Left-arm or­tho­dox spin­ner Khary Pierre record­ed a hat-trick in the 13th over dur­ing Clarke Road’s in­nings, which helped Queen’s Park Crick­et Club to lift the 2025 edi­tion of the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) / Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) T20 Fes­ti­val fi­nal at the Queen’s Park Oval on Tra­garete Road, Port-of-Spain on Sat­ur­day night.

It was coach David Fur­longe’s first ti­tle with the QPCC team since re­turn­ing to the club af­ter a five-year stint with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force team as na­tion­al coach.

It start­ed when Clarke Road won the toss and opt­ed to field. Queen’s Park, with­out the in-form Joshua Da Sil­va, sur­pris­ing­ly opened with Dex­ter Sween and Kyle Ram­doo. The ex­per­i­ment didn’t seem to work, with Sween dis­missed for four with the third ball of the in­nings.

West In­dies bats­man Amir Jan­goo then walked out at num­ber four and shared in a 65-run part­ner­ship with Ram­doo, who got to 33 be­fore he was caught by An­der­son Ma­hase off the bowl­ing of Clevon ‘Ba­by’ Kalawan at 70 for two. Ram­doo had smashed four fours and a soli­tary six in his 25-ball knock.

Jan­goo played a mag­nif­i­cent in­nings and scored an un­beat­en 81 with five six­es and five fours from 52 balls. He played through to the com­ple­tion of the in­nings and en­abled the bats­men at the oth­er end to bat around him as they kept push­ing the run rate for­ward.

Out of favour West In­dies bats­man An­dre Fletch­er made on­ly 15 and was the third ca­su­al­ty of the Queen’s Park in­nings when he was caught by Vikash Mo­han from the bowl­ing of Shi­va Sankar, and cap­tain Dar­ren Bra­vo scored 19 and shared in a 43-run part­ner­ship with Jan­goo as they took the score to 143 for four when he was bowled by Mark Deyal.

Bat­ting at six, West In­dies pac­er Ter­rence Hinds con­tributed 18, hit­ting a four and two six­es, and Jyd Goolie, sur­pris­ing­ly bat­ting at sev­en, was un­beat­en on nine as Queen’s Park reached 185 for 5 from their 20 overs.

Set 186 to win, Clarke Road had a dis­as­trous start when Shi­an Brath­waite was leg be­fore wick­et to world num­ber one T20 bowler Akeal Ho­sein at one for one with the sec­ond ball of the in­nings.

Red Force bats­man Vikash Mo­han scored 18 in a 31-run part­ner­ship with Nicholas Sookdeosingh be­fore he was bowled by Jyd Goolie to give the Red Force bats­man his first of three wick­ets.

A dou­ble strike in the 10th over from Hinds left the Pe­nal club reel­ing at 54 for four and 131 runs be­hind with 62 balls or ten overs and two balls re­main­ing. The equa­tion for Clarke Road to win seemed like ‘Pythago­ras The­o­rem’, es­pe­cial­ly with Sookdeosingh, Brath­wait­he, Mo­han and Sha­trughan Ram­baran al­ready back in the pavil­ion.

Khary Pierre, who is cur­rent­ly the lead­ing bowler in the Crick­et West In­dies Four Day Cham­pi­onship with 31 scalps, struck three times in three balls in the 13th over, get­ting the wick­ets of Yan­nick Ot­t­ley (stumped by wick­et­keep­er Jan­goo for one), An­der­son Ma­hase (caught by Goolie for a duck), and An­to­nio Gomez (caught by Jan­goo for a duck) to leave Clarke Road’s in­nings up­side down at 65 for eight.

Goolie, known for his bat­ting, got the wick­ets of Ker­wyn Sir­ju and Shi­va Sankar as he joined Pierre on three wick­ets in the in­nings.

Clarke Road nev­er re­cov­ered, and the Pe­nal team were even­tu­al­ly bowled out for 93 in 16.2 overs.

Bess Mo­tors Marchin Pa­tri­ots bats­man Evin Lewis was named the play­er of the tour­na­ment with 327 runs, in­clud­ing a cen­tu­ry and two fifties.

<Ramdin’s cen­tu­ry helps Wood­land take Pre­mier Two ti­tle>

Ear­li­er, in the Pre­mier Two Fi­nal, for­mer West wick­et­keep­er De­nesh Ramdin scored an even un­beat­en 100 af­ter Wood­land were asked to bat first.

Ramdin’s knock dom­i­nat­ed the team’s in­nings as Wood­land scored 168 for 6 from their 20 overs.

Bran­don Ram­di­al scored 25 in sup­port of the right-han­der as the Po­lice bowlers, led by Dar­ius Be­sai, proved to be a hand­ful for the Wood­land bats­men.

Ramdin’s even hun­dred in­clud­ed 12 fours and three max­i­mums, and he used 65 balls in 86 min­utes for his man-of-the-match per­for­mance.

Po­lice stut­tered at the start when Matheus Ko­mal was caught by Sai­ba Ba­toos­ingh to give for­mer West In­dies fast bowler Shan­non Gabriel his soli­tary wick­et of the in­nings at 12 for one.

Po­lice then got a 104-run part­ner­ship through Kyle Roopc­hand (56) and Bren­dan Boodoo (68 not out) be­fore Roopc­hand was out at 116 for two when he was caught by Rakesh Ma­haraj off the bowl­ing of Ryan Hur­ley.

Boodoo, fresh from his 81 for South East in the In­ter Zone tour­na­ment the day be­fore, hit four fours and two six­es in his knock, but it wasn’t enough as Po­lice, af­ter los­ing three fur­ther wick­ets (Justin Joseph, Bri­an Year­wood and Stephan Whar­wood), reached 161 for five, just sev­en runs short as Wood­land laid claim to the tro­phy and ti­tle.

In ad­di­tion to the man-of-the-match, Ramdin was named the Play­er of the Se­ries of the Pre­mier Two.

Sum­marised Scores

Pre­mier­ship 1 Fi­nal.

Queen’s Park 185 /5 (20 overs) (Amir Jan­goo 81*; Kyle Ram­doo 33; MArk Deyal 2-38) vs Clarke Road 93 all out (16.2 overs) (Nicholas Sookdeosingh 24; Mark Deyal 23*; Jyd Goolie 3-14; Khary Pierre 3-24). Queen’s Park won by 92 runs.

Pre­mier­ship 2 Fi­nal

Wood­land 168 /6 (20 overs) (De­nesh Ramdin 100*; Dar­ius Be­sai 2-35) vs Po­lice 161 /5 (20 overs) (Bren­dan Boodoo 68*; Kyle Roopc­hand 56; Ryan Hur­ley 2-16). Wood­land won by 7 runs.