Jaden Lea­cock’s sev­en-wick­et haul blew away T&T in the penul­ti­mate round of the Re­gion­al Un­der-17 tour­na­ment at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va, yes­ter­day.

Bar­ba­dos won the toss and elect­ed to field first and their bowlers ran through T&T’s bat­ting or­der.

The lo­cal team had half of its batts­men back in the pavil­ion with 34 runs on the board.

Isi­ah Gomez’s 18 was the high­est of the in­nings for T&T while Tariq Mo­hammed made 15.

Lea­cock end­ed with sev­en wick­ets for eight runs as T&T was rout­ed for just 78 runs in 28.2 overs.

Bar­ba­dos then sped to vic­to­ry, with open­er and cap­tain Ni­mar Bold­en hit­ting an un­beat­en 33 runs.

Al­though T&T’s bowlers got three ear­ly wick­ets which left the Ba­jans on 30 for three, an un­bro­ken stand of 51 be­tween Bold­en and Kevin Wick­ham, who scored 32 not out, saw the vis­i­tors to vic­to­ry safe­ly.

Else­where, the Wind­wards fell 13 runs short against the Lee­ward Is­lands at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my (BLCA) in Tarou­ba.

At Gilbert Park in Cal­i­for­nia, it was al­so a low-scor­ing af­fair as Ja­maica were bowled out for just 104 runs but still man­aged to dis­miss Guyana for 99 and win by five runs.

The fi­nal round of match­es on Sat­ur­day will see T&T take on the Wind­ward Is­lands at the BLCA while the Lee­wards and Guyana square off in Cou­va. Bar­ba­dos and Ja­maica will play their match at Gilbert Park.

Sum­marised Scores:

At NCC

T&T 78 (28.2) (I Gomez 18, T Mo­hammed 15, J Lea­cock 7-8) v BAR­BA­DOS 81/2 (22.4) (N Bold­en 33*, K Wick­ham 32*)

Re­sult: Bar­ba­dos won by eight wick­ets

At BLCA

LEE­WARDS 194 (49.4 ov) (C Re­ece 67, K Sut­ton 55; T Theodore 5-42) v WIND­WARDS 181/9 (50) (T Bish­op 96, J Joseph 22; A Amur­dan 3-19)

Re­sult: Lee­wards won by 13 runs

AT GILBERT PARK

JA­MAICA 104 (47.4 ov) (S Walk­er 16; S Charles 4-26, S Chait­nar­ine 3-11) v GUYANA 99 (46) ( Z Ram­sam­my 23, N Bis­su 13; J Bart­ley 2-12)

Re­sult: Ja­maica won by five runs