The Trinidad and To­ba­go Le­gions used a bal­anced bowl­ing at­tack to sti­fle the Bar­ba­dos Pel­i­cans and emerge vic­to­ri­ous by 64 runs in their high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed West In­dies Break­out League clash here at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Fri­day.

Tout­ed as two of the pre-tour­na­ment favourites, the match nev­er lived up to its billing with the Pel­i­cans be­ing bowled out for a pal­try 101 in 19.3 overs, well short of the Le­gions’ com­pet­i­tive score of 165 for eight from their 20 overs.

Jo­hann Layne (2-7), Navin Bidaisee (2-11), Mikkel Govia (2-14) and Joshua James (2-21), all de­liv­ered stingy spells to help rout the Pel­i­cans, who on­ly had three bats­men reach dou­ble fig­ures.

The dan­ger­ous Kadeem Al­leyne, Shaqkere Par­ris and Kevin Wick­ham were all back in the pavil­ion in a flash as the Pel­i­cans slipped to 20 for three ear­ly on.

Ny­eem Young tried his best to re­sus­ci­tate the in­nings with a pedes­tri­an 33 from 36 balls, while open­er Leniko Bouch­er made 23 off 17 de­liv­er­ies, but they failed to ig­nite a spark as wick­ets con­tin­u­ous­ly fell around them.

By the time Young lost his wick­et to leave the Pel­i­cans tot­ter­ing at 78 for six in the 14th over, the match was es­sen­tial­ly over.

Num­ber nine bat­ter Zis­han Mo­tara was the on­ly oth­er bats­man to score in dou­ble dig­its, scor­ing 11.

Ear­li­er, the home side was boost­ed by its mid­dle or­der af­ter they found them­selves in a spot of both­er at 68 for five at the be­gin­ning of the 12th over.

But Joshua James slammed 39 from 20 balls with four six­es and one four, Jyd Goolie scored an un­beat­en 38 off 27 de­liv­er­ies with three fours and two six­es, and Navin Bidaisee made 24 to help the Le­gions fin­ish with a flour­ish.

Ju­nior Sin­clair (2-17), Mo­tara (2-22) and Ra­mon Sim­monds (2-46), each took two wick­ets for the Pel­i­cans.

SUM­MARISED SCORES

T&T LE­GIONS 165-8 in 20 overs (Joshua James 39, Jyd Goolie 38 not out, Amir Jan­gooo 32, Navin Bidaisee 24; Ju­nior Sin­clair 2-17, Zis­han Mo­tara 2-22, Ra­mon Sim­monds 2-46) vs BAR­BA­DOS PEL­I­CANS 101 in 19.3 overs (Ny­eem Young 33, Leniko Bouch­er 23, Zis­han Mo­tara 11; Jo­hann Layne 2-7, Navin Bidaisee 2-11, Mikkel Govia 2-14, Joshua James 2-21).

<Thun­der de­feat­ed Ti­tans by six wick­ets>

The Lee­ward Is­lands Thun­der de­feat­ed Ja­maica Ti­tans by six wick­ets in the third match of the West In­dies Break­out League here at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do, yes­ter­day.

JA­MAICA TI­TANS 123-6 in 20 overs (Jor­dan John­son 40, Kirk McKen­zie 34, An­drew Ram­baran 16, Leroy Lugg 14; An­der­son Ma­hase 3-16) vs

LEE­WARD IS­LANDS THUN­DER 127-4 in 16.4 overs (Kofi James 39, Kari­ma Gore 34 not out, Giovente De­peiza 17 not out, Jamie Cor­nelius 16, Jew­el An­drew 11; Jeav­or Roy­al 2-14, Raa­mal Lewis 2-15).

(CMC)