Trinidad Ce­ment Lim­it­ed (TCL) got their first win of the 2014 SIS In­dus­tri­al Crick­et League with a com­fort­able vic­to­ry over cel­lar placed Pro­man. Christo­pher Hold­er (41) and Al Pas­cal (29) made light work of the Pro­man bowl­ing at­tack dis­patch­ing the ball to the bound­ary on nu­mer­ous oc­ca­sions.

Their part­ner­ship al­lowed TCL to post a daunt­ing 110 for 6 off their al­lot­ted ten overs, plac­ing place im­mense pres­sure on a strug­gling Pro­man bat­ting line-up. Ravi Soogrim was Pro­man's the best bowler tak­ing 2-23.

Pro­man in re­ply, tried to make the most of some way­ward bowl­ing by the TCL camp and were helped with twen­ty five ex­tras but they were on­ly able to amass 76 for 6 in their ten overs. Leon Gouralal played a fight­ing in­nings of 25 not out but lack of sup­port from his com­rades meant they were al­ways out of the game. Beemal Out­har had out­stand­ing fig­ures of 2-12 with Hold­er al­so tak­ing 2-17 and Pas­cal chip­ping in with 1 wick­et. Pro­man suf­fered their fourth con­sec­u­tive loss whilst TCL's win keeps their hopes alive of qual­i­fy­ing for the knock­out stages.

Mean­while, T&TEC suf­fered their third loss when they suf­fered a shock de­feat to un­der­dogs TCL on Tues­day. T&TEC won the toss and opt­ed to bat first but failed to build any mo­men­tum in their in­nings.

Ja­son Bho­la (15) was the on­ly bats­man to reach dou­ble fig­ures with an ag­gres­sive in­nings that con­tained 2 six­es. How­ev­er, TCL's bowlers stran­gled the T&TEC bats­men bowl­ing in the right ar­eas to re­strict any easy runs. Beemal Out­har (2-9) and Al Pas­cal (1-10) did the bulk of the dam­age with miser­ly spells to con­tain T&TEC to 59 for 5.

Pas­cal then con­tin­ued where he left off with the ball smash­ing a quick-fire 25 to put TCL firm­ly in con­trol of the game. Pas­cal's in­nings ex­tin­guished any thoughts T&TEC had of de­fend­ing their to­tal. T&TEC tried in vain to de­fend their sub­par to­tal but TCL was de­ter­mined to be the vic­tors on the day and se­cured a valu­able win, clos­ing on 60 for 6 whilst T&TEC's Ra­moutar (2-11) was the best bowler.

Sum­marised Scores

At Plipde­co Ground: TCL 110/6 (C. Hold­er 41, A. Pas­cal 29, R. Soogrim 2-23) vs Pro­man 76/6 (Leon Gouralal 25no, B. Out­har 2-12, C. Hold­er 2-17, A. Pas­cal 1-12)

Re­sult: TCL won by 34 runs

Man of the Match: Christo­pher Hold­er

At Macaulay Park: T&TEC 59/5 (J. Bho­la 15, B. Out­har 2-9, A. Pas­cal 1-10) vs TCL 60/6 (Al Pas­cal 25, A. Ra­moutar 2-11)

Re­sult: TCL won by 6 wick­ets

Man of the Match: Al Pas­cal

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