Leverock fifty helps ICC Americas to victory

Kamau Leverock scored 55 to help ICC Americas to their first win in Group B of the West Indies Cricket Regional Super50 Tournament yesterday at the Windward Cricket Club in Barbados.

The Americas scored 265 before dismissing the Combined Campuses and Colleges Marooners for 187 in 43.3 overs after their target had been revised to 260 in 48 overs following a third rain stoppage when the Marooners were 97 for two after 20 overs.

Opener Leverock reached his fifty after ten overs. He was second man out in the 18th over when the score was 91, facing 61 balls and hitting four fours and a six. Captain Nitish Kumar led the Americas batting with 80 off 100 balls after coming in at No 3. That knock earned him the Man of the Match award, while Timroy Allen added a valuable 69 late in the innings as the Americas reached their highest total of the tournament.

Leverock put on 77 for the second wicket with his captain after losing opening partner Akeem Dodson in the fourth over with only 14 runs on the board. After Leverock departed, the Americas slumped to 121 for five before Kumar and Allen shared in a sixth wicket stand of 97 in seventeen overs. Allen then added a useful 33 for the seventh wicket with Saad Zafar who brought up the 250 in 48.1 overs.