BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A match which promised much ended in a no result, after rain wiped-out a crucial Caribbean Twenty20 contest between Trinidad & Tobago and Hampshire yesterday.
Darren Bravo was not out on 28 and Jason Mohammed was not out on 15, as T&T, choosing to bat, reached 70 for four from 9.5 overs when a second stoppage for rain prevented any further play in the match at Kensington Oval. With both sides tied at the top of the Group-B standings on nine points, the result meant that T&T have risen to the top of the ladder ahead of Hampshire with a superior net run rate of +1.425.
T&T face Barbados in their final group match tomorrow, but Hampshire have completed their quota of four matches. The English Twenty20 champions will now have to await the outcome of yesterday’s late match between the Barbadian and Canada sides, as well as tomorrow’s matches to find out if they have qualified for the Final Four.
T&T were wobbling from early, when they plunged to 16 for three in the fifth over, after Chris Wood held three catches to dismiss Lendl Simmons for a duck in the second over, Adrian Barath for two in the third over, and Kevon Cooper for five.
Daren Ganga came to the crease and put on 35 for the fourth wicket to get T&T moving, but he was caught off Johannes Myburgh for 14 to leave the two-island republic struggling on 51 for four in the ninth over.
Jason Mohammed had just begun to get into the thick of things with two fours and one six in the first five balls from Benny Howell when the rain interrupted, and the players never returned to the field.
