The Super50 Cup was a period agelong tourney being held successful Tarouba and the Jamaica Scorpions and Barbados Pride had reached the last of the eight-team tourney by finishing successful the apical 4 of the league and past winning their respective semi-finals against Leeward Islands Hurricanes and Trinidad and Tobago Red Force. (Representative Image)
A home tourney successful the West Indies ended successful a forfeit aft the captains of Barbados Pride and Jamaica Scorpions, 2 teams who were acceptable to instrumentality portion successful the last of the Super50Cup connected Sunday successful Trinidad and Tobago, didn’t get connected clip for the toss.
Initially the match, acceptable to beryllium a 50-over contest, was reduced to 20 overs aft atrocious upwind had intervened. A connection was released wherever it stated that the 1PM commencement was disrupted an hr anterior erstwhile rainfall deed the country and pushed the crippled back.
“However, astir 5.45pm, the officiating squad determined that the crippled could proceed astatine the latest imaginable commencement clip of 6.17pm,” the connection continued. “They informed the players of this and that the flip would beryllium conducted astatine 6pm.
“Despite assurances from the umpires and lucifer referee that the conditions were harmless for play, some captains failed to beryllium contiguous for the toss, allowing clip to elapse past the latest starting point.
“As a result, some teams failed to instrumentality the field, efficaciously refusing to play. This resulted successful a treble forfeit, with nary champion being declared.”
The bizarre effect was announced due to the fact that Cricket West Indies rules authorities that successful lawsuit of a disruption specified arsenic the weather, the trophy would beryllium shared by some finalists. But successful this instance, Match Referee Reon King had fixed his go-ahead for the lucifer to begin. When some captain’s didn’t amusement up for the toss, some teams fundamentally forfeited themselves retired of the competition.
The Super50 Cup was a period agelong tourney being held successful Tarouba and the Jamaica Scorpions and Barbados Pride had reached the last of the eight-team tourney by finishing successful the apical 4 of the league and past winning their respective semi-finals against Leeward Islands Hurricanes and Trinidad and Tobago Red Force