So­ca Kings could not have cho­sen the worst pos­si­ble time to lose in the Dream 11 T10 Trinidad Blast. Un­beat­en through­out the tour­na­ment, the So­ca Kings lost the fi­nal to Samps Army Cocrico Cav­a­liers at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Sat­ur­day, by eight wick­ets in a match they were on the back foot through the en­counter.

Mur­phy’s Law could have cer­tain­ly en­tered the So­ca Kings’ minds.

So­ca Kings won the toss and elect­ed to bat first and found them­selves three wick­ets down for four runs with Kirstan Kallicha­ran, Vaaron Sama­roo, and Ja­son Mo­hammed all back in the pavil­ion, with Shaaron Lewis the chief tor­men­tor with fig­ures of two wick­ets for three runs from his two overs.

The in-form De­journ Charles gave the So­ca Kings a bit of hope, as he struck a top score of 35 runs from 18 balls, with four six­es as he tried to bring the So­ca Kings back in­to con­tention, but when he fell at 49 for four in the sev­enth over, the Cav­a­liers re­gained con­trol of the game.

Jesse Bootan scored 18 as he tried to car­ry the So­ca Kings to a com­pet­i­tive score but de was bowled by Jean Phillip Bar­rie at 61 for five in the eighth over. Sion Hack­ett proved good sup­port for Lewis with fig­ures of two for sev­en from his two overs.

The So­ca Kings even­tu­al­ly closed on 75 for sev­en from their 10 overs.

But as the say­ing goes, 75 runs are still ‘runs on the board’, and the So­ca Kings knew all they need to do is de­fend the to­tal. Amir Jan­goo took any hope of a win away from the So­ca Kings as he got on al­most im­me­di­ate­ly and struck a pos­i­tive even 50 from just 27 balls, hit­ting five fours and two six­es in the process.

On­ly the wick­ets of Cephas Coop­er (11) and Jor­dan Warn­er (1) were any good high­lights for the So­ca Kings as the Cav­a­liers reached 77 for two in eight and a half overs to win the Dream 11 T10 Trinidad Blast.