The highly-anticipated Guyana versus Trinidad and Tobago match in the Cricket West Indies (CWI) Regional Super50 tournament was abandoned without a ball being bowled owing to heavy rain at Providence. Guyana are yet to play a match in the Super50 leg, after finishing fourth in the T20 Blaze.
This is the second time rain had the final say in a Guyana and Trinidad contest at Providence this season. Guyana will now focus on the winless Leeward Islands team on Tuesday. In the previous match, Barbados became the first team to book a semi-final spot in the CG United Women’s Super50 Cup after they defeated Jamaica by 11 runs via the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method, in a rain-affected match.
The groundsmen worked hard, but the rain had the final say (Brandon Corlette photo)
After two lengthy rain stoppages, the match was reduced to 32 overs per side. Barbados were all out in 31.4 overs for 121. Kyshona Knight led the batting with a valiant 50, which came off 75 balls and included six boundaries. Together with Hayley Matthews, she posted a 57-run partnership before Matthews fell for 16 off 20 balls with three fours. Bowling for Jamaica, Captain Stafanie Taylor had the best figures of 5.4-1-13-3 followed by Jodi-Ann Brown with 5-0-20-2.
Set a revised target of 117 for victory, Jamaica looked set to achieve the runs with ease, thanks to a few partnerships throughout their innings. Rashada Williams and Natasha McLean opened with 17 runs together, then came the highest partnership of 38 between Williams and Taylor, before the Captain was bowled by Shakera Selman for 13. Williams soldiered on, but was dismissed for 29 (41 balls, 5×4) and Chinelle Henry remained stranded on 28 not out (37 balls, 1×4,1×6) before the rains came and ended the match. At that stage, Jamaica were 106-9 in 25.3 overs.
The tournament is expected to continue today with Jamaica taking on Windward Islands from 09:30h local time at Providence.
