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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Diaz unbeaten half-century lifts Steelpan Players to 4th win

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Ian Wason
36 days ago
20250617
FILE - Woodland Steelpan Players Sidel Diaz scored an unbeaten 61.

FILE - Woodland Steelpan Players Sidel Diaz scored an unbeaten 61.

DANIEL PRENTICE

A ram­pant Steel­pan Play­ers, led by Sidel Di­az, romped to their fourth win of the Dream XI Trinidad T10 Blast at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Mon­day, with a nine-wick­et win over sec­ond-placed So­ca Kings.

So­ca Kings took the first strike and were buoyed by a won­der­ful start of 31 runs from just two overs for the first-wick­et part­ner­ship be­tween Tion Web­ster and De­journ Charles.

Kings lost their first wick­et, Charles, for on­ly one, but it on­ly sparked an­oth­er 30-plus part­ner­ship be­tween Web­ster and Sha­trughan Ram­baran as they took Kings to 64 for two in five overs.

Web­ster then pro­gressed to a whirl­wind 71 from 28, with four fours and eight six­es at a strike rate of 253.

Joshua James, bat­ting at num­ber four, was even more bru­tal on the bowlers as he slammed 34 from 12 balls with three six­es and three fours at a strike rate of 283.

It helped the So­ca Kings to score 139 for 4, a for­mi­da­ble to­tal that can be a chal­lenge for any bat­ting line­up.

Any bat­ting line­up, ex­cept for a line­up that in­cludes Di­az and Silus Coop­er.

The open­ers were bru­tal on any bowler and bat­ted mer­ci­less­ly.

Coop­er hit 33 from just 11 balls with two fours and four six­es with a strike rate of 300. The Play­ers took 15 runs from Red Force coach Rayad Em­rit’s first over.

Their 36-run part­ner­ship was bro­ken with the first ball of the third over as both open­ers went berserk on the bowl­ing.

It got worse when Mark Deyal joined Di­az. To­geth­er they blud­geoned the at­tack with Di­az get­ting to 61 not out from 20 balls. The Prison’s open­er pow­ered eight six­es and two fours as his bat blade was trans­formed in­to a weapon of mass de­struc­tion.

Deyal cer­tain­ly read the memo be­fore he went out to bat and con­tin­ued the ram­page with 41 not out from on­ly 15 balls at a strike rate of 273.

Steel­pan Play­ers romped to 142 for one in 7.3 overs for the com­mand­ing win to po­si­tion them­selves at the zenith of the stand­ings.

Brief scores:

So­ca Kings 136/4 (10 overs) (Tion Web­ster 71; Joshua James 34; Sidel Di­az 2-32) vs Steel­pan Play­ers 142/1 (7.3 overs) (Sidel Di­az 61 not out; Mark Deyal 41 not out; Chadeon Ray­mond 1-29). Steel­pan Play­ers won by 9 wick­ets.

Scar­let Ibis Scorchers 127/6 (10 overs) (Dex­ter Sween 47; Mikkel Govia 35; Ri­val­do Ram­lo­gan 2-3; Ricky Jaipaul 2-17) vs Bess Mo­tors Blue Dev­ils 130/2 (8 overs) (Kirt­san Kallicha­ran 46; Kamil Pooran 41; Namir Suepaul 1-8; Er­ic Gar­cia 1-31). Blue Dev­ils won by 8 wick­ets.

Leatherback Strik­ers 109/6 (10 overs) (Kevin Ram­saray 31; Ron­del Ram­lo­gan 28; Kjorn Ot­t­ley 3-22; Jesse Bootan 2-10) vs Samp Army Cocrico Cav­a­liers 110/5 (10 overs) (Sai­ba Ba­toos­ingh 42; Kjorn Ot­t­ley 23; Christo­pher Vin­cent 2-32). Cav­a­liers won by 5 wick­ets.

STAND­INGS

Pl*TEAM*P* W* L* N* PTS

1*Chica­go Steel­pan Play­ers* 6* 4* 1* 1* 9

2*Samp Army Cocrico Cav­a­liers * 6* 4* 2* 0* 8

3*So­ca Kings * 6* 3* 2* 1* 7

4*Bess Mo­tors Blue Dev­ils * 6* 3* 3* 0* 6

5*Leatherback Strik­ers* 6* 1* 4* 1* 2

6*Scar­let Ibis Scorchers* 6* 1* 4* 1* 2


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