All­rounders Zachary Siewah and Kaiden Pol­lard com­bined for a match-win­ning 111-run part­ner­ship to pro­pel New Gen­er­a­tion Re­cruits to a con­vinc­ing 133-run vic­to­ry over Next Gen Crick­et Acad­e­my on the sec­ond day of the Flair Elite Un­der-23 Crick­et (25-Over) Tour­na­ment at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre, Bal­main, Cou­va, on Sun­day (No­vem­ber 1).

The pair res­cued the Re­cruits from a dis­as­trous start be­fore set­ting up a com­mand­ing to­tal of 207 for six in their al­lot­ted 25 overs.

Af­ter los­ing Za­kariyya Mo­hammed, Yuvvie Kan­tas­ingh and Eli­jah Ash­ton for ducks, the Re­cruits were strug­gling at 28 for three in the fourth over when Pol­lard joined open­er Siewah at the crease.

How­ev­er, the two young­sters showed tremen­dous com­po­sure and at­tack­ing in­tent, putting to­geth­er a cru­cial 111-run stand to turn the in­nings around.

Siewah was the first to de­part, scor­ing a su­perb 66 from 57 de­liv­er­ies. The for­mer Fa­ti­ma Col­lege bats­man struck five fours and four six­es, com­bin­ing pa­tience with ag­gres­sion to re­build the in­nings along­side the cur­rent Fa­ti­ma Col­lege crick­eter.

Pol­lard con­tin­ued the mo­men­tum, bring­ing up an en­ter­tain­ing 57 from 53 balls. His in­nings in­clud­ed three six­es and two fours, with the young­ster dis­play­ing the pow­er rem­i­nis­cent of his fa­ther, for­mer West In­dies white-ball cap­tain and cur­rent Mum­bai In­di­ans coach Kieron Pol­lard.

Pol­lard was the fifth wick­et to fall at 139, but the dam­age had al­ready been done as New Gen­er­a­tion Re­cruits fin­ished strong­ly on 207 for six.

Ronal­do Smith, who claimed the first three wick­ets, was the pick of the Next Gen bowlers with three for 33, while Am­rit Pit­ti­man sup­port­ed with two for 32.

In re­ply, Next Gen Crick­et Acad­e­my nev­er threat­ened the tar­get and were dis­missed for just 74 in 15.1 overs.

Kevin Kan­hai, with 19, and San­jay Naidoo, who made 11, were the on­ly bats­men to reach dou­ble fig­ures as the Re­cruits' bowl­ing at­tack dom­i­nat­ed pro­ceed­ings.

Long-serv­ing Queen's Park Crick­et Club fast bowler Chadeon Ray­mond led the de­mo­li­tion with an im­pres­sive four for 16 from five overs.

Davis Guer­ra chipped in with two for 11, while Josh Tele­maque claimed two for 25. Pol­lard com­plet­ed an out­stand­ing all-round per­for­mance, re­turn­ing to take two for 20 from his five overs.

Sum­marised scores

Sun­day

New Gen­er­a­tion Re­cruits 207/6 (25 overs) (Zachary Siewah 66; Kaiden Pol­lard 57; Ronal­do Smith 3-33; Am­rit Pit­ti­man 2-32) vs Next Gen Crick­et Acad­e­my 74 (15.1 overs) (Kevin Kan­hai 19; San­jay Naidoo 11; Chadeon Ray­mond 4-16; Davis Guer­ra 2-11). New Gen­er­a­tion Re­cruits won by 133 runs.

Touch and Go 201/5 (25 overs) (Saleem Khan 95; Ra­mone Sawh 55 not out; Tyree Due­monte 3-32) vs Fear­less Ti­tans 180 /6 (25 overs) (Tyree Due­monte 77; Aiden Bis­soon­dath 2-23). Touch and Go won by 21 runs.

Sat­ur­day

Gunoil XI 58 (19.3 overs) (Is­hant Roop­nar­ine 13; Aaden Owen 10; Daniel Hold­er 3-11; Zachary Madray 2-9) vs T+T Young­sters 59 /0 (6.2 overs) (Aaron Bankay 39 not out; Ra­jesh Ma­haraj 13 not out). T+T Young­sters won by 10 wick­ets.

Brawl­ing Vikings 140 /6 (25 overs) (Luke Ali 54; Justin Man­ick 33; Shaz­ad Mo­hammed 2-14; Shi­va Sankar 2-40) vs Es­mar­al­da Ea­gles 125 (22.4 overs) (Riyaad Mo­hammed 22; Justin Man­ick 3-17; Nick Ram­lal 2-5). Brawl­ing Vikings won by 15 runs.