The in­au­gur­al Bal­main Crick­et Club T10 wind­ball crick­et tour­na­ment got off to a rous­ing start on Fri­day night with two match­es at their crick­et field in Bal­main, Cou­va.

The two games saw a lot of ac­tion with a num­ber of play­ers us­ing the op­por­tu­ni­ty to take part in crick­et af­ter a lengthy lock­down. /in the first match, CSK led by St Lu­cia Zouks play­er Mark Deyal scored 110/5 off their 10 overs with Ricky Sieuchan get­ting 69 and Videsh Sookai 24 not out. McBean in re­sponse was re­strict­ed to 73/7 - los­ing the match by 37 runs.

In the sec­ond game, Same Side bat­ted first and count­ed 78/6 off their 10 overs to which Lu­natics re­spond­ed with 79/2 that to 35 from Is­re­al Mungroo. Ear­li­er, Preysal play­er Kamil Pooran struck 34 for Same Side.

The com­pe­ti­tion con­tin­ues this week lead­ing to the fi­nals in mid-Au­gust. Chair­man of the or­gan­is­ing com­mit­tee Mis­tri Lutch­me­di­al said he was hap­py with the first night's ac­tion. "We are hap­py with what we saw on the first night. The play­ers were all dis­ci­plined, re­spect­ing the Covid 19 pro­to­cols and we will con­tin­ue to en­sure that they do. These play­ers have been starved of crick­et ac­tion for quite a while and they are tak­ing this op­por­tu­ni­ty to get back on the park.

"The club in­tends to make this an an­nu­al af­fair and we want to thank our spon­sors for com­ing on­board in dif­fi­cult fi­nan­cial times to as­sist us. Their con­tri­bu­tion is re­al­ly go­ing a long way in terms of putting smiles back on the faces of our crick­eters. The sup­port has been over­whelm­ing and we will con­tin­ue to use sport for the greater good."

SCORES:

CSK 110/5 (Ricky Sieuchan 69, Videsh Sookhai 24no) vs McBean Kings 73/7 - CSK won by 37 runs.

Same Side 78/6 (Kamil Pooran 34) vs Lu­natics 79/2 (Is­rael Mungroo 35) - Lu­natics won by 8 wk­ts.