KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC):

World Player of the Year nominee Stafanie Taylor continued her voracious appetite for runs and completed another fine all-round performance to upstage out-of-favour West Indies Women's teammate Cordel Jack, spurring Jamaica to a 25-run victory over St Vincent & the Grenadines (SVG) in the Regional Women's Twenty20 Tournament yesterday.

A breezy half-century from Amanda Samaroo trumped a solid all-round performance from Roylin Cooper to lead powerful Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) batting, setting them up for a crushing, 92-run win over St Lucia.

Tremayne Smartt outdid them all in the fifth round of matches, leading Guyana to a morale-boosting 87-run victory over Dominica, and Kycia Knight guided Barbados to a comfortable eight-wicket victory over Grenada in a low-scoring match.

The ICC, the sport's world governing body, announced on Monday that Taylor was the first female player to be nominated alongside men's stars for the global award.

The Jamaica captain celebrated this achievement, giving clear evidence of her class, when she helped the Jamaicans rebound from a defeat to arch-rivals T&T in the previous round, leading her side past a spunky SVG, led by Jack.

Taylor, dropped twice, proceeded to gather 52 from 47 balls that included just one boundary, anchoring her side to 132 for six from their 20 overs in the afternoon match at Kensington Park.