TT woman best bowler at U-23 series

CASTRIES: The Jamaica captain Trecia Bromfield and Trinidad and Tobago’s Anisa Mohammed each swept two awards at the West Indies Women’s Under-23 Cricket Championship that ended Sunday.

Bromfield collected the most runs and highest score batting awards, while off-spinner Mohammed collected most wickets and had the best average to dominate the bowling prizes. Both also received picks on a 14-member All-Star squad for the tournament. Bromfield, a Jamaica senior player, gathered 151 runs in the tournament for fourth-placed Jamaica and also smashed a tournament-best 65 against St Lucia. Mohammed claimed 14 wickets at a tournament-leading average of 5.78 runs per wicket.

West Indies senior team pacer Clea Hoyte, of champions St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), won the award for the best batting average, and Guyana’s Anabelle Lewis won the best bowling performance — five for four off 3.3 overs against the President’s XI. SVG and Trinidad and Tobago each secured four selections on the All-Star squad, with Hoyte, Janielle Greaves (captain) Mishka George, and Jennifer Charles getting in for SVG, and Mohammed, Jade Chadee, Nelly Williams, and Sherna Assoon, picked from TT.

Guyana earned three selections, through Indomatie Goordial, Tracy Miller, and Candacy Atkins, and the squad is completed by Bromfield and Stephanie Taylor from Jamaica, and St Lucia’s Royline Cooper. SVG retained the title on net run rate after defeating hosts St Lucia by eight wickets in the final round of matches on Sunday. SVG ended joint top of the standings on 17 points with Trinidad and Tobago, but collected the top prize because their net run-rate of 1.12 was superior to TT’s 1.01.