T&T’s un­der-19 women’s crick­eters com­plet­ed back-to-back wins dur­ing the open­ing day of the Crick­et West In­dies and T&T Women’s Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion’s re­gion­al un­der-19 T20 com­pe­ti­tion, yes­ter­day.

The tour­na­ment is be­ing played at sev­er­al venues in cen­tral Trinidad and re­quires each of the six teams to play two match­es dai­ly.

In their first as­sign­ment at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre (NCC) in Bal­main, Cou­va T&T caused con­stant dis­rup­tion dur­ing the Bar­ba­dos in­nings af­ter los­ing the toss and be­ing asked to bowl. Steffie Soogrim forced an ear­ly break­through by claim­ing the wick­et of the open­er, Shai Car­ring­ton who was caught by Djen­a­ba Joseph for just nine with the score on 21 in­to the fifth over.

From then on, the home team was able to pick up wick­ets reg­u­lar­ly as on­ly mid­dle or­der batswoman Shaunte Car­ring­ton got 26 runs for the Ba­jans.

Alysha Gomez was T&T’s best bowler claim­ing four wick­ets for 12 runs from her four overs.

In their re­ply, the lo­cal girls lost An­jani Go­ordeen and Sha­nia Ab­dool in back-to-back de­liv­er­ies with on­ly nine runs on the board but re­cov­ered through the ef­forts of Shunelle Sawh and cap­tain, Re­an­na Far­row.

That pair stitched to­geth­er a part­ner­ship of 84 runs from 11.4 overs. Sawh made 32 not out from 36 balls that in­clud­ed four bound­aries while Far­row made an un­beat­en 25 from 37 with just one bound­ary. T&T scored 90 for the loss of two wick­ets in 13.5 overs.

T&T al­so scored an 8-wick­et win against Guyana in its sec­ond as­sign­ment, which was al­so played at NCC. This time the Far­row won the toss and de­cid­ed to chase.

Once again the T&T bowlers went about the job with pur­pose and found reg­u­lar suc­cess as apart from Guyanese wick­et­keep­er-bats­man, Shak­i­na Gajn­abi made 52 runs from 48 balls, hit­ting four bound­aries and one six. The next best scor­er was Afruica Gen­tle’s 16, while for T&T Gomez claimed two wick­ets for 20 runs and Joseph took one for ten.

Open­er Ab­dool (46) led from the front for T&T in their run chase, along with Go­ordeen who chipped in with sev­en be­fore her dis­missal with 33 runs on the board.

Sawh and Far­row again steered T&T home and both would re­main un­beat­en on 26 and 18 re­spec­tive­ly as T&T com­fort­ably reached 110 for two with Ab­dool be­ing named play­er of the match.

OTH­ER SCORES

Wind­ward Is­lands vs Ja­maica

WWI - 103 for 9 (20 Overs) Jephenia Joseph 34, Shawnisha Hec­tor 18 (Michaela Bore­land 3 for 19)

Ja­maica - 66 for 9 (20 Overs) Xharia Jack 3 for 11, Jan­nil­lea Glas­gow 2 for 10

Play­er of the Match - Jephenia Joseph

Guyana vs Cana­da

Guyana - 108 for 4 (20 Overs) Cher­ry Ann Fras­er 37, Afruica Gen­tle 18 (Mah­wish Khan 3 for 16)

Cana­da - 102 for 7 (20 Overs) Niryam Khokar 23 (Ash­mi­ni Mu­nis­ar 2 for 13, Shabi­ka Gajn­abi 2 for 15)

Play­er of the Match - Cher­ry Ann Fras­er

Ja­maica vs Cana­da

Ja­maica - 86 for 8 (20 Overs) Kate Wilmott 19 (Achi­ni Per­era 4 for 12

Cana­da - 87 for 3 (13.3 Overs) Son­ali Vig 21 not out

Play­er of the Match - Achi­ni Per­era

Bar­ba­dos vs Wind­wards

Bar­ba­dos - 102 for 7 (20 Overs) Shai Car­ring­ton 29, Kaeria Hol­li­gan 23 (Aldith Gasper 2 for 8)

Wind­wards - 104 for 3 (20 Overs) Qiana Joseph 60 not out

Play­er of the Match - Qiana Joseph