Trinidad and Tobago T20 champions

Trinidad's team celebrates big win. (Kenmore Bynoe)

By Philip Hackett | Mon, January 23, 2012 - 2:26 AM

Trinidad and Tobago continued to dominate regional T20 cricket, capturing their second title in just the third edition of the WICB's latest regional tournament.

Last night the Trinis comprehensively defeated Jamaica by 63 runs to take theCaribbean T20 title and secure a place in the Champions League later this year.

Combined with their success dating back to the days of theStanford tournament Trinidad has now won three regional T20 titles.

Opting to bat first after winning the toss Trinidad and Tobago reached a formidable 168 for six on the strength of Dwayne Bravo's belligerent 49 off 43 balls and Kieron Pollard's robust unbeaten 39 off 13 deliveries. Pollard smashed four sixes and a four, three of the sixes in the final over of the innings bowled by Krishmar Santokie.

In reply Jamaica struggled to 105 for five with Carlton Baugh Jnr topscoring with an unbeaten 39 off 23 balls.

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Posted by RANDY BRIDGEMAN 4 months ago: Congrats to the Trinis. They were the best team once again in the competition. But they’re not invincible. We had them 40/5, then they escaped possible defeat with sensible batting. I was hoping that they would’ve lost to the Jamaicans, if only to bring them back to earth. Pollard, Bravo, Ramdin are arrogant, somehow thinking they have a monoploy on T20 Championships. Just like our Tino Best. Why do they have to carry on everytime they make a good play? If one hadn’t seen them previously,one could easily come to the conclusion that they’d never done great things on the cricket field in the past. Oh well, this is the norm nowadays. The classic example though, in terms of celebration is when a strike bowler gets a tailender and the score is say, 575/8!! High fives galore, but they should check the score.