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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Parkites start with Festival victory

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IAN WASON
453 days ago
20240427
QPCC Isaiah Rajah plays a shot into the leside against Merryboys Sports Club during the TKR/CPL TTCB T20 Festival match at the Queens Park Oval in Port of Spain, yesterday. (Photo Daniel Prentice)

QPCC Isaiah Rajah plays a shot into the leside against Merryboys Sports Club during the TKR/CPL TTCB T20 Festival match at the Queens Park Oval in Port of Spain, yesterday. (Photo Daniel Prentice)

DANIEL PRENTICE

Queen's Park opened the TKR/CPL T&T Crick­et Board T20 Fes­ti­val with a con­vinc­ing 84 runs over Mer­ry­boys at the Queen's Park Oval, Port-of-Spain on Fri­day evening.

Mer­ry­boys cap­tain Mario Bel­con won the toss and in­vit­ed Khary Pierre to bat.

Isa­iah Ra­jah and Jor­dan Warn­er put on a healthy 50-run part­ner­ship that set up a huge and in­tim­i­dat­ing to­tal.

The part­ner­ship came to an end in the sixth over when Warn­er was caught for 25.

West In­dies wick­et­keep­er Joshua Da Sil­va scored a steady 27 from just 22 balls in a 48-run part­ner­ship with Ra­jah.

West In­dies leg spin­ner Yan­nic Cari­ah then joined his cap­tain and they shared a 93-run part­ner­ship be­fore Ra­jah was caught by An­drew Ram­baran on the bound­ary for 87.

Ra­jah faced 45 balls and hit nine fours and four six­es in his knock.

Cari­ah went on to score 48 from 26 and along with Red Force bats­man Jyd Gooli­er who scored 40 from just 14 balls in just 17 min­utes, Queen’s Park went on to score 245 for 4 in their 20 overs.

A tar­get of 246 was al­ways an in­tim­i­dat­ing to­tal that would put the score­board pres­sure on Mer­ry­boys.

They lost Mar­i­on Bel­con for three. Leonar­do Ju­lian sparkled briefly but he was bril­liant­ly caught by Khary Pierre for 24 when the score was 71 for 4.

Vish­nu Boys skip­per and all-rounder An­drew Ram­baran scored a top score of 55 from 31 with six fours and three six­es while Philton Williams con­tributed 26.

While their con­tri­bu­tions were help­ful, it was nowhere close to the tar­get as the team end­ed on 161 for 9.

Queen's Park cap­tain Khary Pierre said he was hap­py to get a win over their ri­vals.

“It's al­ways good to get one over them, they have won many en­coun­ters in the past and you know our win is our win and we're hap­py to get it.”

Pierre was al­so in praise of the pitch as they scored 245.

“Very good, it's a very good pitch, a very good crick­et wick­et, good for bat­ting, you have to bowl in good ar­eas al­so, so you know you must hit your shots ear­ly. So all in all, ku­dos to the ground staff, I think they are prepar­ing a good T20 wick­et.”

Man of the Match Ra­jah who cap­tained the team dur­ing the League, was al­so in praise of the pitch af­ter his match-win­ning 87.

“I think that the wick­et is a good one and we knew that as a team.” Ra­jah con­tin­ued “For us as a bat­ting unit, it was ob­vi­ous­ly set­ting a good foun­da­tion, max­imis­ing the pow­er play was our tar­get there. And then tak­ing it from there, we had depth in our bat­ting and for me per­son­al­ly, just back­ing my­self. I think it was im­por­tant for me to use the wick­et, it was good, use the pow­er play and then car­ry about the in­nings in a more sta­ble way for the rest of the team.”

Sum­merise Scores

Queens Park 245 /4(20 overs) (Isa­iah Ra­jah 87; Yan­nic Cari­ah 48; Jyd Goolie 40*; Namir Suepaul 3-32) vs Mer­ry­boys 161 /9 (20 overs) (An­drew Ram­baran 55; Khary Pierre 3-15). Queens Park won by 84 runs.

Sat­ur­day's match­es:

Vic­to­ria Vs Preysal 3pm

Clarke Road Vs Pow­er­gen 7pm

Both match­es are at the Queen's Park Oval.


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