Vin­ode Mam­chan

An amaz­ing bat­ting feat was achieved last week­end, as To­ba­go bats­man Iraq Thomas slammed a cen­tu­ry of just 21 balls in the To­ba­go Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion 's (TCA) T20 tour­na­ment at Louis D'or.

The 23-year old Thomas turned out on Sun­day to play two match­es for his club Scar­bor­ough/Ma­son Hall in the top flight of the TCA com­pe­ti­tion. In the first match he slammed 97 of 53 balls against Char­lot­teville but the ac­tion was re­al­ly in the sec­ond en­counter of the af­ter­noon, when he slammed what is sure­ly a record in do­mes­tic crick­et.

Bat­ting first Spey­side made 151/7 of 20 overs. This looked a good score un­til Thomas and F Tyson took to the crease to chase the tar­get. Af­ter eight overs, the fans were leav­ing the venue, as the match was over.

In an amaz­ing dis­play of pow­er­hit­ting, Thomas reached his cen­tu­ry of just 21 balls and end­ed with an un­beat­en 131 of 31 balls with 15 six­es and five fours.

"Speak­ing about the feat, the for­mer T&T U-13 play­er said: "I was just very hap­py to reach my first T20 cen­tu­ry. I have played crick­et for a while and to get this cen­tu­ry in the short­est for­mat left me very hap­py. I played for Queen's Park in Trinidad, so com­ing in­to this tour­na­ment I had some good ex­pe­ri­ence hav­ing played at that lev­el in Trinidad."

Thomas said the ground was not the biggest and this gave him the con­fi­dence to go af­ter the bowlers. "You can even chase down 180 on this ground be­cause it is not the biggest and it gave me re­al con­fi­dence to go af­ter the bowlers. I nev­er thought I would get the runs as quick­ly as I did but af­ter hit­ting a few, I re­alised that some­thing spe­cial can hap­pen out there and it came through."

Thomas played for T&T U-13 and al­so at­tend­ed tri­als for the na­tion­al U-19 team as well. He al­so went to Eng­land to play in the Leagues cour­tesy a schol­ar­ship from At­lantic LNG and this ex­pe­ri­ence ac­cord­ing to him was a ma­jor boost to his crick­et.

Sim­mons records ton against QPCC 2

Na­tion­al youth play­er Kea­gan Sim­mons was in spark­ing form on the week­end hit­ting an un­beat­en cen­tu­ry,as his team Cane Farm drew their TTCB Cham­pi­onship match against QPCC 2, at the Sa­van­nah.

Bat­ting first, QPCC 2 got runs from for­mer West In­dies U-19 play­er Jonathan Au­gus­tus 77 and cur­rent West In­dies Un­der-19 play­er Kirstan Kallicha­ran. They to­talled 356 with Au­gus­tus hit­ting 77 and Kallicha­ran 56. Cane Farm re­spond­ed with 293 all out as Kea­gan's cousin Ker­ron Sim­mons slapped 56 and Bran­don Ram­di­al 68. Bat­ting a sec­ond time Queen's Park de­clared at 249/4 - set­ting Cane Farm 312 runs for vic­to­ry. Kea­gan then took charge and scored a sol­id un­beat­en 102, as Cane Farm saved the game at 179 for four.

Re­gal per­for­mance by Browne for Ever­green

Re­gal Browne scored his maid­en cen­tu­ry for Ra­hamut's Ever­green to put the club in a com­mand­ing po­si­tion against Ce­dros Pro­gres­sive Sports Club at the end of the open­ing day in the fifth round of the T&T South Cham­pi­onship Three-Day League at the Ever­green Grounds in San Fran­cique, on Sun­day.

Browne scored 132 to guide Ever­green to 388 all out bat­ting first. He was ably sup­port­ed by Mark John­son's un­beat­en 70 and Ato Rock­cliffe's 63. Ear­li­er af­ter be­ing sent in to bat by Ce­dros, Ever­green got a strong start from the open­ing pair of Rock­cliffe and Sachin Ramkhelawan. At the end of play, Ce­dros closed on 17 with­out loss.

Ever­green, which led the stand­ings by five points at the start of the round, is cap­tained by Travis Bly­den. The match is sched­uled to con­tin­ue on Sun­day.

SS­CL In­ter­col fi­nals May 6

The fi­nals of the Sec­ondary Schools In­ter­col tour­na­ment will take place on Fri­day, May 6 at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre (NCC) in Cou­va.

Pres­i­dent of the SS­CL, Su­ru­dath Ma­habir said that both the Girls and Boys fi­nals will take place on the same day and on Tues­day of next week, the cap­tains from the var­i­ous schools will square up at the of­fi­cial press brief­ing for the fi­nals at the Mar­riot Ho­tel, Port of Spain.

The teams to con­test the fi­nals are yet to be de­ter­mined, as they In­ter­col has now reached the se­mi-fi­nal stages. On Thurs­day Na­pari­ma Col­lege will bat­tle Cara­pichaima East at the NCC, while Bar­rack­pore West will play Pre­sen­ta­tion Ch­agua­nas on Fri­day at the NCC from 6 pm.