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ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago – The UWI T20 2015 Tournament concluded last Saturday, April 5, with Club Crusoe of Tobago, led by Captain Navin Stewart winning against FC Clarke Road.

Clarke Road used all of their 20 overs to tally 137, and Club Crusoe comfortably went past their score in 18 overs, with 138 for six wickets.  Leron Lezama and Ewart Nicholson both scored 58, with Derone Davis, 4/32, picking up the most CC wickets.  Clarke Road’s Yannic Ottley had struck 32 runs to be top scorer, with Antonio Greenidge, next at 23. The Crusoe bowlers, Zard Clarke, 3/17, and Vickash Rampersad, 2/25, were just too good for them.

Club Crusoe continued to dominate at the Man-of-the-Match Awards with Navin Stewart winning Man-of-the-Series and the Biggest Six Prelims, and Leron Lezama winning Man-of-the-Match of the Finals. FC Clarke Road’s Derone Davis was awarded Biggest Six Post-Prelims.

The 2015 tournament started off with twelve teams, playing a preliminary round, and quarterfinal round, which took place in January and semi-final round with undefeated teams progressing to the final, for a cash prize of TT$30,000. Matches took place at the Sir Frank Worrell Cricket Ground of the UWI Sport and Physical Education Centre (SPEC).

Other winners of the Man-of-the-Match Awards are as follows:

1.       Atiba Allert (MB) – MerryBoys beat Defence Force

2.       Kerwin Gonzales (DF) – Defence Force beat UWICC

3.       Aneil Kanhai (MB) – MerryBoys beat UWICC

4.       Nicholas Brown (UTT) – UTT beat Esmeralda

5.       Marcus Daniel (CC) – Club Crusoe beat UTT

6.       Teshawn Castro (E) – Esmeralda beat Club Crusoe

7.       Akeem Alvarez (MR) – Munroe Road beat Caldrac

8.       Miguel Mahabir (Cal) – Caldrac beat Moosai

9.       Isaiah Rajah (M) – Moosai beat Munroe Rd

10.   Latchana Ranga (CR) – Clarke Road beat Victoria United

11.   Kissoondath Magram (Com) – Comets beat Victoria United

12.   No man of the match: Clarke Road beat Comets in First Ever Bowl Off of UWI T20

Photos of this epic event can be found on the UWI St. Augustine Flickr page.

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About the UWI T20 Cricket Tournament

The 2015 tournament had twelve teams, playing a preliminary round, and quarterfinal round, which took place in January and semi-final round with undefeated teams progressing to the final, for a cash prize of TT$30,000. There were cash prizes for all teams progressing beyond the preliminary round, and prizes for man-of-the-match, “big sixes” and special bowling performances. 

About The UWI

Since its inception in 1948, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged, regional University with well over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest, most longstanding higher education provider in the Commonwealth Caribbean, with four campuses in Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Open Campus. The UWI has faculty and students from more than 40 countries and collaborative links with 160 universities globally; it offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Food & Agriculture, Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science and Technology and Social Sciences. UWI’s seven priority focal areas are linked closely to the priorities identified by CARICOM and take into account such over-arching areas of concern to the region as environmental issues, health and wellness, gender equity and the critical importance of innovation. Website: http://www.uwi.edu/

(Please note that the proper name of the university is The University of the West Indies, inclusive of the “The”, hence The UWI.)