Gandhi Village, Extreme Customs in $30,000 Southern Sports final

The teams meet on Saturday in the 30-overs-per-side final at Guaracara Park, Pointe-a-Pierre from 6 pm, with a $30,000 bounty at stake for the winners. Beaten finalists will get $15,000.

Centrl Renegades and Tarouba Sports will meet earlier in the playoff for third and fourth, with prizes of $7,000 to the winners and $4,000 to the other team.

In semi-final action, Gandhi Village with in-form batsman Shammi Rampersad scoring 59 and Manoj Sirju 28 totalled 171 for seven wickets in the match which was reduced to 20 overs because of rain.

And, when Central Renegades replied, they found Navin Singh, who took four for 28 and Nishal Guyadeen (2/15) difficult to negotiate and were routed for 99.

In another encounter, Visham Ramroop snatched four wickets for seven runs, Andre Brown three for 14 and Varun Samaroo two for 22 to rout Tarouba Sports for a paltry 94.

Brown completed a fine all-round performance scoring an unbeaten 40 while Keegan Jagessar had 20 as Extreme Customs raced to 97 for two in just 10 overs.

Summarised scores: GANDHI VILLAGE UNITED SPORTS 171/7 - Shammi Rampersad 59, Manoj Sirju 28, Kapil Harry 22; Jonathan Bisnath 2/22, Joel Poliah 2/36 vs CENTRAL RENEGADES 99/8 - Joel Poliah 19, Clifton Rajkumar 19, Matthew Alexander 19; Navin Singh 4/28, Nishal Guyadeen 2/15.

Gandhi Village won by 72 runs.

TAROUBA SPORTS 94 - Nicholas Buchoon 25, Neil Samaroo 13; Visham Ramroop 4/7, Andre Brown 3/14, Varun Samaroo 2/23 vs EXTREME CUSTO MS 97/2 - Andre Browne 40 not out, Keegan Jagessar 20. Extreme Customs won by eight wickets.