Grange hails Jamaica cricketers

Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Olivia 'Babsy' Grange, has added her voice in congratulating the Jamaica cricket team for winning the Regional First Class Championship for the fourth consecutive time after their heroics in the final played in Barbados.

Grange hailed the team as the best in history and had special words of praise for captain Tamar Lambert.

Jamaica's team, led by Lambert, turned in a masterful performance to crush the Combined Campuses and Colleges team by eight wickets inside two days of their four-day encounter, to once again underline their dominance across the region in the longer format of the game.

four years in a row

"Fantastic. Four years straight. This must qualify the team as the best Jamaican cricket team to date," said Grange.

"What can we say about Tamar's captaincy, except that the man knows the game and knows how to motivate his team," Grange added, before also reserving special mention for recalled West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels, who ended the tournament as the top run-getter.

"I wish also to praise Marlon Samuels not only for his superb batting in the tournament but for his determination to do well, having been out of competitive cricket for two years. His performance and approach make him thoroughly deserving of his recent call up by the West Indies," Grange said.

"Again, my heartiest congratulations to the captain, his team, the coach Gus Logie, the technical director Jimmy Adams and all other members of the support team," she added.