IAN WA­SON

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Jay­den Seales' re­turn to ac­tion was in a los­ing ef­fort as the right-arm fast-bowler turned out for the Para­keet Buc­ca­neers against the So­ca Kings in the Dream 11 T10 Trinidad Blast at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do, on Fri­day.

The Buc­ca­neers were sent in to bat first and quick­ly, they lost Evin Lewis (0) by the run out route, with­out fac­ing a ball, at the end of the first over. They got a 20-run part­ner­ship be­tween Kiedel Glas­gow (14) and Kjorn Ot­t­ley (12) but the Buc­ca­neers were plunged in­to fur­ther prob­lems when they lost wick­ets con­sis­tent­ly to be placed in a po­si­tion of 38 for five in the sixth over.

It was at this point that Seales came to the crease, as he top scored with 20 from 14 balls, with just the one four and one six. He had good sup­port from Er­ic Gar­cia. The young Queen's Park II all­rounder scored 13 from 11 balls to sup­port the West In­dies bowler.

With their late ef­forts, the Para­keet Buc­ca­neers were able to get to 82 for six. An­sil Bha­gan took 2-7 and Nicholas Ali claimed 2-11.

In re­ply, De­journ Charles brought his form over from the re­cent North Zone T20 Tour­na­ment and the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) Pre­mier­ship T20 Fes­ti­val. The tall left-han­der plunged three fours and two six­es, as he con­tin­ued to show his lack of re­spect to bowlers.

He shared in a 72-run part­ner­ship with Kirstan Kallicha­ran who scored 34 not out in a good in­nings that saw five fours in 25 balls, as the So­ca Kings got to 83 for two in 8.2 overs for the com­fort­able win as they kick off their cam­paign on the fourth edi­tion of the Dream 11 T10 Trinidad Blast.

Seales fin­ished with 1-22 from his two overs.

SCORES

Para­keet Buc­ca­neers 82/6 (10 overs) (Jay­den Seales 20 not out, An­sil Bha­gan 2-7, Nicholas Ali 2-11) vs So­ca Kings 83/2 (8.2 overs) (De­journ Charles 35, Kirstan Kallicha­ran 34 not out, Christo­pher Vin­cent 1-5, Jay­den Seales 1-22). So­ca Kings won by eight wick­ets.

Steel­pan Play­ers 93/5 (10 overs) (De­nesh Ramdin 38, Stephawn Solomon 2-12) vs Blue Dev­ils 94/4 (9.5 overs) (Adri­an Ali 29, Ewart Nichol­son 21 not out, Daniel Williams 21, An­der­son Phillip 2-17). Blue Dev­ils won by six wick­ets.