A class of de­ter­mined crick­eters (Com­bined Cam­pus­es and Col­leges - CCC) with all to play for and noth­ing to lose. CCC played like cham­pi­ons and at 6.32 pm at Kens­ing­ton Oval in Bar­ba­dos, the play­ers cel­e­brat­ed their feat and af­ford­ed skip­per Car­los Brath­waite the op­por­tu­ni­ty to lift Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Re­gion­al Su­per50 crown for the first time, yes­ter­day. The tro­phy is named af­ter West In­dies leg­end Clive Lloyd.

Guyana, the favourites go­ing in­to the ti­tle-match be­came yet an­oth­er big name team to fall at the hands of a con­fi­dent CCC unit. A team that want­ed the ti­tle more and played for it. Chas­ing 205 runs for vic­to­ry the stu­dents got an open­ing part­ner­ship of 109 in just 16.3 overs that set­tled the game. Lead­ing the way was Kyle Corbin who was bril­liant. He scored 72 runs off 53 balls, with 12 fours and two six­es. Any­thing Guyana of­fered to him was dis­patched with dis­dain much to the ap­proval of the CCC fans that were at the venue.

T&T's Kjorn Ot­t­ley played his part in get­ting 45 from 84 balls with four fours. The vic­to­ry was for­malised by Brath­waite who got an un­beat­en 30 off 25 balls with four fours and one six. When the vic­to­ry came, CCC was 205 for four off 37.4 overs, which rep­re­sent­ed to­tal dom­i­nance over the op­po­si­tion.

Ear­li­er, Guyana bat­ted first but a dis­ci­plined line of bowl­ing by the CCC kept the team's much-vaunt­ed bat­ting at­tack in check. Guyana got off to the quick start reach­ing 27 with­out loss thanks to Trevon Grif­fith 22-ball 20 that in­clud­ed three fours. When Jor­dan re­moved him, Tage­nar­ine Chan­der­paul play­ing his first match of the tour­na­ment was joined by skip­per Leon John­son. While Chan­der­paul pocked and col­lect­ed the sin­gles, John­son could not repli­cate his nor­mal flu­ent bat­ting, as the CCC bowlers tight­ened the noose on him with good line and length in their of­fer­ing.

Brath­waite then got rid of his op­po­site num­ber for 14 and al­though every bats­man got starts, on­ly Chan­der­paul and the con­sis­tent Ray­mond Reifer car­ried their bats. Chan­der­paul bat­ted for 95 balls in top scored with 56 be­fore Brath­waite re­moved him. He was caught by Kyle Corbin af­ter hit­ting four fours in his stay at the crease.

Brath­waite al­so end­ed Reifer’s fight en route to fig­ures of three for 42. The left-hand­ed Reifer made 38 off 59 balls with one six. Af­ter the dam­age was done by Brath­waite, Jer­maine Levy came back in­to the at­tack to rip out the low­er or­der and fin­ished im­pres­sive­ly with four for 43.

Eight of the 11 Guyanese bats­men got in­to dou­ble fig­ures but none got the op­por­tu­ni­ty to dom­i­nate the bowl­ing and they were dis­missed five balls short of their 50-over al­lot­ment for 204 runs.

SCORE­BOARD

Jaguars vs CCC

Jaguars in­nings

T Chan­der­paul c Corbin b Brath­waite*56

T Griffth c Drakes b Jor­dan*20

L John­son c Cot­toy b Brath­waite*14

C Barn­well c Kir­ton b Cot­toy*15

R Reifer c Cot­toy b Brath­waite*38

S Ruther­ford c Y Ot­t­ley b Levy*14

A Bram­ble c Drakes b Levy*12

R Shep­herd c Drakes b Levy*8

V Per­maul c Cot­toy b Levy*0

C Pes­tano c Brath­waite b Jor­dan*13

R Lewis not out*0

Ex­tras*14

To­tal all out (49.1)*204

Fall of wk­ts: 27, 51,

88, 119, 149, 164,

182, 182, 203, 204.

Bowl­ing

A Jor­dan 7.1-0-30-2,

J Levy 10-0-43-4,

J Jagges­sar 6-0-21-0,

C Brath­waite 10-1-42-3,

K Ot­t­ley 6-0-27-0,

K Cot­toy 10-0-35-1.

CCC in­nings

K Corbin c Reifer b Pes­tano*72

K Ot­t­ley c Lewis b Shep­herd*45

A Jan­goo c Barn­well b Lewis*12

J Drakes c Bram­ble b Shep­herd*16

C Brath­waite not out*30

N Kir­ton not out*6

Ex­tras*24

To­tal for 4 wk­ts (37.4ovs)*205

Fall of wk­ts: 109,

129, 160, 189.

Bowl­ing

C Pes­tano 7-0-28-1,

R Reifer 3-0-20-0,

V Per­maul 9-1-43-0,

R Lewis 6-0-44-1,

R Shep­herd 6.4-0-0-41-2,

C Barn­well 3-1-6-0,

S Ruther­ford 3-0-14-0.

2018 Ho­n­ours

Kyle Corbin (CCC) - Man of The Match

Amir Jan­goo (CCC) - Best Wick­et­keep­er (15 catch­es) - Jef­fery Du­jon Award

Yan­nic Ot­t­ley (CCC) - Best Bowler (17 wick­ets)

Jonathan Carter (B'dos) - Best Bats­man 351 runs

Car­los Brath­waite (CCC) - Best All­rounder Award (212 runs & 13 wick­ets)

Nicholas Kir­ton (CCC) - Most Out­stand­ing Field­er

Re­sult: CCC won by 6 wk­ts

Guyana Jaguars - Run­ners-up

Cham­pi­on - CCC CWI Su­per50 cham­pi­on - Clive Lloyd Tro­phy