Patriots thump Tallawahs in St Kitts

THE St Kitts & Nevis Patriots bounced back from their defeat on Friday with a sensational victory over the Jamaica Tallawahs on a glorious afternoon at Warner Park.Evin Lewis struck a fabulous 82 from only 45 balls as the Patriots were put into bat by Chris Gayle and the Tallawahs and they made hay in the sunshine, Lewis and Martin Guptill (35 off 25) putting on 71 for the first wicket.Lewis was in stunning form, smashing 6 fours and 6 sixes in a brutal display of hitting, perhaps only denied a century by a run out after Shahid Afridi had come to the crease.
Carlos Brathwaite pumped 3 huge sixes in a brilliant late cameo, striking 36 off 18 balls as they made 199-5, and the Tallawahs’ chase got off to the worst possible start when the ‘World Boss’ Gayle was dismissed for only 8.
Sheldon Cottrell got both openers and gave them both the ‘salute’ send-off, Mahela Jayawardena was run out for 10 and when Chris Lynn chopped Cottrell behind and was caught for 20, it was pretty much game over.
Tabraiz Shamsi (4-23) and Shahid Afridi (2-10) made sure they never even got close to keeping up with the rate and the South African left-arm leg-spinner Shamsi destroyed the Tallawahs tail to bowl them out for a paltry 80, an extraordinary defeat.

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