West Indies’ batsman Lendl Simmons plays a shot during their second Twenty20 cricket match with Sri
Lanka in Pallekele, Sri Lanka, Friday, March 6, 2020. He also plays for Trinidad and Tobago Red Force which
recently won the Regional Super50 Cup. Associated Press/Eranga Jayawardena, fi le
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By Azad Ali
Trinidad and Tobago Red Force
demolished Guyana Jaguars by 152
runs to win the 2021 GC Insurance
Super50 Cup to claim a record-extending
13th 50-over title on Saturday
night at the Coolidge Cricket
Ground in Antigua.
Guyana captain, Leon Johnson
won the toss and sent in the Red Force
to bat (in the day night encounter), a
decision he would regret as opener,
Lendl Simmons and Evin Lewis put
on an opening stand of 121.
Simmons struck a magnificent
146 and would add another 100 runs
for the second wicket with Darren
Bravo (47) and 67 with Nicholas
Pooran (39) for the third wicket.
The right-hander, who notched
a century against the Windward
Islands earlier in the tournament,
hit 15 fours and seven sixes in a 145-
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Former Cricket West Indies (CWI)
President, Dave Cameron.
Cameron
backs Sanasie
By Azad Ali
Former Cricket West Indies (CWI)
President, Dave Cameron is throwing
his support being veteran CWI director,
Anand Sanasie of Guyana and his running
mate, Calvin Hope, of Barbados,
when the CWI hosts its annual general
meeting (AGM) to elect a new president
and vice-president and other officers on
March 28.
Cameron told the Mason & Guest
show in Barbados last week, that
incumbents and Dr. Kishore Shallow,
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CWI’s third
broadcast deal
By Azad Ali
Cricket West Indies (CWI) has landed
a third new multi-year broadcast rights
agreement — this time with Super-
Sport securing the rights to West Indies
cricket until the end of 2024 in the sub-
Saharan Africa.
CWI CEO Johnny Grave in making
the announcement said all the deals
that have been announced so far have
either met or exceeded the independent
valuation that “our consultants
Pitch International did in June 2019. To
achieve these valuations in the midst of
the global pandemic is a fantastic result
and testament to the value of the West
Indies Cricket brand and our media
rights sales strategy.”
The four-year agreement will see
SuperSport feature exclusive live cover-
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T&T Red Force wins Regional Super50 Cup
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