Uva Next and T&T foiled by rain
Trinidad and Tobago and Uva Next had to settle for a no-result after
rain intervened in their Champions League Twenty20 match at Bidvest
Wanderers in Johannesburg on Thursday.
Trinidad and Tobago did have time to bat and the team from the
Caribbean managed a formidable 181 for three but Sri Lanka’s Uva Next
faced just one ball in their reply to reach zero for one before heavy
rain meant that the game had to be called off. The no-result had no
effect on the competition as Trinidad and Tobago and Uva Next had both
been eliminated from the competition already and were playing for pride
only in their final qualification match.
Darren Bravo and Denesh Ramdin had combined for an unbroken 95-run
fourth-wicket partnership off 10.2 overs for Trinidad and Tobago. The
left-handed Bravo ended not out on 54 off 42 balls while Ramdin was
unbeaten on 50 off 31 balls.
Both men combined conventional cricket stokes with a few innovative
shots thrown in for good measure and their attacking game-plan paid off
as they scored 67 runs off the last five overs of the innings. Ramdin’s
best stroke was undoubtedly a wonderful square drive for six off the
bowling of paceman Umar Gul as he and Bravo both brought up their
half-centuries in the last over of the innings. Bravo reached his fifty
off 41 balls and he reached the landmark with a thick inside edge off of
Gul that galloped off to third man for the ninth four of his knock.
Ramdin’s fifty came up off 31 with deliveries with six fours and a
six as he notched up his half-century off the last ball of the innings.
Uva Next had won the toss and elected to bowl first on a well-grassed
pitch which provided a touch of movement for the new-ball bowlers.
Opening batsman William Perkins made a lightning start to the innings
with a dashing 32 off 15 balls with four fours and two sixes over
long-off but the right-hander’s burgeoning innings was cut short in the
fifth over when he was bowled by a quicker ball from off-spinner
Sachithra Senanayake.
Perkins’s opening partner Lendl Simmons made a more measured 34 off
30 balls, with three fours and two sixes, before he was bowled through
the gate by Gul before Bravo and Ramdin took control of the innings.
Uva Next faced just one ball in their innings but it was enough time
for Dilshan Munaweera (0) to get out after he slashed a delivery from
seamer Shannon Gabriel down to the third man fielder.
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