PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Trinidad and Tobago’s left-arm spinner Nairon Motilal grabbed the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award as the curtain came down on the 2009 CLICO West Indies Under-15 cricket tournament on Sunday night.

Champions Jamaica featured prominently in the awards ceremony but the main individual honour went to U-15 rookie Motilal, who mesmerised his opponents with his chinaman and googly deliveries.

Motilal won two bowling prizes, most wickets and best bowling average after sending down 40 overs with eight maidens and taking 15 wickets at an average of 7.06 runs apiece and economy rate of 2.65.

The batting prize for most runs was shared between Jamaican Oshane Walters and Akeem Saunders, of the Leeward Islands, who both scored 160 runs at an average of 40.

Jamaican Delbert Gayle took the batting average award at 77, gathering 154 runs in five innings. He was not-out three times.

Barbados captain Shai Hope won the best wicketkeeper award.

Motilal was also MVP for T&T and other Team MVP awards went to Gayle (Jamaica), Hope (Barbados), Kadier Nedd (Windwards), Daren Hobson (Leewards), and Chandrapaul Hemraj (Guyana).

Jamaica emerged champions – for the fifth time overall and third in the last seven years – on Sunday after a seven-wicket victory over the Windward Islands at the Sir Frank Worrell UWI Ground.

They finished joint top of the table – on eight points – with hosts T&T but snatched the title because they had beaten the home side in their head-to-head meeting in the first round.

Guyana finished third on six points and Barbados, who handed Jamaica their only loss in the tournament, ended fourth on five points.

The Jamaicans were also champions in 1996, 2003, and 2006 and this latest triumph is the third in regional cricket in recent weeks as their seniors won the George Headley/Everton Weekes Trophy for the West Indies first-class championship and their U-19 girls emerged champions of the West Indies Youth women’s tournament in St Lucia this past weekend.