PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, (CMC) – Trinidad and Tobago captured the CWI Rising Stars Under-17 Men’s 50-over Championship title by defeating table leaders Barbados in the fifth and final round here on Monday.

T&T emerged victorious over Barbados by 23 runs to hand them their first loss of the tournament and prevent them from doing the double after they lifted the 2-Day title last month.
Meanwhile, the Leeward Islands, who entered the final round in second position, had their hopes of winning the competition dashed after their contest against the Windward Islands was abandoned without a ball being bowled.

Elsewhere, Jamaica defeated Guyana in their bottom-of-the-table clash.
At Gilbert Park: T&T upset pre-tournament favourites Barbados in the final round to jump from third position and lift the trophy.
Entering the fifth and decisive round on 13.8 points, behind the Leeward Islands (14 points) and Barbados (16.2 points), T&T needed a victory to have any shot of finishing in first place.
They found themselves in early trouble at 38 for three after being sent in to bat, but were rescued by a 71-run partnership between Aadi Ramsaran and Darrius Batoosingh.
Batoosingh scored 41 off 62 deliveries before he was bowled by medium pacer Zarell Harding, but Ramsaran found a worthy ally in Christiano Ramanan, with the pair adding 56 runs for the fifth wicket.

Once Ramsaran was eventually trapped lbw by Renaldo Bourne after scoring 65 off 96 balls, inclusive of five sixes, to make the score 174 for six, T&T lost their last four wickets for just 20 runs with Bourne snaring 3-44, Justin Parris 2-30 and Jahidi Hinds 2-33.

Daron Dhanraj and Ra’ed Ali Khan then carved through Barbados’ top order to leave them floundering at 49 for four in the 17th over.
T&T kept taking wickets at crucial stages and Barbados found themselves perilously placed at 100 for seven, before Raphael Lovell, who top-scored with 40, led a lower order fightback.
Along with Bourne, who made 17 and Asher Branford, who contributed 13, Barbados got within 23 runs of their target, until Ali Khan dismissed the latter to end the contest.
Dhanraj ended with figures of 3-12, Ali Khan took 3-15 and Renaldo Fournillier supported with 2-46.

At the National Cricket Centre: Jamaica secured their first win of the tournament, while leaving Guyana winless as they cruised to victory by six wickets via the Duckworth/Lewis/Stern method.
In a match that was significantly affected by rain, Guyana could only muster 118 for six in the 21 overs they were allotted.
Shamar Apple hit the top score of 31 from 30 balls, but no other batsman made more than 20, with Jamaica’s 29 extras being the next highest contributor.
Leg spinner Ramnaresh Singh was the pick of the bowlers with 3-25.

Behind an unbeaten 57 from Odane Binns, Jamaica comfortably reached 122 for four off 19.5 overs.
Binns faced 58 balls and struck three sixes and one four during his match-winning knock and together with Ryan Littleton, who scored an unbeaten 22, they shared an unbroken stand of 51 for the fifth wicket that took their side to victory.