GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Shai Hope’s fourth fifty of the marketing campaign was sufficient to see Guyana Amazon Warriors to an uncomplicated six-wicket victory over Trinbago Knight Riders and assure them prime spot within the group stage of the Caribbean Premier League right here late Saturday evening.
The West Indies one-day captain struck a sometimes polished unbeaten 54 off 37 deliveries because the hosts, requested to chase a aggressive 177, bought over the road with eight balls to spare on the Guyana Nationwide Stadium.
With a single recreation remaining of their marketing campaign, Amazon Warriors prime the standings with 15 factors, two away from TKR, who’ve completed their complement of ten matches.
St Lucia Kings and Jamaica Tallawahs, who conflict within the first match of Sunday’s double-header, occupy the remaining qualifying spots.
Quick bowler Odean Smith, promoted to opener, blasted 44 from 32 deliveries in a 56-run opening stand with Pakistan’s Saim Ayub, whose 37 required 24 balls.
Hope then arrived at quantity three to regulate the chase in a 61-run, second-wicket partnership with Smith and one other 38-run, unbroken fifth-wicket stand with South African Dwaine Pretorius (11 not out).
Despatched in earlier, TKR gathered 176 for eight off their 20 overs, with Keacy Carty stroking a prime rating of 83 off 49 deliveries in his first recreation of the season.
Mark Deyal (37) and Chadwick Walton (25) chipped in with essential knocks, however TKR nonetheless discovered themselves restricted after South African leg-spinner Imran Tahir produced an outstanding spell of three for 12 from 4 overs.
TKR misplaced Martin Guptill for one by way of the run-out route when Junior Sinclair threw down the stumps on the non-striker’s finish within the second over with 5 runs on the board.
Carty then stitched collectively two essential partnerships, which laid the inspiration for TKR’s eventual complete. First, he placed on 41 for the second wicket with Deyal earlier than including 59 for the second wicket with opener Walton and 45 for the third with captain Kieron Pollard (9).
His departure within the penultimate over was certainly one of 4 wickets to tumble for 5 runs as TKR misplaced momentum.
Amazon Warriors grabbed management of the chase early, Smith counting fours and three sixes and Saim, three fours and two sixes, because the pair dominated the power-play.
Together with his newest effort, the 21-year-old Saim moved his runs tally for the season to 341, whereas the fashionable Hope, who punched three fours and two sixes, surpassed 300 runs for the marketing campaign.
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