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Thursday, July 17, 2025

Steelpan Players slip to 2nd loss in Dream XI T10

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Ian Wason
29 days ago
20250618
FILE - Samp Army Cocrico Cavaliers Jesse Bootan scored an unbeaten half-century (91 not out).

FILE - Samp Army Cocrico Cavaliers Jesse Bootan scored an unbeaten half-century (91 not out).

DANIEL PRENTICE

Lead­ers Chica­go Steel­pan Play­ers slipped to their sec­ond loss in the sev­enth edi­tion of the Dream XI T10 Trinidad Blast on Tues­day at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do.

The loss co­in­cid­ed with Sidel Di­az’s first-ball duck. The Prison’s open­er has been in rich form of late and has been in­stru­men­tal in the Play­ers’ four wins out of six be­fore Tues­day.

The Blue Dev­ils bat­ted first and got 38 from Ra­jeev Ram­nath at the top of the or­der. The el­der broth­er of West In­dies Un­der-19 women’s cap­tain, Sama­ra, hit three six­es in his 21-ball in­nings and need­ed to step up af­ter los­ing fel­low open­er Kamil Pooran for nine.

The Blue Dev­ils were led by their cap­tain, Adri­an Ali, who spanked an un­beat­en 46, in­clud­ing five six­es and three fours in his 15-ball knock.

Blue Dev­ils closed on 139 for 4 in ten overs.

In their re­ply, Steel­pan Play­ers lost Di­az for a duck at the end of the first over with 15 runs on the board.

With no con­tri­bu­tion from the in-form Di­az, the Coop­er broth­ers stepped up, with Silus get­ting to 44 and Akeil reg­is­ter­ing 32.

But the task was too great and with­out much sup­port from the rest of the bat­ters (Mark Deyal scored 15 from 12), and the Steel­pan Play­ers could on­ly get to 109 for four, to lose by 30 runs.

Al­so on Tues­day, for­mer U-19 pac­er Liam Mam­chan took three wick­ets to lead the Scar­let Ibis Scorchers to a con­vinc­ing win over Leatherback Strik­ers and lift them in­to fifth of the six-team ta­ble, over­tak­ing Strik­ers.

The for­mer Na­pari­ma spear­head took three for 11 from his two overs to re­strict the Strik­ers to 71 for six from their 10 overs. St Lu­cia Kings all-rounder Mikkel Govia con­ced­ed just four runs from his two overs to sti­fle the flow of runs.

The Scorchers then scorched the Strik­ers' bowl­ing at­tack and rushed to 77 for two in on­ly four overs and four balls to win by eight wick­ets and 32 balls to spare.

In an­oth­er match, Jesse Bootan notched an un­beat­en half-cen­tu­ry (91 not out) to lift Samp Army Cocrico Cav­a­liers to a 10-wick­et win over So­ca Kings to sit atop of the stand­ings.

Brief scores

Bess Mo­tors Blue Dev­ils 139/4 (10 overs) (Adri­an Ali 46 not out; Ra­jeev Ram­nath 38; Clevon Kalawan 1-31; Ramesh Bri­jlal 1-32) vs Chica­go Steel­pan Play­ers 109/4 (10 overs) (Silus Coop­er 44; Akeil Coop­er 32; Ri­val­do Ram­lo­gan 2-25; Kamil Pooran 1-6). Blue Dev­ils won by 30 runs.

Leatherback Strik­ers 71/6 (10 overs) (Ter­rance Hinds 18; Vis­han Jages­sar 11 not out; Liam Mam­chan 3-11; Nicholas Ali 1-4) vs Scar­let Ibis Scorchers 77 /2 (4.4 overs) (Dex­ter Sween 31 not out; Mikkel Govia 17 not out; Ter­rance Hinds 1-12; Christo­pher Vin­cent 1-15). Scorchers won by 8 wick­ets.

So­ca Kings 116/9 (10 overs) (Sha­trughan Ram­baran 29; Akeel Mo­hammed 27; Shaaron Lewis 3-16; Jesse Bootan 2-20) vs Samp Army Cocrico Cav­a­liers 119/0 (6.3 overs) (Jesse Bootan 91 not out, Leonar­do Julien 16 not out). Cav­a­liers won by 10 wick­ets

Stand­ings

Pl*TEAM*PLD*W*L*N*PTS

1*Samp Army Cocrico Cav­a­liers*7*5*2*0*10

2*Chica­go Steel­pan Play­ers*7*4*2*1*9

3*Bess Mo­tors Blue Dev­ils *7*4*3*0*8

4*So­ca Kings*7*3*3*1*7

5*Scar­let Ibis Scorchers*7*2*4*1*4

6*Leatherback Strik­ers*7*1*5*1*2


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