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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Soca Kings end Scarlet Ibis Scorchers unbeaten run

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Ian Wason
763 days ago
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FILE - Jesse Bootan…named “Man of the Match”.

FILE - Jesse Bootan…named “Man of the Match”.

Ashley Allen

So­ca Kings pre­vailed in the bat­tle of the un­beat­en teams in the Dream 11 T10 Trinidad Blast with a nar­row five-run win over Fides Lim­it­ed Scar­let Ibis Scorchers at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Tues­day.

Both teams came in with huge ex­pec­ta­tions and rep­u­ta­tions as they both showed they can score in ex­cess of 130. But on Mon­day the bowlers showed what they are ca­pa­ble of.

So­ca Kings were asked to bat first and they got a 49-run open­ing stand from Kirstan Kallicha­ran and Jesse Bootan who both scored 29 and 23 runs, re­spec­tive­ly. Kallicha­ran hit four fours and one six in his top score from 15 balls and Bootan hit three fours and one six in his knock from just 16 balls.

Kallicha­ran was first out at 49 when Jor­dan Samkaran trapped him in front of the stumps, and then Bootan fol­lowed at 67/2. The dan­ger­ous De­journ Charles made on­ly 21 from just ten de­liv­er­ies faced, and when his wick­et fell at 86 for three in the eighth over, So­ca Kings' hope of get­ting any­where close to 130 fell with it.

So­ca Kings even­tu­al­ly got to 102/6 from their 10 overs.

In re­ply, the Scorchers lost Kamil Pooran for two when the score was 5/1 in the sec­ond over, caught by De­journ Charles off the bowl­ing of Jon Russ Jages­sar. Tion Web­ster fol­lowed soon af­ter when he edged to wick­et­keep­er Kee­gan Jages­sar for one. Af­ter Vikesh Har­ry­lochan de­part­ed for eight at 33/3, the Scorchers were in a spot of both­er with five overs and two balls, al­ready gone.

Dex­ter Sween joined open­er Joshua Da Sil­va and to­geth­er they took the score to 85/4, with some huge shots. Sween scored 30 from just 14 balls with three fours and two six­es. Da Sil­va scored 41 from just 26 balls with three fours and two six­es.

Sween was out on the last ball of the ninth over and Da Sil­va was out on the sec­ond ball of the last over as the hope of a vic­to­ry evap­o­rat­ed.

Scorchers even­tu­al­ly got to 97/5, six runs short of the win.

Jesse Bootan was named "Man of the Match".

SCORES

So­ca Kings vs Fides Lim­it­ed Scar­let Ibis Scorchers.

So­ca Kings 102 for 6 (10 overs) (Kirstan Kallicha­ran 29, Jesse Bootan 23, De­journ Charles21, Bryan Charles 3-25) vs Scar­let Ibis Scorchers 97 for 5 (10 overs) (Joshua Da Sil­va 41, Dex­ter Sween 30, Jon Russ Jages­sar 2-16). So­ca Kings won by 5 runs.

Gi­ants T&T By Maq Group vs Steel­pan Play­ers

Gi­ants 79 for 3 (9 overs) (Suraj Seep­aul 32 not out, Mark Deyal 18, Isa­iah Ra­jah 1-4) vs Steel­pan Play­ers 87 for 2 (7.4 overs) (Isa­iah Ra­jah 65 not out, Justyn Gan­goo 2-1). Steel­pan Play­ers won by 8 wick­ets (DL Method).


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