Champs Comets beaten in Fruta Twenty/20

PowerGen raced to 211 for six wickets from their 20 overs in Wednesday night’s match, with Rishi Bachan hitting a topscore 63 not out, including four sixes and two fours, while Samuel Badree scored 51, with three sixes and three fours and David Williams 41, with four sixes and two fours.

But when the champions replied, Badree snapped up three wickets for 36 runs while Dave ‘Tadpole’ Mohammed got two for 13, despite a determined 96 by Chris Magram who hit nine sixes and three fours. Badree was later named Man of the Match.

In the other game, W Connection Wanderers led by a whirlwind 68 from Williams Perkins who struck six sixes and two fours, rattled up 196 for four wickets off their 20 overs then restricted Joe Public Munroe Road to 148 for seven wickets for a 48-run victory.

Apart from Perkins who was later named Man of the Match, Brent Lezama got 42 and Timmuy Surujbally 37 for Wanderers.

Best scores for Munroe Road came from Jairaj Dilraj 37 and Anil Barlo 35.

Summarised scores: W CONNECTION WANDERERS 196/4 (20 overs) — W Perkins 68, B Lezama 42, T Surujbally 37, Andy Bahadoor 21 not out vs JOE PUBLIC MUNROE ROAD 148/7 (20 overs) — J Dilraj 37, A Barlo 35, Ramesh Singh 16, A Bahadoor 3/16, Theodore Modeste 2/20.

POWERGEN 211/6 (20 overs) — R Bachan 63 not out, S Badree 51, D Williams 42, Gibran Mohammed 20, Rajendra Mangallie 2/38, Kastrie Singh 2/39 vs ALESCON COMETS 197 (19.3 overs) — C Magram 86, Imran Khan 28, Suruj Ragoonath 23, S Badree 3/36, D Mohammed 2/13.