An all-round performance by Damion Bryce helped Portmore Pines CC defeat GC Foster College by three wickets in the final of the Wray & Nephew/Portmore Association Club T/20 Championship at Bridgeport on Sunday.
Scores: (GC Foster College 109-all out from 18 overs); (Portmore Pines CC 113-7 from 20 overs).
Ken’s Wildflower took third place after defeating Waterford CC by nine runs.
Winning the toss and electing to bat on a slow, flat pitch, GC Foster got off to a terrible start when Damion Bryce took two key early wickets. He removed Kanayna Barrett (five) and captain Gavin Wallace (seven) to leave the Spanish Town based-team struggling at 33-2 from six overs.
Ransford Henry was then run out for 18 (three fours) before Dervol Green tried to stable the innings when wickets were falling at regular intervals. The aggressive Green scored 55 (30 balls) which included six boundaries and a six, but when he was beautifully caught and bowled by Jonio Beckford, the GC Foster innings came to an end.
Damion Bryce finished with 2-18, Beckford, 2-19, and Andre Bryce chipped in with 2-34 for Portmore Pines CC.
In reply, Portmore Pines got off to a slow start but Damion Bryce led the run chase with a patient 65 from 70 deliveries. His knock included five boundaries, and he also shared in an opening-partnership of 29 with Allando Minott (four) from 9.3 overs.
Captain Terrance Brown then joined the left-handed Bryce at the crease and the pair put on 28 crucial runs that swung the game their way. Brown took 17 runs from Stephan Casey’s fourth over, struck two massive sixes with the latter bursting the ball. He was then bowled by Wallace for 15 (eight balls) at 92-5.
Gavin Wallace (3-25-2) and Odane Vassell (4-9-2) were GC Foster’s best bowlers.
Damion Bryce said that the game went as planned. “As the most senior player in the side the plan was to bat through the innings. We got off to slow start, but I just have to make the team bat around me and as long I am at one end I knew we would have a great chance on winning,” Bryce said.
Meanwhile, Gibbs Williams, coach of GC Foster, said that his team was 20 runs short.
“We failed to bat 20 overs and I felt we were 20 runs short. This is a young team and they made a lot of mistakes in the field, but it was a good team effort and congrats to Portmore Pines, they played a great game today (Sunday),” Williams told the Jamaica Observer.
Batting first in a game reduced to 18 overs, Ken’s Wildflower made 128-7. Kirk Brooks topscored with 34, Lascele Davis added 23, and Oraine Williams chipped in with 20 against Shomor Anderson, 3-16, and Damion Foster, 3-31.
In reply, Waterford got off to a strong start but were restricted for 119-9 from their allotted 18 overs. Anderson, 29, and Richard Allen, 26, were the chief runs scorers for Waterford against Myron Chin, 5-36, Aaron Graham, 2-7, and Oshane Wilson, 2-19.
Scores: (Ken’s Wildflower 128-7 from 18 overs); (Waterford CC 119-9 from 18 overs).
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