JavaScript is disabled in your web browser or browser is too old to support JavaScript. Today almost all web pages contain JavaScript, a scripting programming language that runs on visitor's web browser. It makes web pages functional for specific purposes and if disabled for some reason, the content or the functionality of the web page can be limited or unavailable.

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Powergen marches to second T20 Festival win

by

Ian Wason
7 days ago
20250311
Powergen Penal Cricket Club's Dejourn Charles plays a shot for four runs against Merryboys Sports Club during the TKR/TTCB Trinidad T20 Festival at the Queen's Park Oval in ST Clair in Port-of-Spain. Charles topscored with 62 runs off 30 balls for Powergen Penal Cricket Club in their 46-run win.

Powergen Penal Cricket Club's Dejourn Charles plays a shot for four runs against Merryboys Sports Club during the TKR/TTCB Trinidad T20 Festival at the Queen's Park Oval in ST Clair in Port-of-Spain. Charles topscored with 62 runs off 30 balls for Powergen Penal Cricket Club in their 46-run win.

DANIEL PRENTICE

Pow­er­gen Pe­nal Crick­et Club sped to its sec­ond win in as many match­es in the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB)/Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) T20 Fes­ti­val with a 46-run win over Mer­ry­boys Sports Club at the Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain on Sun­day (March 9).

The Pe­nal gi­ants did not seem to be miss­ing Cephas Coop­er and Ja­son Mo­hammed, who are both out on Red Force du­ty in the on­go­ing Crick­et West In­dies Cham­pi­onships, as they got to 217 for sev­en af­ter de­cid­ing to take first strike on a hard pitch with some green grass on the sur­face.

They start­ed with a brisk 46-run first-wick­et part­ner­ship be­tween Vikash Sookhai and Daniel Williams that last­ed on­ly four overs.

Sookhai struck three fours and a soli­tary six in his 19 be­fore he was the first dis­missed, bril­liant­ly caught by Ron­dell Ram­lo­gan, who com­plet­ed a run­ning catch with a sec­ond at­tempt af­ter the ball ini­tial­ly bub­bled out of his hands.

Williams, who just missed out on Red Force du­ty to Clarke Road Unit­ed’s An­to­nio Gomez when both wick­et­keep­ers cap­tain Joshua Da Sil­va and Amir Jan­goo were in Pak­istan with West In­dies in Jan­u­ary, scored an ag­gres­sive 52 from just 24 balls that in­clud­ed nine fours and two six­es in a dis­play of prop­er crick­et shots and still main­tained a strike rate of 216.

Williams was out leg-be­fore to Ja­cen Agard. The for­mer Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege San Fer­nan­do cap­tain mis­siled the white sphere in the left-han­der’s pads from around the wick­et in the sev­enth over with the score on 79.

Navin Bidaisee, who was on six at the fall of Williams, was joined by skip­per Adri­an Coop­er but the part­ner­ship pro­duced just 18 runs and end­ed with the wick­et of Coop­er who was caught by Ab­dul-Ra­heem Top­pin from a Saurav Wor­rell de­liv­ery for sev­en.

De­journ Charles then joined Bidaisee and to­geth­er they went on an 89-run part­ner­ship in sev­en overs and four balls.

Bidaisee and Charles were mix­ing ag­gres­sive pow­er-hit­ting with classy crick­et shots as they pushed Pow­er­gen from 97 for three to 186 for four. It end­ed when Bidaisee edged Justin Man­ick to wick­et­keep­er Ger­ard Chin for 51 from 35 balls with two fours and three six­es. Five balls and two runs lat­er, Man­ick in­duced an­oth­er edge, this time from Nicholas Ali and again Chin made no mis­take be­hind the three sticks for his sec­ond catch of the in­nings.

The last two overs of the in­nings, al­lowed Pow­er­gen to move from 188 to 216 for sev­en and al­so gave Charles time to move from 48 to 62 not out and set Mer­ry­boys a chal­leng­ing tar­get of 217.

Kevin Ra­mas­ry and Chin gave the Diego Mar­tin-based team a slow but steady start of 40 in six overs and four balls that end­ed when Charles had Ra­mas­ry caught by wick­et­keep­er Daniel Williams for 11.

Chin hit ex­pe­ri­enced fast bowler Uth­man Muham­mad for four through the cov­ers and the fast bowler re­spond­ed with some bounc­ers and short balls. But the 21-year-old did not shy away, but in­stead up­per cut an­oth­er short ball over slips for four runs to the third-man bound­ary.

How­ev­er, Scy­on Charles forced Chin to edge Williams for 22, end­ing an ex­cit­ing and bal­anced pe­ri­od be­tween bat and ball that would make the crick­et purists and neu­trals beam with ex­cite­ment. Three balls lat­er, Sa­hash Shwethan was caught by Nicholas Ali to give Charles his sec­ond wick­et in the over.

Cap­tain An­drew Ram­baran hit a beau­ti­ful four off the first ball he faced and that sparked hope of a Mer­ry­boys come­back. Ram­baran was on the back of some strong per­for­mances for both school and club this sea­son, as he has not scored low­er than 50 for Vish­nu Boys Hin­du Col­lege this year and reg­is­tered 145 for Mer­ry­boys in a League match in Feb­ru­ary.

When he was out at 56 for four in the tenth over, Mer­ry­boys hopes were fad­ing away. Gio­van­ni Le­tren and Justin Man­ick sought to get the match as close as pos­si­ble and their own per­son­al land­marks.

Man­ick reached his land­mark of 50 not out when he got four over mid-wick­et to fin­ish un­beat­en on 50 with five six­es while Le­tren was left strand­ed on 44 not out from 33 balls as Mer­ry­boys reached 171 for 5 to lose by 46 runs.

In the ear­li­er match on Sun­day, Vic­to­ria beat Pris­ons by 11 runs for their first points of the cam­paign.

Sum­marised scores:

VIC­TO­RIA 140 /7 (20 overs) (Riyaad Mo­hammed 33; S Jaya­suriya 33; Bryan Boodram 3-18) vs PRIS­ONS 129 /9 (20 overs) (Jerve Cum­mins 38 not out; Za­ck­ur­rie Ra­goonath 35; Jor­dan Samkaran 3-27; Du­ane Charles 3-30). Vic­to­ria won by 11 runs.

POW­ER­GEN 217 /5 (De­journ Charles 62; Daniel Williams 52; Navid Bidaisee 51; Justin Man­ick 2-33; Ja­cen Agard 2-38) vs MER­RY­BOYS 171/5 (Justin Man­ick 50 not out; Gio­van­ni Le­tren 44 not out; Scy­on Charles 3-36). Pow­er­gen won by 46 runs.


Related articles

Sponsored

Weather

PORT OF SPAIN WEATHER

Sponsored