Adrian Kartik hits out for the Police during his opening stand of 41 with Collis Frazer.

Bashir, watched closely by Niel Niles, who scored 24, picked up 2 for 21.

Kenneth Jordan looks for another boundary during his quickfire 23.

The Tournament is sponsored by the Paint Factory and James certainly splashed the ball to all parts of the Cruise Ship Dock in a colourful innings. The next highest scorer was Christopher Peters with 18 to underline the dominance shown by James.

The Vincy team is no light weights on the bowling front, but only Motty Olivierre was able to reign in the church team with his spell of 3 for 17.

In reply, Dennisford Brown again led the way for his team with 62 and with Omal Cockburn adding a useful 35, the Vincy were always up with the required rate. However, as wickets began to fall and some panic set in, the NTCoG seized the initiative and kept the coolest heads.

Down to the wire with one wicket left and one run to tie and in shades of the recent Windies v Australia game, the Church prevailed, the Vincy were vanquished, all out 178.

Collin Olivierre was the crucial difference only conceding 11 runs from his 2 overs spell and picking up 2 wickets.

And if he hadn’t already done enough to give his team an opening game win, McTair James also nipped in for 2 wickets, conceding 36 from 3 overs.

In the day’s first game, the Police opened their campaign against the Vikings C.C. and were promptly given a fair walloping.

Batting first, the Police scored freely with Adrian Kartik, 22 and Collis Frazer, 15, putting on 41 for the first wicket. Then the wheels came off and wickets tumbled. Neil Niles hit 24 and Kenneth Jordan 23, but the rest of the batting fell by the wayside under some tight bowling from the Vikings and the innings closed on 119.

Richard Fredericks finished with 3 for 29 and both Basheer Hydar and Govin Singh each had 2 for 21.

Fredericks then launched himself into the Police bowling smashing 46 as the Vikings reached their target from just 7.4 overs for the loss of 2 wickets. Anil Mahabir made 26 not out and Kevin Walker 16 not out. Vin Rambharose picked up both wickets to fall for 26 off 3 overs.

Next Sunday sees Cavaliers C.C. play Wolues C.C. at noon followed by the NTCoG against Carime C.C. at 2.30 p.m.