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2010 Caribbean Twenty20

Administrator(s)	WICB
Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin and knockout
Host(s)	West Indies
Champions	Guyana (1st title)
Participants	8
Matches	16
Most runs	Marlon Samuels (210)
Most wickets	Lennox Cush (11)
Official website	www.windiescricket.com
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The 2010 Caribbean Twenty20 season was the debut season of the Caribbean Twenty20, established by the West Indies Cricket Board in 2010. The season was held in Barbados and Trinidad between 22 and 31 July 2010. It featured all seven West Indies first-class cricket domestic teams and one overseas team – Canada.

The competition started with a group stage, in which the teams are divided into two groups of four. Each group competed in a round robin and those matches were followed by two semi-finals, a third-place playoff and a final. The top domestic team from the tournament will qualify for the 2010 Champions League Twenty20.

Guyana won the tournament, defeating Barbados in the final by one wicket with one ball remaining. Trinidad and Tobago came third and Jamaica came fourth. The tournament was greatly affected by the weather conditions at the venues. Out of the eight games played in Trinidad, three matches were abandoned and three matches – including a semi-final and the third-place playoff – were shortened due to heavy rain.

Background

The previous domestic Twenty20 tournament held by the West Indies Cricket Board was the Stanford 20/20, which ended in 2008 after its sponsor Allen Stanford was charged with fraud and arrested in June 2009. The creation of the Caribbean Twenty20 tournament coincides with the 2010 Champions League Twenty20 tournament, which starts less than two months after. The top domestic team from the tournament will qualify for the Champions League as the sole representative of the West Indies. They will be the tenth and last team to qualify, as all other teams qualified before May 2010.

Cricket in the West Indies was at a time of decline, indicated by the criticism received when they hosted the 2007 Cricket World Cup and the failure of the Stanford 20/20. With the slogan "Bring It Back", the Caribbean Twenty20 was an attempt to revitalise interest in the sport with a focus on the Twenty20 format, which was popular amongst audiences in the 18–34 age-group. This follows the success of the Trinidad and Tobago national cricket team at the 2009 Champions League Twenty20, where they were runners-up, and the West Indies' successful hosting of the 2010 ICC World Twenty20.

Venues

All matches were played at the following two grounds:

Bridgetown, Barbados	Port of Spain, Trinidad
Kensington Oval	Queen's Park Oval
Capacity: 15,000	Capacity: 25,000
BridgetownPort of Spain

Format

The tournament consisted of 16 matches, and was divided into a group stage and a knockout stage. If a match ended in a tie, a Super Over would have been played to determine the winner. The group stage had the teams divided into two equal groups, with each playing a round-robin tournament. The top two teams of each group advanced to the knockout stage. The knockout stage consisted of two semi-finals, a third-place playoff and the grand final. The semi-finals had the top team of one group facing the second from the other. The winners of the semi-finals played in the grand final to determine the winner of the competition, while the losers of the semi-finals played the third-place playoff.

Points in the group stage were awarded as follows:

Prize money

The total prize money for the competition was US$53,000. The most man of the match in each of the 16 matches received $500 and a plaque. The prize money was distributed as follows:

• $4,000 – Fourth place
• $6,000 – Third place
• $10,000 – Runners-up
• $25,000 – Winners

Teams

Group A	Group B
Canada *	Barbados
Jamaica	Combined Campuses
Leeward Islands	Guyana
Trinidad and Tobago	Windward Islands

* (overseas team)

Results

All times shown are in Eastern Caribbean Time (UTC−04).

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Trinidad and Tobago	3	3	0	0	12	1.869
2	Jamaica	3	2	1	0	8	0.318
3	Leeward Islands	3	0	2	1	1	−0.730
4	Canada	3	0	2	1	1	−2.565

Canada  110/8 (20 overs)

v

Trinidad and Tobago 111/1 (14.1 overs)

Leeward Islands 124/7 (20 overs)

v

Jamaica 126/1 (17.4 overs)

Canada  101/7 (20 overs)

v

Jamaica 102/1 (13 overs)

Leeward Islands 161/7 (20 overs)

v

Trinidad and Tobago 162/5 (19 overs)

Canada

v

Leeward Islands

Trinidad and Tobago  157/7 (18 overs)

v

Jamaica 108 (17.1 overs)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Barbados	3	2	0	1	9	0.975
2	Guyana	3	2	0	1	9	0.361
3	Combined Campuses and Colleges	3	0	2	1	1	−0.162
4	Windward Islands	3	0	2	1	1	−1.185

Windward Islands 157/8 (20 overs)

v

Guyana 160/5 (19.2 overs)

Barbados  180/6 (20 overs)

v

Combined Campuses and Colleges 180/5 (20 overs)

Combined Campuses and Colleges 142/9 (20 overs)

v

Guyana 143/6 (19.2 overs)

Barbados  159/6 (20 overs)

v

Windward Islands 120/9 (20 overs)

Barbados

v

Guyana

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Semifinals					Finals
	A1	Trinidad and Tobago	171 (18.5 ov)
	B2	Guyana	175/7 (19 ov)
						B2	Guyana	135/9 (19.5 ov)
						B1	Barbados	134/5 (20 ov)
	B1	Barbados	154/4 (18.5 ov)
	A2	Jamaica	153/9 (20 ov)			Third place
						A1	Trinidad and Tobago (D/L)	89/0 (10.1 ov)
						A2	Jamaica	94/7 (14 ov)

Semi-finals

Guyana  175/7 (19 overs)	v	Trinidad and Tobago 171 (18.5 overs)
Travis Dowlin 59 (39) Kieron Pollard 4/31 (4 overs)		Dwayne Bravo 55 (20b, 1x4, 6x6) Royston Crandon 4/37 (3.5 overs)

• Trinidad and Tobago won the toss and elected to field.
• Rain reduced the match to 19 overs per side.

Jamaica  153/9 (20 overs)	v	Barbados 154/4 (18.5 overs)
Danza Hyatt 89 (50b, 4x4, 8x6) Larry Babb 2/17 (1.4 overs)		Jonathan Carter 54 (43) Krishmar Santokie 2/12 (4 overs)

• Jamaica won the toss and elected to bat.

Third-place playoff

Jamaica  94/7 (14 overs)	v	Trinidad and Tobago 89/0 (10.1 overs)
Carlton Baugh 40 (29) Kevon Cooper 2/8 (3 overs)		Adrian Barath 39* (34) David Bernard 0/12 (2 overs)

• Jamaica won the toss and elected to bat.
• Rain initially reduced the match to 14 overs per side. Rain further reduced Trinidad and Tobago's innings to 13 overs with a target of 89 runs according to the Duckworth–Lewis method.

Final

Barbados  134/5 (20 overs)	v	Guyana 135/9 (19.5 overs)
Jonathan Carter 57* (62) Devendra Bishoo 2/14 (4 overs)		Jonathan Foo 42* (17) Ashley Nurse 5/36 (4 overs)

• Barbados won the toss and elected to bat.

Television coverage

Country/Continent	Broadcaster(s)
Africa	ESPN
Australia	ESPN
Caribbean	ESPN, Caribbean Media Corporation
Middle East	ESPN
New Zealand	ESPN
United Kingdom	ESPN

See also

• Stanford 20/20

References

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External links

• 2010 Caribbean T20 website on the West Indies Cricket Board Official Website
• CricInfo Caribbean T20 website

• 2010 in cricket
• Caribbean Twenty20
• 2010–11 West Indian cricket season