Two of the un­like­li­est teams will bat­tle for the Colo­nial Med­ical In­sur­ance Su­per50 ti­tle when the Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes come up against the West In­dies Emerg­ing Play­ers to­day at the Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain.

When the um­pires call play at 1.30 pm, Hur­ri­canes skip­per Ja­hamar Hamil­ton will be look­ing for an­oth­er stel­lar per­for­mance from his boys, as they did to top­ple favourites T&T Red Force in the semis on Fri­day, as they seek to be­come the first team to get their name in­scribed on the new cup.

Hamil­ton him­self led from the front with a bril­liant un­beat­en 78 off 34 balls to take his team to a come-from-be­hind win in the semi­fi­nal against the Red Force and he is al­so con­fi­dent go­ing in­to the fi­nals.

“We are play­ing good crick­et and we have been work­ing hard and fight­ing as you saw against the Red Force,” Hamil­ton told Guardian Me­dia on the even of the all-im­por­tant sea­son fi­nale.

“We need that one big game again and we will be able to take the ti­tle. We have to go in­to the match look­ing to play to our strengths and we will pre­vail once we do this. The Emerg­ing Team had played well this sea­son and we know that they will be com­ing hard at us look­ing for the ti­tle. We have had some stand­out per­for­mances and we are look­ing for the ex­pe­ri­enced men to come for­ward again in or­der for us to end on top.”

The West In­dies Emerg­ing Play­ers took care of Bar­ba­dos Bar­ba­dos Pride by three wick­ets in a low scor­ing semi­fi­nal on Thurs­day and will hope that their bat­ting can click for this ti­tle match. Their bowl­ing has been their strength through­out the tour­na­ment but their bat­ting has been short at times.

Skip­per Yan­nic Cari­ah said: “The team spir­it in our camp has been key for us so far. We have stuck to­geth­er and sup­port­ed each oth­er and has got­ten through many dif­fi­cult pe­ri­ods. The boys are all the bet­ter for it lead­ing in­to the fi­nals and we are anx­ious to play this match.

“Our goal lead­ing in­to this tour­na­ment was to reach far and we have done it. One fi­nal hur­dle and we will be the cham­pi­ons. The boys know that and they will be ready to de­liv­er at match time.”

TEAMS:

WI Emerg­ing Play­ers: Yan­nic Cari­ah (Cap­tain), Ki­mani Melius (Vice-Cap­tain), Ca­marie Boyce, Roland Cato, Joshua Da Sil­va, Do­minic Drakes, Justin Greaves, Keon Hard­ing, Leonar­do Ju­lian, Jer­maine Levy, Ash­mead Nedd, Gidron Pope, Jay­den Seales, Kevin Sin­clair.

Lee­wards Hur­ri­canes: Jah­mar Hamil­ton (c), Kea­cy Car­ty, Col­in Archibald, Ja­son Camp­bell, Quin­ton Boatswain, Amir Jan­goo, Montcin Hodge, Yan­nick Leonard, Sheno Berridge, Akeem Saun­ders, De­von Thomas, Keiran Pow­ell, Ter­rence Warde.