NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Captain Romel Currency produced an fine all-round performance to spur Combined Campuses & Colleges (CCC) to their first win by 29 runs over Sussex in Group-B of the Caribbean Twenty20 tournament at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground on Saturday.
Currency slammed 48 off the same number of balls with three boundaries as opener in his team’s total of 130 for five off 20 overs after they won the toss.
He then returned with his underrated spin bowling to grab four for eight off four overs to be the undisputed Player-of-the-Match.
Currency and all-rounder Kyle Mayers added 51 for the fourth wicket in 8.1 overs.
Left-hander Mayers scored 33 off 31 balls with two sixes and one four.
Chris Liddle took two for 17 off four overs.
Sussex lost wickets steadily after reaching 51 for three in the 11th over and were limited to 101 for nine.
Opener Joe Gatting topscored with 37 off 32 balls, which included five fours and one six. Ben Brown contributed 27 off 23 balls, striking two fours and one six.
Apart from Currency, off-spinner Ryan Austin picked up two for 12 and left-arm spinner Yannick Ottley, two for 23, both off four overs.
Scoreboard
COMBINED CAMPUSES & COLLEGES (20 overs maximum)
+C Walton c Adkin b Nash 4
*R Currency c Hodd b Wernars 48
F Reifer c wk Brown b Liddle 11
K Hope c Gatting b Adkin 11
K Mayers c Nash b Liddle 33
R Wiggins not out 7
J Holder not out 2
Extras (b 3, lb 6, w 5) 14
TOTAL (5 wks; 20 overs) 130
Did not bat: H Henry, Y Ottley, R Austin, K Kantasingh
Fall of wickets 1-15, 2-33, 3-58, 4-109, 5-126.
Bowling: Nash 3-0-21-1 (2w), Anyon 3-0-17-0 (2w), Liddle 4-0-17-2, Beer 4-0-17-0 (1w), Adkin 4-0-28-1, Wernars 2-0-21-1.
SUSSEX (target: 131 runs off 20 overs)
C Nash c Henry b Kantasingh 0
J Gatting lbw b Austin 37
M Machan b Austin 5
K Wernars lbw b Currency 5
+B Brown b Ottley 27
*M Yardy lbw b Currency 0
A Hodd c Reifer b Currency 3
W Adkin not out 8
W Beer st Walton b Ottley 0
J Anyon st Walton b Currency 0
C Liddle not out 5
Extras (lb 5, w 6) 11
TOTAL (9 wks; 20 overs) 101
Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-34, 3-51, 4-59, 5-59, 6-75, 7-88, 8-88, 9-90.
Bowling: Kantasingh 4-1-20-1 (1w), Holder 2-0-20-0, Ottley 4-0-23-2 (1w), Austin 4-0-12-2, Currency 4-0-8-4 (1w), Mayers 2-0-13-0 (2w).
Result: Combined Campuses & Colleges won by 29 runs.
Points: Combined Campuses & Colleges 4, Sussex 0
Toss: Combined Campuses & Colleges
Man-of-the-Match: R. Currency (Combined Campuses & Colleges).
Umpires: G Brathwaite, C Mack
TV umpire: J Wilson
Matchreferee: A Griffith
Reserve umpire: B Joseph