Ganga guides T&T to victory

ST AUGUSTINE, Trinidad (CMC):

An unbeaten 85 from Daren Ganga upstaged newcomer Carlos Brathwaite to lead Trinidad & Tobago to a two-wicket victory over Combined Campuses & Colleges in the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional Four-day Tournament yesterday.

Ganga struck 11 fours and one six from 114 balls in close to 3 1/2 hours of batting, as T&T, set 218 for victory, reached their target about 45 minutes before the lunch interval on the final day of their second-round match at the UWI Sports & Physical Education Complex.

The T&T captain defied a devastating spell from Brathwaite to formalise the result with a square cut through backward point for the last of his boundaries to take T&T to 221 for eight at the finish.

Brathwaite, playing in his maiden first-class match, finished with seven wickets for 90 runs from 25.3 overs that put the early skids on the T&T chase.

The result meant that T&T collected 12 points and increased their tally for the season to 18 and CCC gained no points and remained on 12.

COMBINED CAMPUSES & COLLEGES 1st innings 131

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO 1st innings 164

COMBINED CAMPUSES & COLLEGES 2nd Innings 250

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO 2nd innings (target: 218)

(overnight 134 for five)

L. Simmons c Kantasingh b Brathwaite 28J. Guillen c F. Reifer b Brathwaite 41R. Morton b Brathwaite 0D. Ganga not out 85A. Kanhai c R. Reifer b Brathwaite 5+D. Ramdin lbw b Brathwaite 0I. Khan c Bonner b Brathwaite 20R. Emrit c Bonner b Brathwaite 11D. Mohammed c Phillips b Austin 12A. Jaggernauth not out 3Extras: (b6, lb1, w3, nb6) 16TOTAL: (8 wkts, 62.3 overs) 221

Fall of wkts: 1-74, 2-74, 3-77, 4-85, 5-93, 6-151, 7-179, 8-193

Bowling: Brathwaite 25.3-3-90-7 (w1); Moore 9-1-36-0 (nb1, w2); Kantasingh 1-0-12-0; R. Reifer 2-0-13-0; Austin 14-5-35-1 (nb5); McClean 11-3-28-0

Result: T&T won by two wickets

Points: T&T 12, CCC zero

Man of the Match: D. Ganga (T&T)

Umpires: R. Illingworth, P. Nero

Match referee: H. Bruce

Reserve umpire: A. Sanowar