Last Updated on September 9, 2022, 7:40 AM AST by Anthony Morris
CPL 2022: St Kitts and Nevis Patriots have managed to score their first victory of the CPL 2022 against the Guyana Amazon Warriors on September 8, 2022.
It was a historic win, ending the patriots’ unlucky spell of the tournament. The Patriots are the defending champions of the CPL Trophy and have had quite a bit of bad luck in the series. They lost the first two matches of the 2022 Edition of the Caribbean Premier League, and the next two games theirs had to be abandoned without even one ball being played due to rainfall.
The Warriors won the toss, following which they elected to bat, a decision that did not work out quite in their favour, as the Disciplined bowling and the tight fielding by the patriots severely restricted the Guyana Amazon Warriors
Chandrapaul Hemraj opened the innings of the warriors and smashed a satisfying 43-run spell, later replicated by the skipper Shimron Hetmyer who scored 46 runs. Although the batting lineup of the Amazon Warriors is full of promising young talent that is capable of working wonders on the pitch, the rest of the batters failed to deliver big runs. Thus, the Warriors only managed to put a total of 162 runs on the scoreboard at the conclusion of their innings, after playing for twenty overs.
With 163 runs to chase, The Patriots, who had yet to win a match in the CPL 2022 Tournament, opened with Andre Fletcher, who scored a total of 41 runs. The rest of the batters contributed evenly, but the Patriots needed a bright finishing even through that. Dwaine Pretorius and Duan Jansen both played quick firing knocks to seal the tie in their favour.
The Patriots still had two balls left when they defeated the Amazon Warriors by four wickets.
This match was the third Caribbean Premier League (CPL 2022) match being played at The Darren Sammy Cricket Stadium in Gros Islet, Saint Lucia.
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