Date-stamped : 04 Mar97 - 10:21
T&T surprise Windwards

ROSEAU, (Cana)-There was a big surprise on the final day  of  the
sixth round Red Stripe Cup cricket match between Trinidad and To-
bago and hosts Windward Islands at Windsor Park  here  yesterday.
But  it  had nothing to do with the outcome of the game which T&T
duly won by ten wickets before lunch to move into second place on
the points table with 48 points.

That formality commpleted, the two teams again took the field for
a hastily arranged 30-overs per innings friendly game in the time
remaining.

The home team replaced the injured Dawnley  Joseph  and  Dennison
Thomas  with  Adam  Sanford and Uzzah Pope while T&T left out the
injured David Williams and Phil Simmons to bring in  Keno   Mason
and Mukesh Persad.

Asked to get 166 off their allotted 30 overs, T&T fell short by a
mere  one run, last man Persad being lbw to Morgan with the score
on 165.

In the earlier Red Stripe encounter, the visitors had started the
day  needing  a  mere  44  runs for victory, after dismissing the
Windwards for a second innings score of 214 just before the close
on  Saturday.  They needed only 39 minutes batting to reach their
target after play started 20 minutes late because of early  morn-
ing rain.

First innings century-maker Suruj Ragoonath fittingly guided  his
team  home with a brisk unbeaten 33 not out while his 18-year-old
partner, in his first season at this level, Daren Ganga made nine
not  out.  The  28-year-old Ragoonath, whose brilliant 120 in the
first innings had been largely responsible for leading  T&T  past
the  Windwards`  first  innings  199 to a lead of 171, took three
fours off fast bowler McNeil Morgan, whose three  overs  cost  23
runs.

Ragoonath,  expectedly  named  Man-of-the-Match,  formalised  the
result  by  smashing  part-time medium pacer John Sylvester for a
four and a six to the backward square-leg boundary.  It was   the
fifth defeat in six matches for the Windwards.

Source :: Trinidad Express (http://www.trinidad.net/express)

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