Trinidad and Tobago, led by a four-wicket haul from Dave Mohammed, cruised to a nine-wicket win over Jamaica with 64 balls to spare to claim the $1 million jackpot in the second edition of the Stanford 20/20.
The final was a rather one-sided affair as a strangely subdued Jamaica never posted anything like enough runs to trouble a strong Trinidad team. Put in to bat, they lost Shaun Findlay to the second ball when he fished at a delivery from seamer Rayad Emrit and was caught by Denesh Ramdin. Xavier Marshall and Marlon Samuels made steady progress but grew increasingly becalmed. Marshall dragged a delivery from legspinner Samuel Badree, who was opening the bowling, onto his stumps and five balls later, Samuels' attempted heave off Dwayne Bravo only resulted in an easy catch to Lendl Simmons at long-on.
From there they lost all momentum, and plunged to 63 for 5 when Mohammed dismissed the dangerous Chris Gayle and the in-form Danza Hyatt, who had been Jamaica's mainstay in their semifinal triumph over Guyana. Gayle managed to inside-edge a flick onto his stumps while Hyatt was deceived by a flighted delivery to be stumped.
Mohammad had his third scalp when Baugh missed a sweep off a ball that pitched on middle and leg. A direct hit from Bravo at mid-on, for which he won the Play of the Day, accounted for David Bernard before Taylor was bowled by Mohammed, who would go on to claim the Man-of-the-Match award. Emrit cleaned up Nikita Miller to bring about the end of Jamaica's innings.
Chasing a modest 92, Trinidad lost Ramdin with their score on 19 when he edged Jerome Taylor to wicketkeeper Carlton Baugh. But this brought together Simmons and William Perkins, who blitzed 74 runs off 47 balls to lead the victory charge. Williams was especially severe on the Jamaica bowlers, smashing six fours and a six on his way to an unbeaten 50 off 33 balls, while Simmons' 26 not out featured four fours and a towering six over long-on off Samuels.
BRIEF SCORES
JAMAICA: 91 all out in 16.4 overs (Samuels 27, Mohammed 4-20)
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: 94-1 in 9.2 overs (Perkins 50*)
Result: T&T won by nine wickets.
Man-of-the-match: Dave Mohammed.