Central Sports ended Queen’s Park Cricket Club's (QPCC) I reign of the T&T Cricket Board T20 Festival Premiership I with an eight-wicket win over the Tragarete road team at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba, San Fernando, on Friday.
Red Force white ball opener Kjorn Ottley was a man on a mission as he led the Felicity team to the win in a semifinal reduced to eight overs due to rain.
QPCC batted first and with no time to waste, Amir Jangoo was runout for one in the first over. Queen’s Park obviously looking to take advantage of every available run, they then got a 30-run partnership in which Tion Webster (19) dominated with Darren Bravo who went on to top score with 25.
The remaining Queen’s Park batsmen’s obvious mandate was to get as many runs as possible even as they lost wickets in doing so. Queen’s Park managed to reach 82 for 8 in their eight overs.
Apart from Bravo’s 25 and Webster’s 19, no one else got to double figures. Mark Deyal was the best bowler for Central Sports with four for 26, while Barbadian Roshon Primus got two for 16.
Central Sports lost Kamil Pooran (0) in the second over at seven for one, but that was just the signal for Ottley to explode.
The left-hander dominated with a 65-run partnership with Barbadian Roshan Primus (16) and was dismissed with the score on 72. But by then Ottley had already hit 54 runs from just 29 balls, laced with six sixes and two fours. Then it was up to Primus and Jesse Bootan (6) to finish the job.
Bootan completed the win with a huge six over the bowler’s (Webster) head as they reached 87 for two with two balls to spare.
Central Sports will play the winner of Clarke Road and Powergen. That match was yet to begin at press time.
BRIEF SCORES:
Friday
Premiership I Semi-final 1
Queen’s Park One 82/8 (8 overs) (Darren Bravo 25, Tion Webster 19, Mark Deyal 4-26, Roshan Primus 2-16) vs Central Sports 87/2 (7.4 overs) (Kjorn Ottley 54, Dexter Sween 2-15). Central Sports won by eight wickets.
Thursday
Premiership II
Semi-Final 1
Premier League U-19 137/5 (20 overs) (Justin Jagessar 30. Joshua Davis 27 not out, Triston Singh 2-25) vs HKL Aranguez 100/9 (20 overs) (Dion Ferrier 22, Safraz Lalloo 22, Zachary Siewah 3-17). Premier League U-19 won by 37 runs.
Semifinal 2
Defence Force 145/6 (20 overs) (Jordan Samkaran 54, Andre Medina 46 not out, Teshawn Castro 3-13) vs Marchin Partriots 149 / 2 (17.3 overs) (Adrian Ali 70, Hakeem Mitchell 52 not out, Jordan Samkaran 1-20, Andre Medina 1-36). Marchin Sports won by 8 wickets.
TODAY'S FINALS
Premiership II
Premier League U-19 vs Marchin Sports, 3 pm
Premiership I
Central Sports vs Clarke Road/Powergen, 7 pm
