T&T Red Force ends 20-year wait for First Class title

Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force has beat­en the Guyana Harpy Ea­gles by 141 runs at the Sir Vi­vian Richards Sta­di­um, North Sound, An­tigua, to lift the Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Cham­pi­onship.

In break­ing a 20-year drought in this for­mat, T&T al­so loosens Guyana's mo­nop­oly on re­gion­al crick­et's four-day com­pe­ti­tion, with the Harpy Ea­gles hav­ing won the last three tour­na­ments.

The Red Force, who start­ed the fourth and fi­nal day on 265 for 8 and a sec­ond in­nings lead of 278, even­tu­al­ly were dis­missed for 267, with Evin Lewis con­tribut­ing 122.

Set 281 to win in al­most three full ses­sions, the Harpy Ea­gles were bowled out for 139, with on­ly top-or­der bats­man Kevlon An­der­son able to pro­vide any mean­ing­ful re­sis­tance in a knock of 41 from 68 de­liv­er­ies.

T&T's four-pronged pace at­tack was once again in rip­ping form and ac­count­ed for all 10 Guyana wick­ets to fall on Day Four. Jay­den Seales led the charge with three for 39 from 11 overs, while Ter­rence Hinds claimed three for 20 from sev­en overs. They were well sup­port­ed by An­der­son Phillip (2 for 63) and Joshua James (2 for 12).