VIN­ODE MAM­CHAN

Class is class! Dar­ren Bra­vo was a cut above the rest yes­ter­day evening at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my, reg­is­ter­ing an im­pe­ri­ous un­beat­en 60 to take Queen’s Park I in­to the se­mi-fi­nals of the T&T Crick­et Board (T&TCB) Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion T20 tour­na­ment.

Queen’s Park chas­ing Cal­drac’s score of 110, got home in 15.2 overs for the loss of on­ly two wick­ets, send­ing a note of warn­ing to oth­er teams in the com­pe­ti­tion.

Bra­vo looked as if he was bat­ting on a to­tal­ly dif­fer­ent pitch from the oth­er bats­men as he lent bat to ball with tremen­dous ease. One of the six­es he hit, struck to roof on top the third lev­el of the Press fa­cil­i­ty.

He end­ed un­beat­en on 60 off 53 balls with five six­es and two fours. Skip­per Justin Guillen scored 20 to be the next best for the Parkites. They now await the win­ners of the Ale­scon Comets ver­sus Mer­ry­boys clash, which took place last night at the same venue.

Win­ning the toss Cal­drac de­cid­ed to take first strike and got off to a good start reach­ing 45 for one off just five overs. Franklyn Rouse the for­mer Mer­ry­boys play­er took a lik­ing to the pace of Shan­non Gabriel and Ter­rence Hinds.

As soon as Guillen brought on the slow­er bowlers, he was able to pull the game back and as wick­ets start­ed to fall reg­u­lar­ly, there was no mean­ing­ful part­ner­ship that could have led to a good plat­form to at­tack to­wards the end.

Leg-spin­ner Yan­nic Car­ri­ah was chief among the wick­et-tak­ers fin­ish­ing with three wick­ets for 18 runs from four overs.

SCORES

Cal­drac Sports 110/7 (20) (Sha­keel Mc­David 26, An­dre Dan­drade 22, Car­ri­ah 3/23) vs QPCC I 115/2 (15.2) (Dar­ren Bra­vo 60 n.o., Justin Guillen 20) - QPCC I won by 8 wk­ts.