BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos–For­mer West In­dies bats­man, Ryan Hinds, is one of six Bar­ba­di­ans in­clud­ed in a 14-man Com­bined Cam­pus­es and Col­leges Ma­roon­ers squad for the Re­gion­al Su­per50 lat­er this month.

The 35-year-old, who played 15 Tests and 14 One-Day In­ter­na­tion­als, will serve as a play­er-coach in the unit which will be led by fel­low Bar­ba­di­an Ja­mal Smith.

Ex­pe­ri­enced open­er Kyle Corbin, who has played 56 first class games, has been in­clud­ed along with Aaron Jones, Keon Hard­ing Ray­mond By­noe as the oth­er Bar­ba­di­ans in the squad.

Space has been found for the Trinida­di­an trio of Amir Jan­goo, Mark Deyal and Vikash Mo­han along with Ja­maicans Cas­sius Bur­ton, Christo­pher Pow­ell and Jer­maine Levy.

The squad is com­plet­ed by St Lu­cian left-arm spin­ner Lar­ry Ed­ward, who has played three first class games for Wind­ward Is­lands Vol­ca­noes and An­tiguan Ni­no Hen­ry, who played two games for CCC in last year's Su­per50.

CCC will play in Group B along­side last year's los­ing fi­nal­ists Bar­ba­dos Pride, Ja­maica Scor­pi­ons, Guyana Jaguars and ICC Amer­i­c­as.

Group A, mean­while, com­pris­es reign­ing cham­pi­ons Trinidad & To­ba­go Red Force, Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes, Vol­ca­noes, West In­dies Un­der-19s and Eng­lish coun­ty side, Kent Spit­fires.

The Su­per50 runs from Jan­u­ary 24 to Feb­ru­ary 18 in An­tigua and Bar­ba­dos.

SQUAD � Ja­mal Smith (cap­tain), Kyle Corbin, Aaron Jones, Ryan Hinds, Keon Hard­ing, Ray­mond By­noe, Amir Jan­goo, Mark Deyal, Vikash Mo­han, Cas­sius Bur­ton, Christo­pher Pow­ell, Jer­maine Levy, Lar­ry Ed­ward, Ni­no Hen­ry.

Brath­waite shines with ball as Thun­der wins again

SYD­NEY, Aus­tralia–West In­dies all-rounder Car­los Brath­waite was bril­liant with the ball as Syd­ney Thun­der won their third straight with an eight-wick­et tri­umph over crosstown ri­vals, Syd­ney Six­ers, to keep alive their hopes of a play­off spot in the Big Bash League yes­ter­day.

Play­ing in on­ly his sec­ond game since ar­riv­ing to re­place in­jured Windies team­mate, An­dre Rus­sell, the Bar­ba­di­an snatched three for 21 from four overs of clever medi­um pace to help re­strict Six­ers to a pal­try 99 for nine, in front of near­ly 40 000 at the Syd­ney Crick­et Ground.

In re­ply, the reign­ing cham­pi­ons cruised to their tar­get with ten overs re­main­ing, to con­tin­ue their resur­gence fol­low­ing a four-game los­ing streak to open the tour­na­ment.

Opt­ing to bat first, Six­ers were quick­ly in trou­ble when they lost open­ers Michael Lumb (11) and top-scor­er Daniel Hugh­es (20) cheap­ly to be 36 for two in the sixth over.

Brath­waite and leg-spin­ner Fawad Ahmed, who was out­stand­ing with four for 14 from his four overs, then com­bined to wreck the in­nings.

Right-armer Brath­waite claimed wick­et­keep­er Brad Haddin (4), caught at mid-wick­et in the 10th over; Jo­han Botha bowled for three, play­ing across the line in the 14th over be­fore hav­ing Nathan Ly­on caught in the deep for nine in the 18th over.

Open­er Kur­tis Pat­ter­son then stroked an un­beat­en 38 from 26 balls in a 54-run open­ing stand with James Vince who hit 28, to put Thun­der in charge.

When Vince and Shane Wat­son (4) fell in the sixth over to pac­er Sean Ab­bott, Pat­ter­son and Ben Rohrer, un­beat­en on 26, put on 41 in an un­bro­ken third wick­et stand to see their side home.

Sam­my signs for Jaguars&nb­sp;in Hong Kong Blitz

HONG KONG–Two-time Twen­ty20 World Cup-win­ning cap­tain, Dar­ren Sam­my, will turn out for Hung Hom JD Jaguars in the sec­ond edi­tion of the Hong Kong T20 Blitz in March.

Jaguars team coach Afza­al Haider con­firmed Sam­my's par­tic­i­pa­tion, point­ing out that he was ex­pect­ed to be a ma­jor draw­ing card for the Twen­ty20 show­piece.

"Dar­ren Sam­my is a stal­wart of the game. His cel­e­bra­tions with the paci­fi­er and cham­pi­on dances have won him count­less fans across the globe," Haider said.

"More than that, he is a very as­tute crick­eter, who can con­tribute with the bat, ball and strate­gies."

The 33-year-old Sam­my led West In­dies to the cap­ture of the T20 World Cup in Sri Lan­ka in 2012 and then again last April when the Caribbean side beat Eng­land in a dra­mat­ic fi­nal in Mum­bai. He is a for­mer Test and one-day cap­tain who was last Au­gust sacked as Windies T20 cap­tain and dropped from the squad.

Sam­my re­cent­ly turned out in the Bangladesh Pre­mier League for Ra­jshahi Kings where his cap­tain­cy proved piv­otal in tak­ing them to the fi­nal.

He will be one of sev­er­al stars set to play in the March 8-12 tour­na­ment with Sri Lan­ka's Ku­mar San­gakkara sign­ing for Galaxy Glad­i­a­tors Lan­tau and Pak­istan's Shahid Afri­di lin­ing up for Kowloon Can­tons.

Tour­na­ment di­rec­tor Max Ab­bott said Sam­my's ar­rival would be a tremen­dous lift for the show­piece.

"It's been a huge week for the tour­na­ment with Afri­di, San­gakkara and now Dar­ren Sam­my sign­ing on for the Blitz," Ab­bott said.

"Cred­it to the Jaguars for bring­ing such a pop­u­lar play­er that is one of the most en­ter­tain­ing char­ac­ters in world crick­et. It's go­ing to be a huge boost for crick­et in Hong Kong."

Hong Kong Is­land Unit­ed and City Kaitak are the oth­er two teams in the tour­na­ment. (CMC)