 So, we're continuing our innings with Cricket. The first day of the Cricket-Westernies women's Super 50 Cup took place on Monday in St. Kitts and Nevis, with wins for Jamaica, Winwood Islands and Guyana. Led by Stefani Taylor and Chanel Henry, Jamaica comprehensively beat Barbados, who are without Haley Matthews by 200 runs, here are the scores. Alright, so from round one, we had Jamaica women 293 and 46.5 overs, that 99 coming from Skipper, Stefani Taylor and Chanel Henry of course pitching in with a big 93. Barbados women went on to batten, they were dismissed for 89 all out in 37.4 overs, Najani Cumberbatch 22 and a Sabi calendar 14. What about the bowlers, Stefani Taylor doing the damage for the Jamaican women with 2 for 16, and Vanessa Watts 2 for 24 for the Bayer-Jones, they had Alia Allen 3 for 24 and Allison Gordon 2 for 35. Do we have any more scorecards? Alright, well, let's welcome Vernon Springer, who joins us for the review. Good afternoon Vernon, how are you? Good afternoon, not good news for you, you're getting bigger going down the way you are. Yeah, it was a really tough one for me to watch Vernon, of course, you know, a bit of disappointment, but we're gonna look now at the other scores from day one and we'll get to them, so we'll have a good bit of time to discuss what went wrong, what went right and hopefully they can rectify those errors moving forward. So the Jamaica Barbados match first Vernon, Stefani Taylor reminding us of why we loved her so so much, 99, it's unfortunate she didn't get that 100 and of course the Skipper grabbing two wickets as well. Alright, Vernon, one second please, we're having a bit of audio issues, so we're gonna try to rectify that and in the meantime I'm going to turn to my trusted Lance Whitaker, who's with me on set, Lance Stefani Taylor, just giving us a taste of you know who she is. Stefani Taylor is somebody who, once she picks up a bat or a ball, she has been very dominant, it's just sad that due to injuries we would have missed out on some of that from her, it was good to see her back. Yes, she has laboured a bit in the past couple of years, Stefani Taylor with her injury issue, but judging from the performance yesterday along with Chanel Henry, because not only that they got 90s but they scored them briskly, which is what you want to see in white ball cricket and at 32 years old if we think as we really do that Stefani is in the twilight of her career, maybe she's using this CWI Super 50 tournament just to remind the fans and maybe even global franchises around the world that she's still got it because I see where you know with like the 100 and the big bash and you know even the IPL, the WPL that is ongoing, she wasn't a part of that, but if Stefani Taylor is on her game, she's still one of the best players in the world, both with bat and ball, so I think yesterday was a statement that Stefani still has more shots to fire. Yeah, and what about the Barbados team, I know you touched on Chanel Henry from Jamaica, so she got her flowers, the Barbados team would feel you know a bit hard down because one there the defending champions in the Super 50 and the T20 lands, they were without their regular skipper Haley Matthews, but they still have the rest of their squad and Barbados you know being dismissed not even batting out the 50 overs. Yeah hugely disappointing start there for the Barbadians and I would have considered yesterday's result an upset result with Jamaica winning given the fact that the Jamaican team last year performed really really badly and I know that the Barbados team without Haley Matthews isn't the same and I also recognize that coming from like even 2019 when Barbados were double champions as well, a Barbados team without Matthews and the Deandre Dottin who would have been part of their setup for many years isn't the same as the one that we saw yesterday, but I still think there is enough quality in this Barbados team that would have made them hugely disappointed with what happened yesterday because to lose a 50 overmatch by 200 runs is unforgivable and I'm pretty certain that the coaching staff would be getting to work with the Barbadian girls to ensure that they can lift themselves from that result. Yeah Vernon Springer is back with us, Vernon can you hear me? Yeah I'm hearing your Lord and Clay Mariah. Yeah Lance and I was just discussing you know how disappointing it is for the defending champions to be defeated against Jamaica. Yesterday we were also speaking about you know Stefani Taylor looking like the Stefani Taylor we know. Well I think the first of all you would have to look at the Barbados bowling attack and they only they use something they use like six bowlers and they had a pretty off day and when you say off day you're talking about 15 wides and eight no balls, eight buys, nine leg buys a total of some 40 extras so they really were off the boiler but I think they ran into a Taylor and Henry who on any given day can be able to take a game away from anyone and Taylor looks like she's on a mission to be able to make a statement and as Lance said recovering back from some injuries we hope that she can be able to you know stay fit and stay on the park long enough that you can be able to take it to a next level but there must be some major concern as I was speaking to you guys before about how we are seriously dealing with women's cricket in the Caribbean and in terms of the preparation of coming into a tournament you would look and you would recognize for Barbados the defending champions yes there without their captain Haley Mathews but to lose by 200 runs it's almost like a wake-up call to find out what is happening with women's cricket in Barbados. Yeah I'm good point there Bruno and I know as the competition goes on we'll be looking at the different points and of course highlighting them but in the meantime let's take a quick look now at the other matches and the results okay so we have this one of course the Guyanese woman defeating Leeward Islands woman Guyanna batted first and of course got a 142 in 36.3 overs then we had from Rilana Griman 37 Shabika Gajinabi 20 and of course to pick up the bowlers for the Leeward Islands woman would be Shanisa Hector 3 for 11 and Rosa Lybird 2 for 17 the Leeward Islands women's they only got to 86 in 36.5 overs among the batters the top batters Divya Saxena 19 and Renees Boyce from Trinidad and Tobago she was able to make 16 pick off the Guyanese bowlers Zafiana Millington 4 for 10 and Nia Luchman 3 for 27 all right and then that final match where the Trinidad and Tobago Divas were defeated they made 185 in 48.2 overs their top scorers were Leanne Kirby with 59 and Samara Ramnaz with 28 who are the pick of the bowlers for the Windward Islands woman Afi Fletcher she got 3 for 40 Karina Noel 2 for 18 the Windward Islands woman who able to make that total 186 for 8 in 49 overs Janila Glasgow picking up 62 runs and Narissa Krafton 45 pick up the bowlers for Trinidad and Tobago woman Karishma Ram Harak with 2 for 19 and the Steffi Sugrim 1 for 16 so Finan is still with us what's going wrong with the TNT Red Force Divas hmm a whole lot I think when you look at the Trinidad and Tobago team yesterday the only one person really turned up I guess the veteran Leanne Kirby at 36 years old 59 hour 40 balls it's 57 minutes so she really was in an attacking mood 8 416 and sort of brought Trinidad and Tobago back into some respect but the Windward Islands they showed their resilience their fighting resilience by getting over the line in the 49th over and I think that would have come down to you know it was nice to see a 20 year old left hander batsman Janila Glasgow scoring 62 she spent some time at the crease 114 balls 139 minutes so that's good and Narissa Krafton scoring 45 or 77 balls also with 4 4s and 86 minutes I think also what would have maybe helped them over the line would we would have somebody like a pearl Etienne the veteran who came in and scored a brisk 23 of 22 balls 34 minutes at the crease so she kind of more or less stabilized the the lower order of the Windward Islands women's team so not all not all out there shouting because Afi Fletcher and the bowling for the Windward Islands she maybe had a half there she picked up three for 40 and so the Trinidad and Tobago I think we'll have to go back to the joint board and I think it's going to boil down to the young batters in the Trinidad and Tobago team stepping up in a very important game tomorrow against Barbados Barbados those have lost and Trinidad would have lost so that that could be a good matchup. Yeah Vernon I wanted to get a quick comment from you because we were talking on Friday when we were previewing the competition that the Windwards preparation has been good because they did have their Windward Islands regional sub-regional championship in Grenada in the weeks leading up and they were in send kits for probably a week and a half playing warm-up matches and so on and we see the performance yesterday because I would think beating Trinidad and Tobago could be regarded as upset and as an upset result but I think it is part of what we were discussing about the Windwards being one of the better prepared teams coming into the tournament. Well they've gone to a notch up the Timelands their backroom staff they've also got a psychologist which they have employed to the team and so you could see that coming out in the Trinidad and Tobago game where you know they came from behind you would have to say from behind because chasing that score it looked as if Trinidad and Tobago was going to give them some problems but like I said they dug deep and they are on a mission and one of them will still just look and see how they are going to match up against Guyana tomorrow. If we're judging from Guyana's performance against the Leeward Islands in the first game then I think it could be the Windward Islands you know maybe pushing Guyana again tomorrow. Yeah I wondered about the Windwards top order batting though because coming from the Windward Islands sub-regional tournament I saw where Narissa Crafton and Janila Glasgow were among the top scorers and even in the warm-up matches but they bat I think six and seven for the Windwards and they got runs again yesterday they were actually the top scorers in the in the batting so maybe the Windwards could have some concern about their their top order because Crafton and Glasgow that pair they've been doing a lot of the scoring for the Windwards in the warm-up game since they've been there and they took that into the opening round of the tournament. Well I think that is going to be the main problem for most of the team's lands. I think some teams going into this competition they're having problems at the top of the order from maybe one to four and so a lot of the coaches in this championship are going to try to keep up most of their better batters lower down in the order to be able to counteract that. They're just hoping that one or two persons can survive at the top and then try and counteract that new ball. So if we check at the scores yesterday almost all of the teams would have lost wickets very early you know who wasn't 24-4 or 45-5 they just lost wickets in clusters until when you know well Jamaica was in a different frame of a different frame of mind even though they got ball out and they would feel very disappointed. 289 and 46.5 overs you don't expect to get ball out but that's that's that's the norm of the day. Yeah well Vernon still a lot of cricket to play and of course we'll be looking at all the matches very very closely and we're hoping to talk to you again really soon. I want to thank you so much for your time. Yes thank you as well too. So tomorrow's games I think it's going to be a match up. We're looking hopefully that we can get a hundred from somebody. The Lee was not won a game at this championship so they are under some real pressure at home. So we're hoping that you know we can see some more young emerging players Rashadah Williams. We see Janela Glasgow sending a message early 20 years old. So we're hoping you know the Zara Claxton and company can come to the party. Yeah well spring off take care and we'll chat again soon. Thanks again. No problem. All right we're going to take a quick commercial break and when we come back maybe it's Champions League time. You'll find out stay with us.