FLORENCE HALL, Trelawny — Jamaica completed their schedule in the Supreme Ventures Sports Betting Cricket Festival with an easy 63-run win over Canada in a Twenty20 game played at the Trelawny Multi-Purpose Stadium in Florence Hall, Trelawny yesterday.

In a batting display far superior to Saturday’s loss to Ireland, Jamaica piled up 174 for four off their 20 overs after winning the toss and batting first, before restricting the overmatched Canadians for 112 off their allotted overs.

Canada’s captain Ashish Bagai provided some resistance for the North Americans with his second-half century of the series, making an unbeaten 51, which included a six and two fours, and shared in a 53-run partnership for the fifth wicket with Usman Limbada who made 19.

Jamaica’s coach Junior Bennett was happy with the display after their failures a day before and told the Observer that the top order did what they were sent out to do. “We set a good foundation from the opening batsmen and that made it much easier for the middle order.”

Bennett said he had a “quiet word with the openers” during the team meeting prior to the start, adding that the pitch was also playing better than Saturday, allowing the batsmen to play shots.

“We had to set the tempo at the start,” Bennett said. “It is hard to play catch-up cricket in the Twenty20 version.”

The openers got the message from Bennett as compared to Saturday’s anaemic display, and went after the Canadian bowling early, scoring at nearly nine runs per over.

There were two big overs where the Jamaican batsmen scored freely, making 17 off Rizwan Cheema’s first over and 22 off Sunil Dhaniram, who replaced Harvir Baidwan from Saturday’s loss to the West Indies.

Danza Hyatt started the fireworks when he top-scored with 48 with seven fours and two massive sixes, one straight back over the head of Hiral Patel into the seats of the north stands, as the Canadian gave up 23 runs in his two overs.

Hyatt, who had made a century off Ireland in their 50 Overs game last week in St Ann, faced 33 balls in 33 minutes before he was out to a brilliant catch by wicketkeeper Ashish Bagai, racing from behind the wicket and diving to effect the dismissal.

Hyatt, who represents St Catherine Cricket Club, put on 64 for the first wicket with Brenton Parchment, who made 22 off 28 balls.

Wolmer’s Boys’ and Jamaica Under-19 batsman Jon Ross Campbell and Donovan Pagon then put on 52 for the third wicket, delighting the crowd with some lusty hitting, clearing he boundary rope with regularity.

Campbell, who made 28 off 24 balls in 30 minutes at the crease, hit Cheema for six over midwicket, then hit Dhaniram for another over the deep midwicket boundary as Pagon also got into the act by hitting Dhaniram for two sixes in three balls after the bowler put down a return chance.

Pagon was not out for 33, while Andre Russell, who hit two fours in his short stay, was not out on 12.

Parth Desai was the only Canadian bowler to impress, returning figures of three for 21 off four overs, while Dhaniram took one for 35 after giving up just 13 runs in his first three overs.

The Canadian response started well with Cheema hitting Russell for six over long on, but they were soon on the back foot as they lost four wickets for 31 runs and from then on it was about consolidation.

The partnership between Bagai and Limbada steadied the team somewhat but the resistance was broken when Tamar Lambert had Limbada caught by Russell on the long off boundary.