DEXTER TOPPIN easily survived an lbw shout for a ball going over the top.
Finally, there was an appeal launched at the 3Ws Oval that the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) could take lightly.
Toppin was part of a BCA XI that cruised to a 13-run win over a select Barbados Legends side in an entertaining 15-over tapeball match as the highlight of the National Senior Games Night Of Nostalgia at the Cave Hill Campus on Saturday night.
The night of sporting festivities marked the opening event of this year’s Senior Games calendar, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary.
It was a who’s who of yesteryear as sporting stars of old came out in droves, turning back the clock in basketball, football, netball, hockey and tennis to woo the more than appreciative crowds.
But it was the masters cricket that truly got the spectators’ attention as the BCA staff played against a Legends side led by Vasbert Drakes and featuring Members of Parliament Steve Blackett, Michael Lashley, Stephen Lashley and Kenny Best.
And the quartet wasted no time making their presence felt, with Best putting down BCA board member Calvin Hope off the match’s very first delivery, before returning to bowl some stiff medium pace the following over.
The fun didn’t stop there as Michael Lashley then proceeded to miss another chance off Hope behind the stumps to the crowd’s amusement, after Stephen Lashley followed that up with a ten-ball over.
Even Drakes got in on the act when he dropped acting BCA chief executive officer Deighton Smith.
In the end, Smith and company managed a competitive 94 for four before former Barbados players Winston Reid and Henderson Springer, along with groundsman Arnold Smith, restricted the Legends to 81 for five from their 15 overs.
Four masters teams contested the basketball event, while Maple defeated Combermere School Old Scholars 7-2 in hockey before a Barbados select side downed Paradise in football.
