GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Emmanuel Lett continued his outstanding showing at the WICB Regional Under-19 Championship with another brilliant performance yesterday to re-ignite Trinidad and Tobago hopes of winning the One-Day title.
Three-and-a-half weeks ago the 18-year-old came into the tournament as an unknown quantity, but he has proven to be T&T’s man for every crisis.
He made a memorable unbeaten 187 in the three-day tournament and on Saturday he turned bowling hero with five wickets as T&T, the defending champs, blanked Leeward Islands by 96 runs at Bourda in their fourth round encounter.
This means T&T are now in second behind Barbados with the two teams meeting in the title decider tomorrow.
Lett, bowling his uncomplicated but deadly accurate off-spin, took a career-best five for 21 from eight overs to send the Leewards spinning to 141 all out off 35.5 overs, as they chased T&T’s 237 off 50 overs – their best batting effort of the limited-overs tournament.
Lett’s main victim was opener Shaquille Martina,