Unique Sports Club joins Police as the two clubs that have been promoted to the Premiership Division II of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) National League for the 2024 season.
Unique, the winners of the North East Zone and Bamboo, the East Zone winners squared off for the final available spot on May 21 and 22.
The match was decided on first innings points at Bamboo Recreation Ground, Bamboo 2.
Unique won the toss and invited Bamboo to take the first strike. They were then restricted to 160 all out. The pick of the bowlers was Akeel Seetal, a former West Indies under 19 fast bowler, with some very hostile bowling ending on figures of three for 55 of 15 overs. Followed by Ricardo Maikoo, another former national under 13, 15, 17, and 19 players, who took three for 40 from his 13 overs spell, while Kenson Joseph took two for 20 of his 6.1 overs and Captain Stephen Sooklal another youth player chipped in with one for 44.
In reply, Unique was at one stage batting 97 for 9 then the heroics of Seetal (73 not out) and Ravi Patrick (22 not out) in a last wicket stand of 70 runs won the game.
This is the first club from the North East Zone to be promoted to the Premiership Division II level in the National League for 2024.
BRIEF SCORES
Bamboo Sports Club 160 all out (Ryan Ramasrar 49, Deepak Kumar 30, Richard Ali 27 Kadeem Williams 22; Bowling Akeel Seetal 3/55, Ricardo Maikoo, 3/40, Kenson Joseph 2/20) vs Unique Sports Club 167 (Akeel Seetal 73 not out, Darion Sooklal 25, Ravi Patrick 22 not out; Bowling - Deepak Kumar 5/52, Kadeem Williams 2/53, Marc Panchu 1/8).
