Cable and Wireless' Shawn Lodge (right) blasts the ball through the onside during their Business House Twenty20 cricket match against Digicel at Kensington Park yesterday. - RICARDO MAKYN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
CABLE AND Wireless defeated Digicel by 33 runs in the opening round of the Digicel-sponsored Business House Twenty20 knockout cricket competition at Kensington Park yesterday.
The Twenty20 competition, an innovative game of cricket which recently caught on in England under some unconventional rules, is run by the Henriques Cup Cricket Board.
Sent in to bat, Cable & Wireless made 142 for six off their allotted 20 overs. Roxvone Stevens, batting at number four, led the way with a brisk 47 (four fours), Shawn Lodge got 21, Delroy Gordon 18 not out, including three towering sixes off only three balls, and captain Noel Clarke 16, with one four and a six opening the innings.
Paceman Devon Hunter claimed three for 33 off four overs, legspinner Richard Newell three for 35 while West Indies fast bowler Daren Powell was wicketless in four overs in which he conceded only nine runs.
In reply, Digicel made 109 for nine off 19 overs, having been penalised one over.
Powell emerged top scorer with 37 (two fours), while opener Kevin Dodd with a patient 32 was the only other batsman to enter double figures.
Former Kensington Senior Cup player Brian Blair took three for 13 off three overs and schoolboy Ryan Francis, who plays for Norman Manley, two for 15, also off three overs.
