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Monday, July 21, 2025

Bravo steers Red Force into semis

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Vinode Mamchan
2066 days ago
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T&T Red Force batsman Darren Bravo, left, acknowledges his teammates and supporters after getting his half-century against the Guyana Jaguars during their Colonial Medial Insurance Super50 match at the Queen's Park Oval, Port-of-Spain, on Saturday. At right is Jason Mohammed, who also hit a half-century as the Red Force won by six wickets.

T&T Red Force batsman Darren Bravo, left, acknowledges his teammates and supporters after getting his half-century against the Guyana Jaguars during their Colonial Medial Insurance Super50 match at the Queen's Park Oval, Port-of-Spain, on Saturday. At right is Jason Mohammed, who also hit a half-century as the Red Force won by six wickets.

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Star bats­man Dar­ren Bra­vo con­tin­ued his way back to top form with a crunch­ing 98 as the T&T Red Force de­feat­ed Guyana Jaguars by six wick­ets in their cru­cial Colo­nial Med­ical In­sur­ance Su­per50 clash at the Queen's Park Oval in Port-of-Spain on Sat­ur­day.

Bra­vo and Ja­son Mo­hammed com­bined to take the Red Force past Guyana's first in­nings score of 218-8 in 46 overs in the rain-af­fect­ed match.

Bra­vo and Mo­hammed, who con­tin­ued his pur­ple patch got to­geth­er with the score at 51-3 in the 14th over and added 165 runs for the fourth wick­et be­fore Bra­vo fell two short of his sec­ond hun­dred of the tour­na­ment. His 98 came off 120 balls and in­clud­ed sev­en six­es and three fours.

Mo­hammed, with a cen­tu­ry and two half-cen­turies in the tour­na­ment to date, end­ed un­beat­en on 71 off 81 balls with two six­es and six fours.

With the win, the Red Force en­sured that they were in­to the semis and will al­so fin­ish atop Group B with 24 points.

Ear­li­er, Jonathan Foo fought the en­tire T&T at­tack and car­ried the Jaguars on his back af­ter their top bats­men ca­pit­u­lat­ed against the qual­i­ty spin from the lo­cal fran­chise. Their fi­nal tal­ly would have been a lot less had it not been for his forth­right un­beat­en 97.

While Red Force skip­per Im­ran Khan reap­ing hav­oc with three wick­ets for 23 runs off his 10 overs, Foo sat back and wait­ed un­til Khan was done with his quo­ta be­fore he scored the bulk of his runs. His 97 came off 92 balls with four six­es and six fours.

His stand of 71 runs for the sixth wick­et with Ronal­do Al­imo­hammed was the back­bone of the ef­fort. The young­ster got 27 but it was price­less.

Ear­li­er, T&T won the toss and de­cid­ed to send Guyana in to bat giv­en the rain around. The dan­ger­ous Chan­dra­paul Hem­raj was first to go, sent back by spin­ner Jon Russ Jagges­sar for eight. The frus­tra­tion that led to his wick­et came from the pain of see­ing just 17 runs on the board in the eighth over.

The spin­ners held sway and al­though ball-strik­er Chris Barn­well came in at three, he got tied down as the twirlers were in their el­e­ment. He used 16 balls to notch six runs and could not help his team gath­er mo­men­tum. He couldn't de­pend on the dour Chan­der­paul at the oth­er end ei­ther, as he bat­ted slow­ly.

All the while, the T&T bowlers were en­joy­ing the af­ter­noon watched by a small crowd.

Soon, Khan end­ed Chan­der­paul's mis­ery by send­ing him back to the pavil­ion where his il­lus­tri­ous dad Shiv­nar­ine Chan­der­paul was sta­tioned. His 25 came off 58 balls with one hit to the ropes.

Yan­nick Ot­t­ley, who grabbed a five-wick­et haul ear­li­er in the tour­na­ment, then got in­to the act with the wick­et of Leon John­son was back be­fore Foo launched a rel­a­tive come­back of sorts.

SCORES

GUYANA JAGUARS 218-8 (50) (Jonathan Foo 97 no, Ronal­do Al­imo­hammed 27, Veerasam­my Per­maul 22, Im­ran Khan 3/23, Yan­nick Ot­t­ley 2/38) v T&T RED FORCE 220-4 (44.3) (Dar­ren Bra­vo 98 no, Ja­son Mo­hammed 71 no).

Re­sult: Red Force won by 6 wk­ts


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