 We're switching back to cricket on the Sportsman zone. Jamaica have been crowned champions of the cricket West Indies regional women's T20 blaze following an eight wicket win over the Leeward Islands at Warner Park earlier on Monday. We saw them finishing the season unbeaten a 33 ball unbeaten 48 from skip with Stefani Taylor helped the Jamaicans complete the highest successful run chase of the tournament. Overrolling the target of 125 in 18.2 overs they got to 127 for two. The win also hands the Jamaicans the regional double following a triumphant Super 50 campaign earlier this month. They had lost just one game in the Super 50 tournament. Amanda Edwards top scored for the Leewards with 35. Meanwhile Guyana ended their season on a high following a 69 run win over the Winwood Islands. Always earlier at the same venue having elected to bat the Guyanese got to 131 for four from their 20 overs thanks to Mandy Mangrews unbeaten 51 a five wicket hole from Spina Kecia Schultz 5 for 14 then helped to dismiss the Winwoods for 62 in 15.3 overs. The season drones to a close when bottom of the table Barbados take on Trinidad and Tobago Divas in a few minutes time and that's also at Warner Park in Send Kits. Lance and Mariah real exciting tournament the women's T20 blaze and before that the women's Super 50 Jamaica prevailing in both tournaments and in the T20 campaign they have gone unbeaten led by great leadership from the captain Stefani Taylor but with a lot of quality around her. Rashada Williams played really well with the back for the Jamaicans in the first two games of the T20 blaze. Chanel Henry has been terrific with both bat and ball especially with the ball. I've been impressed with her at this tournament and just a lot of quality around the Jamaica team that led them to this title. Yeah and you know I suspect they had won the championship before this match today based on the point standings but I guess mathematically there was a chance for some bonus points to impact but even with that I think they were already assured of the title. Good on them. They didn't do well last year. Stefani Taylor had been hurt last year and didn't play the entire tournament and I think that affected the Jamaicans chances because the Jamaican team without Stefani Taylor is is like a Barbados team without Hayley Mathews. And not just Stefani Taylor in my interview with Chanel Henry she brought it to my attention she was not a part of the team also because of her she had injuries yes she was hurt last year as well. So she didn't play at all so think about it two of their best players lands missing from the competition so I think that of course impacted them greatly as well. No Chanel Henry I didn't I didn't realize that until the interview. Yes so you know a good rebound for the Jamaicans to come back and win and win both tournaments as well and it's troubling some aspects of the quality of the competition but I think I've seen some improvement but I still continue to be worried about the future of women's cricket in the Caribbean because I don't think the younger emerging players are being as impactful as we would want them to be. I see talent there in some of the players but the consistency of performance we're not getting that but you know I guess tournaments like these and the continued competition in the T20 and the 50 over formats will help to give them the opportunity to develop their skills. What I will say though is for the Trinidad and Tobago Red Force Divas right. A lot of the youngsters I want to give them a pass because Lance one of them that I spoke to Brianna Haricharan she's 15 years old it's her first time playing at this level of course you know so I think she gets a pass for me Samara as well she showed signs of positivity she's 16 years old so I think just judging from the TNT Red Force Divas I still think that they have some players that can step up it's just that one they're very new to this level of cricket and two they're very very young so it's the first time that they're actually playing big woman cricket. Yeah but what about someone like a Janaba Joseph then because she was a prominent under 19 West Indies player and at the stage now where we're expecting to see her grow into some strong performances and I'm not I'm not really getting that so I just think there has been a bit of a stuttering with some of the development of the of the players because Janaba is a player I thought looking at her at the under 19s that you know she looked as if she would be she would represent the future of West Indies cricket or part of the future and at the moment she isn't really showing that. You say that but then I could come to that with we had Shubhika Gajnabi being really really good this season Rashadah Williams also stepped up in a way that you know. Yeah but Rashadah Williams I would consider to be already in the West Indies side that would be among the players that I guess you would expect. I wouldn't consider Rashadah to be among the younger set so those between 18 and 23 years old and I think that's where Lance is getting at because I completely agree with him especially on the batting side of things. I am not seeing those new players perform with the level of consistency that you want. It's still the old names even the night sisters for Barbados they're still the ones performing you look at for Jamaica you spoke about Rashadah it's Tafani it's Shadi Nation who is what 36 or 37 years old it's Natasha McLean who is no spring chicken so Perletian from the wind where it's 41 years old. Those are the players who are making the runs and it's a problem because it's the weakest area of West Indies women cricket and if you are looking to build for the future I don't think we have a bowling issue I think we have a batting issue so when I see the butters between 18 and 23 years old not performing with consistency then it makes me troubled. I get what you're saying but I was just trying to find a case for the um for the young the really young ones because I feel as if it's not fair to judge them on just this competition and I'm talking about the 15 and 16 year olds because I feel as if you know we have to see them play a bit more and they they got just few opportunities to showcase and I really think they're talented it's just that with time we'll have to see how it turns out and that's a fair point but I think it's not about judging them necessarily but I think it's more about making the point that we still have a problem and we're not quite seeing the solution yet and I think it's an important point to make because understand that we just had several women who retired from the game and in that group based on what we're seeing in this tournament are still some of the best butters in the region um from and that's a problem yes that is a serious problem for the women's game in the Caribbean and that's why I think the point is so important. Yeah and I think it is also highlighted by the fact that globally when you talk about franchise cricket and in women's cricket Hayley Matthews is currently the only West Indian who is being sought after yeah so there is this gap that needs to be filled you know and and and I just want to see more striking performances at at our regional level with players putting putting their their their hats in the ring for global contracts. This is this might sound controversial Lance and Mariah but I think it will actually get worse before we get to the stage that we want to get to and I hear Mariah where she says she thinks that there is talent there I don't think there is any significant batting talent there I don't see any battle in the Caribbean on the women's side that can come close at this point to a Stafani Taylor, DeAndre Dotty and Hayley Matthews in terms of the talent levels none and and I say that without apology and I know it's a tough thing to say but I look at all the butters and it's not there and I think until we get these young women from they are six seven eight years old and teach them the craft of well I can't say batsmanship batswomen ship then we're going to continue to have these issues because to me batting is not something that you get up and become good at at 16 17 18 years old it's the type of thing that needs to be nurtured nurtured from a very early stage it's like racket sports as far as I'm concerned the earlier you start the better it is for you and I also think if they would have more competitions like these not so far apart regularly it could also assist because then I get to see the ladies more we get to see them in action but the competition helps little with what I'm talking about because what I'm talking about is the basic part of the development process that is missing right now so yes the competitions with the competitions I think you will see improvements in the fielding in the fitness in the bowling in the batting but I don't think the improvements in the batting will be significant because the issues in terms of the technical issues and the understanding of batsmanship is not there and those things are not easy to develop just by playing competitions all right well we're out of time this is sorry for the bad news this is a tough tough one we'll take a break we'll be back