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Jabari Mills' cen­tu­ry gave Cen­tral Sports their first win of the T&T Crick­et Board/Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TTCB/TKR) T20 Fes­ti­val on Fri­day evening at the Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain. The reign­ing cham­pi­ons lost their first two match­es to York­shire and Marchin Pa­tri­ots and des­per­ate­ly need­ed a win against Preysal to kick­start their cam­paign.

Buoyed by the re­turn of Kamil Pooran, who missed the ear­li­er match­es be­cause of the Re­gion­al First Class du­ty with Com­bined Cam­pus­es and Col­leges (CCC) and T&T Red Force, Cen­tral Sports’ con­fi­dence grew de­spite los­ing both Pooran (1) and skip­per Im­ran Khan (1) with on­ly five runs on the board af­ter they were sent to bat first.

Leonar­do Juien (39) and Mills re­paired the in­nings with a 68-run part­ner­ship. Julien struck four fours and two six­es in his knock but was third out at 73/3 in the sev­enth over. Jesse Bootan stayed around for just two runs but he spent most of his three overs at the crease, sup­port­ing Mills and en­joy­ing his view from 20 yards in their 18-run part­ner­ship.