St Augustine inter-campus cricket kings

ST AUGUSTINE are the new inter-Campus cricket kings. The Trinidad campus whipped Cave Hill by eight wickets with a full nine overs and five balls to spare in the final of this year’s University of the West Indies inter-campus games at Sir Frank Worrell ground, St. Augustine, yesterday.

A shower which forced 20-minute delay, saw the game reduced to 35 overs per team. When the shower fell, Cave Hill were on 121/4 off 31.2 overs. But on the resumption, off-spinner Sanjeev Maharaj claimed four wickets for 18 runs as the Cave Hill team lost five wickets for 23 runs to finish on 144 for nine wickets. Dion Lovell topscored for the Barbados campus with 49 off 74 balls in 126 minutes, which included five fours. Responding, St Augustine raced to 145 for two wickets off 25.1 overs with Kishore Sobie, promoted to open the batting hitting an unbeaten 52 which included one five and six fours.

Sobie who struck the winning runs to beat then defending champs Mona, featured in a 46-run opening stand with Jitin Maraj (17), but after losing another quick wicket, it was cruise control for the Trinidad campus. Sobie was joined by Darry Balgobin who scored 38 not out including five fours, in an unfinished 93-run  fourth-wicket partnership to take their team to victory. And to celebrate their first-ever cricket victory, the St Augustine team did a lap of honour, watched by ex-West Indies cricketers Charlie Davis (Trinidad and Tobago), Keith Arthurton (Nevis), Jeffrey Dujon (Jamaica), and retired UWI vice-principal Baldwin Mootoo and UWI Director of Sports and Physical Education Dr. Iva Gloudon. Cave Hill captured the netball title beating St. Augustine 38-35 in a thrilling finale on Wednesday. And yesterday, the Bajan campus made it a double by taking the basketball crown, beating Mona 81-60 in the final. The Cave Hill footballers have a chance to make it three titles when they face St Augustine in the final from 3 pm today.