast con­di­tions bril­liant­ly to take his team in­to prime po­si­tion. Rayad Em­rit tried his best to inch T&T along as Lewis re­mained sol­id at the oth­er end. Em­rit scored 21 off 20 balls with four fours be­fore he left and soon af­ter the Red Force de­clared at 140 for eight. Lewis was left un­beat­en on 47 off 126 balls in 203 min­utes bat­ting, hit­ting five fours and a six.

Math­ew the for­mer West In­dies un­der 19 play­er fin­ished 4/19 to lead the pack for the Wind­wards.

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SCORE­BOARD

TT vs Wind­wards

Wind­wards 1st inns 246

TT 1st inns

(36/3)

L Sim­mons c M Math­ew b D John­son 19

E Lewis not out 47

D Bra­vo c K Lesporis b D John­son 0

M Richards c T Theophille b L Se­bastien 2

J Mo­hammed lbw b K Pe­ters 19

D Ramdin c Charles b Math­ew 25

A Ho­sein c Charles b Math­ew 0

R Em­rit c Charles b Math­ew 21

I Khan c Charles b Math­ew 2

S Gabriel not out 6

Ex­tras lb5 5

To­tal for 8 wk­ts dec 140

Fall of wk­ts:33, 33, 36, 67, 104, 104, 138, 140.

Bowl­ing: N Pas­cal 5-0-26-0, D John­son 10-2-44-2, K Pe­ters 14--6-18-1,

L Se­bastien 10-2-28-1, M Math­ew 8-4-19-4.

Wind­wards 2nd inns

D Smith not out 44

T Theophille lbw Em­rit 11

J Charles c Ho­sein b Jaipaul 11

S Am­bris not out 13

Ex­tras 5lb, 4b 9

To­tal for 2 wk­ts 88

Fall of wk­ts: 45, 60.

Bowl­ing: S Gabriel 5-0-21-0, M Richards 4-1-8-0, L Sim­mons 1-0-2-0, R Em­rit 5-0-23-1, R Jaipaul 6-0-18-1, I Khan 2-0-7-0.


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