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Thursday, February 20, 2025

Govia guides Masqueraders to U-23 title

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Ian Wason
23 days ago
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Masqueraders captain Jeremiah Cruickshank hoists the Championship trophy as he and his teammates celebrate after winning the TTCB U-23 Cup at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba, San Fernando, on Sunday.

Masqueraders captain Jeremiah Cruickshank hoists the Championship trophy as he and his teammates celebrate after winning the TTCB U-23 Cup at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba, San Fernando, on Sunday.

Daniel Prentice

All­rounder Mikkel Govia scored 68 on Sun­day (Jan­u­ary 26) to en­sure Mas­quer­aders cap­tured the T&T Un­der-23 Cup ti­tle over Flamin­gos, win­ning the fi­nal by four wick­ets, at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do.

The Cen­tral Sports all­rounder, who helped St Lu­cia Kings to their first Caribbean Pre­mier League ti­tle last year, hit eight fours and three six­es in a knock that on­ly used 39 balls, as the team rep­re­sent­ing North/To­ba­go suc­cess­ful­ly chased 228 to win the fi­nal.

Flamin­gos, rep­re­sent­ing Cen­tral/South-West, were put in­to bat by the North/ To­ba­go team and got a healthy start from their top or­der.

Open­ers Aaron Bankey (43) and Kyle Bal­raj (51) shared in a first-wick­et part­ner­ship that yield­ed 95 runs in 23.4 overs.

Chadeon Ray­mond struck first as the Queen’s Park bowler bowled Bal­raj. Bankey fol­lowed not long af­ter when for­mer Fa­ti­ma Col­lege cap­tain Joshua Davis had him caught by Ray­mond.

Narad Kyle Kissoon­dath scored 30 bat­ting at num­ber three but lost part­ners Ra­jeev Ram­nath (0) and Ra­jesh Ma­haraj (8) in quick time and found a part­ner in Mikeal Sinanan whose 51 from 47 balls in­ject­ed life in­to the in­nings. Sinanan hit sev­en fours and the on­ly six of the in­nings as he helped Flamin­gos to 227 all out in 50 overs.

Davis took 3 for 29 and Ray­mon grabbed 3 for 66 as they were Mas­quer­aders’ best bowlers.

The North/To­ba­go rep­re­sen­ta­tive team in its quest to reach 228, lost Ger­ard Chin (caught and bowled by Ron­nil­ster Per­reira for 14) with the score on 28, but the pair of Kyle Ram­doo and skip­per Je­re­mi­ah Cruick­shank took the Mas­quer­aders to 71 be­fore Cruick­shank of­fered Ram­nath a catch off the bowl­ing Kevin Kan­hai for 28.

Mas­quer­aders stum­bled in the mid­dle of the in­nings los­ing the wick­ets of Sachin Em­rit (15), Ram­doo (45) and Zachary Siewah (10) with the score on 134 for five in the 33rd over.

Need­ing 94 runs from 17.1 overs with five wick­ets in hand, Govia took mat­ters in­to his own hands and hit 68 from 39 balls in on­ly 55 min­utes and was dis­missed when the scores were lev­elled on 227, and well placed to se­cure the win.

The very next ball and not need­ing any time to ac­cli­ma­tise to the pitch, Olan­do James struck a four to for­mal­ly hand Mas­quer­aders the six-wick­et win and the ti­tle.

Sum­marised scores

At the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my: Flamin­gos 227 All out (50 overs) (Mikeal Sinanan 51; Kyle Bal­raj 51; Joshua Davis 3-29; Chadeon Ray­mond 3-66) vs Mas­quer­aders 231 for 6 (43.5 overs) (Mikkel Govia 68; Kyle Ram­doo 45; Kevin Kan­hai 2-43). Mas­quer­aders won by 4 wick­ets.


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