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Sunday, June 1, 2025

T&T 'Divas' clash with Leewards

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T&T’s all-rounder Samantha Bissoon, right, who scored 35 against Guyana on Sunday will be key in today’s match.

T&T’s all-rounder Samantha Bissoon, right, who scored 35 against Guyana on Sunday will be key in today’s match.

Nicholas Bhajan

T&T crick­eters will go af­ter a sec­ond win in the Re­gion­al Women's Su­per50 Cham­pi­onships when it faces the Lee­ward Is­lands at Bour­da, George­town, Guyana, to­day from 9.30 am.

The na­tion­al team pulled off an easy vic­to­ry over Guyana in its open­ing match on Sun­day at the Guyana Na­tion­al Sta­di­um, Prov­i­dence. Re­niece Boyce scored an un­beat­en half-cen­tu­ry to help T&T to a 69-run vic­to­ry.

Boyce fin­ished on 65 not out and got good sup­port from Saman­tha Bis­soon who was un­beat­en on 35 and Sta­cy Ann King who made 28.

At one stage Guyana was cruis­ing at 72 for one be­fore suf­fer­ing a dra­mat­ic mid­dle or­der col­lapse which saw them ca­pit­u­late to be all out for 152.

T&T need­ed an un­bro­ken 64-run stand for the eighth wick­et be­tween Boyce and Bis­soon to get them up to their even­tu­al tar­get af­ter they had slumped to 157 for sev­en.

While Boyce was pa­tient dur­ing her 90-ball knock, Bis­soon was more ag­gres­sive, strik­ing five bound­aries in her 29-ball in­nings. Their late hero­ics al­lowed T&T to clear 200 and post a for­mi­da­ble to­tal.

In their run chase, Guyana lost five wick­ets for on­ly 18 runs, to col­lapse from the com­fort of 72 for one to 90 for six. Fe­li­cia Wal­ters and Anisa Mo­hammed were the main de­stroy­ers, with each claim­ing three wick­ets to quick­ly turn the con­test in­to a lop­sided vic­to­ry for T&T.

In oth­er match­es to­day, Bar­ba­dos will take on the Wind­ward Is­lands, Guyana Na­tion­al Sta­di­um while Guyana meets Ja­maica at the Ever­est Crick­et Club Ground in George­town.

Bar­ba­dos cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews pro­duced a mas­ter­ful bowl­ing dis­play in the open­ing round to help her side crush the Lee­ward Is­lands by sev­en wick­ets. Matthews grabbed sev­en wick­ets for just 27 runs as the Lee­wards were bun­dled out for just 88 runs.

Bar­ba­dos then romped to 89 for three in 12 overs, with De­an­dra Dot­tin smash­ing an un­beat­en 34 from 12 balls.

Ja­maica post­ed the day’s high­est to­tal of 236 for eight from their 50 overs on the open­ing day of the com­pe­ti­tion. Chinelle Hen­ry led the way scor­ing 54, Natasha Mc­Clean added 40, while Stafanie Tay­lor and Jo­di­an Mor­gan each made 31.

And while the Wind­wards did well to re­cov­er from 69 for eight, they were nev­er in a po­si­tion to pose a se­ri­ous threat to their vic­to­ry tar­get.

Afy Fletch­er was the pick of the Wind­wards’ bowlers, grab­bing 3-34 from her 10 overs. Vanes­sa Pe­ters then wrecked the Wind­wards’ mid­dle or­der, grab­bing four wick­ets for just 25 runs to crip­ple any po­ten­tial run chase.

It took an un­beat­en 47 from Pearl Eti­enne to get the Wind­wards to a re­spectable to­tal, with the 37 ex­tras which Ja­maica con­ced­ed be­ing the next high­est con­trib­u­tor to the to­tal.

To­day's match­es (Start time at 9.30 am)

T&T vs Lee­ward Is­lands, Bour­da, George­town

Bar­ba­dos vs Wind­ward Is­lands, Guyana Na­tion­al Sta­di­um, Prov­i­dence

Guyana vs Ja­maica, Ever­est Crick­et Club Ground, George­town


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