BRIDGETOWN – Ray­mond Kell­man smashed a match win­ning half cen­tu­ry to lead War­riors to an ex­cit­ing sev­en wick­et win over Set­tlers and their first ever BIM10 crick­et ti­tle here at the Wind­ward Crick­et Ground in Bar­ba­dos on Sun­day.

Open­ing the bat­ting, Kell­man tore the Set­tlers’ bowl­ing to shreds dur­ing a knock of 64 off 27 balls, in­clu­sive of six six­es and five fours and his Play­er-of-the-Match per­for­mance helped War­riors to 122 for three off 9.5 overs in pur­suit of Set­tlers’ 120 for three.

Ear­li­er, Kevin Stoute top­scored with 47 from 27 balls and cap­tain Nicholas Kir­ton made an un­beat­en 45 from 17 balls to help Set­tlers get up to their even­tu­al to­tal.

How­ev­er, Kell­man and cap­tain Jonathan Drakes put on 50 runs for the open­ing part­ner­ship in three overs for the War­riors, be­fore Kell­man joined forces with Mar­rodon Bend, who scored an un­beat­en 29 from 17 balls, and the pair added an­oth­er 50 runs.

When Kell­man was run out with three balls left in the con­test, Bend en­sured there would be no three-peat by the Set­tlers, tak­ing his team over the line with one ball to spare.

CMC