TAROU­BA – The Lee­ward Is­lands Thun­der pair of Kofi James and Mic­ah McKen­zie emerged as the top bats­man and bowler, re­spec­tive­ly, in the in­au­gur­al West In­dies Break­out League, which con­clud­ed over the week­end.

The Thun­der were de­feat­ed by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Le­gions by 17 runs on Sat­ur­day in a pul­sat­ing fi­nal at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my, with both play­ers leav­ing their mark on the con­test.

Leg spin­ner McKen­zie took two wick­ets for 29 runs from his four overs, to car­ry his to­tal to 12 wick­ets, break­ing a four-way tie to emerge as the bowler with the most wick­ets.

He fin­ished just ahead of Je­di­ah Blades of the Guyana Rain­for­est Rangers, Navin Bidaisee of the Le­gions and his team­mate An­der­son Ma­hase, who all fin­ished with 10 wick­ets.

Mean­while, James slammed an im­pres­sive 63 from 36 balls in a los­ing cause, to fin­ish with 240 runs, the most of any bat­ter in the tour­na­ment.

The Rangers’ Kevlon An­der­son was sec­ond best with 227 runs, while Jo­hann Je­re­mi­ah of the Wind­ward Is­lands In­fer­nos scored 203 runs.

James al­so had the plea­sure of blast­ing the most max­i­mums in the com­pe­ti­tion with 16 six­es, while Je­re­mi­ah hit 11 and Shaqkere Par­ris of the Bar­ba­dos Pel­i­cans cleared the bound­ary 10 times.

CMC