NORTH SOUND, Antigua (CMC) — A stroke-filled 88 from Andre Fletcher set Windward Islands up for a 28-run victory in the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship against the Combined Campuses & Colleges on Monday.

Fletcher struck five fours and four sixes from 59 balls, as he propelled Windwards to the highest total in a CT20 match of 189 for three from their allocation of 20 overs in the opening match at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground.

Johnson Charles supported Fletcher with 37 in a first wicket stand of 68, and Keddy Lesporis added 34 in a second-wicket stand of 78.

Steady bowling and alert fielding from Windward then helped them to restrict the CCC to 161 for eight from their 20 overs, with a handful of batsmen getting starts without carrying-on.

CCC captain Romel Currency top-scored for his side with 39, Miles Bascombe made 36, Floyd Reifer got 24, and Kyle Hope was not out on 21.

Currency and Bascombe are very familiar with each other having opened the batting for Windwards in previous years, and they gave the CCC a confident start with an opening stand of 65.

Windwards and West Indies captain Darren Sammy brought the instability in the CCC inningsmade the breakthrough for his side, when he had Currency caught at square cover in the seventh over.