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Pacer andrew Richardson produced a match-winning performance to steer Kingston College to their third straight Sunlight Cup cricket title, after defeating Jonathan Grant High by 51 runs in the final at Melbourne Oval yesterday.

Scores: Kingston College 260; Jonathan Grant 209.

Richardson claimed three wickets in one over as Jonathan Grant slumped from 160 for three to 161 for six, and their final four wickets went for 48 runs.

Resuming on their overnight 1-1, Jonathan Grant posted 85 runs for the first session and lost two wickets with opening batsman Gerald Morgan and Leroy Wilson, who both resumed on nought, added 29 runs before Wilson was caught in the slips by Marvin McCain off Marlon Samuels for one.

Jonathan Grant's captain Tamar Lambert then joined Morgan but after 13 runs, Morgan was brilliantly caught in the slips by Sheldon Allman off Samuels for 21.

David Harrison joined his skipper and together they posted a solid fourth-wicket partnership worth 118 runs in almost two sessions before KC's captain Sean Cousley decided to take the new ball shortly after the tea interval.

Richardson struck three vital blows to push Jonathan Grant on the back foot and put KC into a winning position after he won three leg-before decisions from umpire Baldwin Collins, two of which were controversial.

The first was against Harrison who was hit high on the thigh pad and given out with the score at 160, for a gritty 30 from 197 balls.

One ball later, Andre O'Sullivan was adjudged leg-before to Richardson without scoring after playing a stroke.

Lambert, running out of partners, brought up a well-deserved century before he miscued a delivery from spinner Lincoln Granston to give wicketkeeper Kevin Lawson an easy catch just forward of square, for his team's top score of 105, made from 251 balls and consists ten boundaries.

Richardson ended with 4 for 35 from 22 overs, Marlon Samuels 4 for 51 from 31.3 overs, while Granston and Martin Isaacs had one wicket each for 31 and 25 respectively.