Starcom conquer Mason’s XI on night of fun

Article by HAYDN GILL

MAC FINGALL estimated the crowd at the St Catherine Club for the Starcom Network celebrity match on Friday night at 10 074.

A more conservative guess was around 6 000. The official figure yesterday was given at 8 260.

Whatever the number was, the general consensus was that it was arguably the biggest turnout of spectators for a tapeball cricket match in Barbados.

They came in their numbers to Bayfield – which Fingall described as the capital of Barbados.

And they were served a mixture of wonderful entertainment – steel pan music, two songbirds, vocal cheerleaders, attractive water girls, a pool party, comedy and decent cricket.

For the record, Starcom Network, with Ronnie De Announcer Clarke and his Conquering Lions, upstaged a star-studded Michael Lashley’s Elite Mason’s XI, winning by 31 runs on the strength of an impressive 76 from Damian Payne and a five-wicket haul by Andy Blackman. (HG)

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