PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- The Most Valuable Player of the just concluded NAGICO Super50 tournament, Dwayne Smith, is to defend his Caribbean Single Wicket Cricket title when the 2014 tournament gets under way in June, organizers have announced.
Smith, who led Barbados to the Super50 crown, will return for his title defence when the event takes place from June 18-19 in St Augustine, Trinidad.
Promoters Glory Entertainment Television says UWI SPEC is the venue for this year’s competition which will feature the region’s leading all-rounders.
The revival of the single wicket competition started when Glory TV staged an exhibition tournament in 2009 in Tobago with 12 cricketers representing five islands going head-to-head to determine the best all-rounder.
Lendl Simmons emerged the winner of that competition.
Other West Indies standouts in the tournament included Ricardo Powell, Dwayne Bravo and Samuel Badree.
The first annual single wicket cricket tournament was played at UWI SPEC in October last year with six Caribbean territories represented.
It attracted several of the Caribbean’s leading all-rounders and culminated with Smith defeating Guyana’s Christopher Barnwell in the final.