Cen­tral Sports end­ed Queen’s Park Crick­et Club's (QPCC) I reign of the T&T Crick­et Board T20 Fes­ti­val Pre­mier­ship I with an eight-wick­et win over the Tra­garete road team at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do, on Fri­day.

Red Force white ball open­er Kjorn Ot­t­ley was a man on a mis­sion as he led the Fe­lic­i­ty team to the win in a semi­fi­nal re­duced to eight overs due to rain.

QPCC bat­ted first and with no time to waste, Amir Jan­goo was runout for one in the first over. Queen’s Park ob­vi­ous­ly look­ing to take ad­van­tage of every avail­able run, they then got a 30-run part­ner­ship in which Tion Web­ster (19) dom­i­nat­ed with Dar­ren Bra­vo who went on to top score with 25.

The re­main­ing Queen’s Park bats­men’s ob­vi­ous man­date was to get as many runs as pos­si­ble even as they lost wick­ets in do­ing so. Queen’s Park man­aged to reach 82 for 8 in their eight overs.

Apart from Bra­vo’s 25 and Web­ster’s 19, no one else got to dou­ble fig­ures. Mark Deyal was the best bowler for Cen­tral Sports with four for 26, while Bar­ba­di­an Roshon Primus got two for 16.

Cen­tral Sports lost Kamil Pooran (0) in the sec­ond over at sev­en for one, but that was just the sig­nal for Ot­t­ley to ex­plode.

The left-han­der dom­i­nat­ed with a 65-run part­ner­ship with Bar­ba­di­an Roshan Primus (16) and was dis­missed with the score on 72. But by then Ot­t­ley had al­ready hit 54 runs from just 29 balls, laced with six six­es and two fours. Then it was up to Primus and Jesse Bootan (6) to fin­ish the job.

Bootan com­plet­ed the win with a huge six over the bowler’s (Web­ster) head as they reached 87 for two with two balls to spare.

Cen­tral Sports will play the win­ner of Clarke Road and Pow­er­gen. That match was yet to be­gin at press time.

BRIEF SCORES:

Fri­day

Pre­mier­ship I Se­mi-fi­nal 1

Queen’s Park One 82/8 (8 overs) (Dar­ren Bra­vo 25, Tion Web­ster 19, Mark Deyal 4-26, Roshan Primus 2-16) vs Cen­tral Sports 87/2 (7.4 overs) (Kjorn Ot­t­ley 54, Dex­ter Sween 2-15). Cen­tral Sports won by eight wick­ets.

Thurs­day

Pre­mier­ship II

Se­mi-Fi­nal 1

Pre­mier League U-19 137/5 (20 overs) (Justin Jages­sar 30. Joshua Davis 27 not out, Tris­ton Singh 2-25) vs HKL Aranguez 100/9 (20 overs) (Dion Fer­ri­er 22, Safraz Lal­loo 22, Zachary Siewah 3-17). Pre­mier League U-19 won by 37 runs.

Semi­fi­nal 2

De­fence Force 145/6 (20 overs) (Jor­dan Samkaran 54, An­dre Med­i­na 46 not out, Teshawn Cas­tro 3-13) vs Marchin Par­tri­ots 149 / 2 (17.3 overs) (Adri­an Ali 70, Ha­keem Mitchell 52 not out, Jor­dan Samkaran 1-20, An­dre Med­i­na 1-36). Marchin Sports won by 8 wick­ets.

TO­DAY'S FI­NALS

Pre­mier­ship II

Pre­mier League U-19 vs Marchin Sports, 3 pm

Pre­mier­ship I

Cen­tral Sports vs Clarke Road/Pow­er­gen, 7 pm