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Thursday, February 27, 2025

Simmons gives Hillview third title

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"Mozart of pan" Len "Boogsie" Sharpe receives his Humming Bird (Gold) national award from President George Maxwell Richards, left, on Independence Day at President's House. Looking on at right is Prime Minister Patrick Manning.  Photo: Andre Alexander

"Mozart of pan" Len "Boogsie" Sharpe receives his Humming Bird (Gold) national award from President George Maxwell Richards, left, on Independence Day at President's House. Looking on at right is Prime Minister Patrick Manning. Photo: Andre Alexander

De­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Hillview Col­lege com­plet­ed a sea­son tre­ble when they beat Iere High School by five wick­ets in the fi­nal of the Pow­er­gen Sec­ondary Schools Crick­et League Daren Gan­ga In­ter­col T20 com­pe­ti­tion at Guaracara Park, Pointe-a-Pierre on Fri­day night. Man of the Match An­tho­ny Sim­mons' hero­ic 39 off 24 balls made the vic­to­ry pos­si­ble for Hillview, who had al­ready won the 50-Over League and Su­per Six­es ti­tles. Chas­ing 131 for vic­to­ry, Hillview were cruis­ing at 88 for three in the 13th over when Bran­don Ram­di­al (6) and open­er Du­ane Cock­burn (47 off 43) were dis­missed off con­sec­u­tive balls. That brought in Sim­mons, who went on to dom­i­nate an un­bro­ken 43-run stand with Je­re­my Solozano (4 no) to take his school home with sev­en balls to spare. His in­nings in­clud­ed two six­es and two fours.

Iere's to­tal of 130 for six was made pos­si­ble by num­ber three Zachary Ra­goonath, who cleared the rope six times dur­ing his vi­o­lent 76 off 46 balls. Iere were in trou­ble at 64 for four af­ter 12 overs when Jeron Joseph (14 no) joined Ra­goonath for a 49 run part­ner­ship last­ing 6.1 overs. Af­ter Ra­goonath was dis­missed with the score on 114 at the start of the penul­ti­mate over, Iere man­aged to add an­oth­er 16 runs. The wick­ets were shared among Ra­jiv Singh (1-32), Idrees Mo­hammed (1-22), Bri­an Christ­mas (1-23) and cap­tain Shaquille Al­lick (1-18). Speak­ing to the Guardian yes­ter­day, Hillview coach Richard Kel­ly said his play­ers were still on a high fol­low­ing the vic­to­ry. "It was fan­tas­tic. It's what we set out to do at the start of the sea­son and it's great to fi­nal­ly ac­com­plish it. Some of the play­ers were call­ing me at one o'clock In the morn­ing af­ter­wards. That's how ex­cit­ed they were."

Score­card

Iere High School In­nings

S Boodram c Ra­jah b B Christ­mas 14

S Kat­wa­roo c A Christ­mas b Mo­hammed 11

Z Ra­goonath c Mo­hammed b Singh 76

S Ar­joon c Ram­di­al b Al­lick 6

K Ram­lal run out (Bed­doe) 0

J Joseph not out 14

V Ma­haraj run out 0

R Nar­ine not out 7

Ex­tras (1w, 1lb) 2

To­tal (6 wick­ets, 20 overs) 130

DNB: K Her­cules, D Nand­lal, S Mo­hammed.

Wick­ets at: 1-24, 2-38, 3-45, 4-64, 5-114, 6-116.

Bowl­ing: R Singh 4-0-32-1, I Mo­hammed 4-0-22-1, A Sim­mons 3-0-16-0, B Christ­mas 4-0-23-1, S Al­lick 3-0-18-1, A Christ­mas 1-0-11-0, I Ra­jah 1-0-7-0.

Hillview Col­lege

In­nings (Tar­get 131)

D Cock­burn lbw Boodram 47

I Ra­jah b Ma­haraj 7

B Christ­mas c Boodram b Ma­haraj 0

S Al­lick c Nar­ine b Boodram 17

B Ram­di­al c Kat­wa­roo b Her­cules 6

J Solozano not out 4

A Sim­mons not out 39

Ex­tras (5w, 1b, 5lb) 11

To­tal (5 wick­ets, 18.5 overs) 131

DNB: I Mo­hammed, R Singh, A Christ­mas, J Bed­doe.

Fall of Wick­ets: 1-17, 2-20,

3-71, 4-88, 5-88.

Bowl­ing: V Ma­haraj 3.5-0-29-2, D Nand­lal 4-0-23-0, R Nar­ine 2-0-26-0, S Boodram 4-0-22-2, K Her­cules 4-0-16-1, S Ar­joon 1-0-9-0.


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