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Sunday, March 16, 2025

Sirju shines in Clark Road win over Prisons

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Ian Wason
2 days ago
20250315
Clarke Road United's Shian Brathwaite, right, fist bumps Shatrughan Rambaran after hitting a boundary against Prison Service Cricket Team during the TKR/TTCB Trinidad T20 Festival at the Queen's Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain. Clarke Road won by seven wickets.

Clarke Road United's Shian Brathwaite, right, fist bumps Shatrughan Rambaran after hitting a boundary against Prison Service Cricket Team during the TKR/TTCB Trinidad T20 Festival at the Queen's Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain. Clarke Road won by seven wickets.

DANIEL PRENTICE

Clarke Road Unit­ed's Ker­wyn Sir­ju was too good for Pris­ons in the T&T Crick­et Board/Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TTCB/TKR) T20 Fes­ti­val on Thurs­day at the Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain. The spin­ner took three wick­ets to re­strict Pris­ons to 110 all out in 16.1 overs.

Sidel Di­az (32), Bryan Boodram (23 not out) and Jerve Cum­mins (19) were the on­ly Pris­ons’ bats­men to reach dou­ble fig­ures as the Clarke Road bowlers proved too much for the team play­ing in their first sea­son in the TTCB top flight.

Sir­ju fol­lowed up on the good work by Shi­va Sankar, who took two wick­ets at the top of the or­der, to re­move Keron Kan­hai and Rick­son Mani­ram to leave them reel­ing at 41 for two. Mark Deyal and Sha­trughan Ram­baran al­so ac­count­ed for the wick­ets of Di­az and Jerve Cum­mins be­fore Sirhju mopped up the low­er or­der with the wick­ets of Ri­car­do Sam, Step­phan Mc Pher­son and Kristoff Lewis to go with the three run outs in the in­nings.

Clarke Road went about the chase of 111 in a usu­al man­ner. Nicholas Sookdeosingh went about his bat­ting as if the tar­get was big­ger. He hit sev­en fours in his knock of 31 that last­ed just 20 balls.

He was sup­port­ed by Deyal who scored 12. Brath­waite, bat­ting at num­ber three, scored 42 from 30 balls with sev­en fours to guide Clarke Road to 113 for 3 for their sec­ond win in as many match­es.

In the oth­er match of the evening, Sri Lankan She­han Jaya­suriya and Guyanese Ak­shaya Per­saud starred for Vic­to­ria in their 66-run win over Mer­ry­boys.

Jaya­suriya pro­duced a half-cen­tu­ry (71) and Per­saud scored 43 as Vic­to­ria reached 193 for 8 from their 20 overs.

In re­ply, the Diego Mar­tin-based Mer­ry­boys were re­strict­ed to 127 for eight from their 20 overs to lose by 66 runs.

Sum­marised scores:

Vic­to­ria 193 /8 (20 overs) (She­han Jaya­suriya 71; Ak­shaya Per­saud 43; Daniel Os­ouna 2-25; Justin Man­ick 2-32) vs Mer­ry­boys 127 /8 (20 overs) (Ron­dell Ram­lo­gan 21; Avinash Ma­habirs­ingh 2-3; Jor­dan Samkaran 2-25; She­han Jaya­suriya 2-25). Vic­to­ria won by 66 runs.

Pris­ons 110 all out (16.1 overs) (Sidel Di­az 32; Bryan Boodram 23 not out; Ker­wyn Sir­ju 3-28, S Sankar 2-14 ) vs Clarke Road 113/3 (13.4 overs) (S Brath­waite 42 not out; Nicholas Sookdeosingh 31; S Mc Pher­son 2-25). Clarke Road won by 7 wick­ets.


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