Red Stripe Bowl: Question Over Zone 1 Results (18 October 1998)

18 October 1998

Red Stripe Bowl: Question Over Zone 1 Results

The Barbados Nation

DISCOVERY BAY, Jamaica - Did Trinidad and Tobago or Guyana really head the Red Stripe Bowl Zone 1 preliminary round in Guyana?

At the heart of debate here is the match between Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago which ended in a no-result after rain intervened with the hosts on 80 for three in reply to the visitors' 217 all out. One point was awarded to either side.

Both teams finished with the same number of points, and the net run-rate was used to determine which team topped the zone.

In doing their calculations, officials did not take into consideration the scores in the abandoned match. Their calculations gave Guyana a net run-rate of 2.58 and Trinidad and Tobago 1.26.

Tabulations by SunSport, with scores of the abandoned match included, gave Trinidad and Tobago a rate of 2.01 and Guyana 1.76.

It meant that Trinidad and Tobago, as Zone 1 winners, should have played Barbados in one semifinal and Guyana should have come up against the Leeward Islands in the other.

There was a lengthy debate about the situation at the Kaiser Sports Club yesterday morning ahead of the second semifinal between the Leewards and Trinidad and Tobago.

A check with the playing conditions did not offer any insight into whether scores in abandoned matches were relevant.

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