PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Trinidad and Tobago needed just 34 deliveries to complete an emphatic ten-wicket win over Combined Campuses and Colleges here yesterday evening.
Resuming on the final day of their fifth round contest in the Regional Four-Day Championship, chasing a target of just 24 for victory, openers Evin Lewis (12 not out) and Adrian Barath (7) formalised the result with little fanfare.The left-handed Lewis struck a four and a six off debutant fast bowler Jermaine Levy to hasten the end for CCC and for their efforts, T&T picked up 20 points while CCC managed just two.
On Sunday’s penultimate day, Shacaya Thomas’s second consecutive hundred and half-centuries from Chadwick Walton and Kyle Corbin lifted CCC to 330 all out in their second innings in the day/night affair at Queen’s Park Oval.
Thomas, who slammed 176 against Guyana in the last round, hit 116 while Walton chipped in with a typically robust 73 and Corbin, an enterprising 65.
However, left-arm spinner Ricky Jaipaul picked up four for 56 and leg-spinner Imran Khan captured three for 97, to leave T&T with a meagre total for victory on the final day.
Earlier Sunday, CCC were dismissed for 144 in their first innings after resuming at 142 for eight, conceding a first-innings lead of 307 runs. All-rounder Raymon Reifer, unbeaten on 49 overnight, finished on 51 not out.
Khan was once again among the wickets with four for 25.
Thomas and Anthony Alleyne (24) then put on 61 for the first wicket as CCC flourished, before Thomas partnered with Corbin to add a further 121 for the second wicket.
The right-handed Thomas faced 189 balls in four hours at the crease and struck ten fours and two sixes, before falling with the score on 242.
With no runs added, captain Steven Jacobs perished without scoring but Walton took up the mantle hitting four fours and four sixes off just 111 balls, to extend CCC’s fightback.