Jamaica won this year’s fourth Regional Blind Cricket Tournament yesterday after they defeated Barbados in a close contest at the Providence National Stadium.

Batting first Barbados scored 153-4 in the game which was reduced to 10 overs with opening batsmen Tremaine Forte and Ricardo Manning scoring 42 and 29 runs respectively.

Captain of Jamaica’s Blind Cricket Team Toussaint Gardner receives the championship trophy from president of the West Indies Blind Cricket Council Clevdon Mayers. (Orlando Charles photo)

Jamaica replied with 154-5 with Jason Ricketts topscoring with 34 while Loshane Myles chipped in with 20.
Ricardo Manning of Barbados was adjudged Man-of-the-Match.
Earlier, Jamaica defeated Trinidad by 10 wickets.

Batting first Trinidad scored 87-8 with Keith Baptiste scoring 10.
Jamaica in reply scored 88-0 in 9.4 overs with Denol Shim topscoring with 36.
Trinidad’s Keith Baptiste was named Man-of-the-Match.