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A disciplined bowling and fielding display by Guyana Amazon Warriors, enabled the home team to ambush and later defeat the Jamaica Tallawahs by 8 wickets to record their second win in this year’s inaugural Limacol Caribbean Premier League (LCPL) T20 Championships at the Guyana National Stadium, last night. Winning the toss and asking their opponents to take first strike, the Amazon Warriors whose skipper Ramnaresh Sarwan employed a spin/pace combination within the first six overs, bowled out the visitors for 117 from 19.1 overs, of which Carlton Baugh Jr 32, David Bernard Jr 24 and Danza Hyatt 18 were the lone batsmen to reach double figures.
Once again, Krishmar Santokie (3 for 20),Veerasammy Permaul (2 for 20) and Sunil Narine 1 for 13)i engineered the visitors batting collapse for the Amazon Warriors, who raced to 48 before they lost both Martin Guptil (23) and Mohammed Hafeez (06) to be 74 for 2 after 10 overs and later 118 for 2 from 14.3 overs, thanks to Lendl Simmons’ unbeaten 67 (44balls, 5×4, 4×6) and Sarwan 24 (1×4, 1×6).
Earlier in the contest, the Tallawahs struggled to get the ball out of the 30 yard circle, as Hafeez, Santokie, Permaul and later James Franklyn and Narine, kept a tight lid on things.
They slipped to 45 for 5 at the halfway stage, losing the wickets of Ahmad Shehzad (07), Christopher Gayle (06), Nkrumah Bonner (09), Jacques Rudolph (02) and Hyatt, before Baugh Jr and Bernard Jr added 36 for the sixth wicket.
The latter slog swept Hafeez for a four, then hit Permaul for 4 and 6 in one over, before he picked out Guptil at wide long on, as he looked to clear that area off a Franklyn delivery and despite Baugh hitting Santokie for a 4 and 6, followed by another 6 off Franklyn, the Tallawahs folded meekly when Santokie bowled Baugh Jr with the first delivery of the final over.
Simmons and Guptil give their side a rousing start, with Guptil slog sweeping Nikita Miller for 6, followed by a deft square cut for four off Vernon Philander first delivery of the fourth over and another two balls later.
Simmons, who was later named Man- of- the- Match, got into the act with two fours off Bernard Jr, but lost both Guptil and Hafeez to Muralitharan, before he and Sarwan steered their side home with an unbroken third wicket partnership that was worth 60 runs from 6.4 overs.
It was a rampant Simmons who took the attack to the Tallawahs, when he struck Muralitharan for a hat- trick of sixes in the 13th over, raising his half century from 37 deliveries while counting five fours and two sixes with the first, which also raised the home team’s 100.
Sarwan, who also struck Miller back over his head for his lone six, which went along with his four, sealed the win by punching Gayle through extra cover, enabling the Amazon Warriors to join the Barbados Trident as the lone unbeaten teams.
Once again, Krishmar Santokie (3 for 20),Veerasammy Permaul (2 for 20) and Sunil Narine 1 for 13)i engineered the visitors batting collapse for the Amazon Warriors, who raced to 48 before they lost both Martin Guptil (23) and Mohammed Hafeez (06) to be 74 for 2 after 10 overs and later 118 for 2 from 14.3 overs, thanks to Lendl Simmons’ unbeaten 67 (44balls, 5×4, 4×6) and Sarwan 24 (1×4, 1×6).
Earlier in the contest, the Tallawahs struggled to get the ball out of the 30 yard circle, as Hafeez, Santokie, Permaul and later James Franklyn and Narine, kept a tight lid on things.
They slipped to 45 for 5 at the halfway stage, losing the wickets of Ahmad Shehzad (07), Christopher Gayle (06), Nkrumah Bonner (09), Jacques Rudolph (02) and Hyatt, before Baugh Jr and Bernard Jr added 36 for the sixth wicket.
The latter slog swept Hafeez for a four, then hit Permaul for 4 and 6 in one over, before he picked out Guptil at wide long on, as he looked to clear that area off a Franklyn delivery and despite Baugh hitting Santokie for a 4 and 6, followed by another 6 off Franklyn, the Tallawahs folded meekly when Santokie bowled Baugh Jr with the first delivery of the final over.
Simmons and Guptil give their side a rousing start, with Guptil slog sweeping Nikita Miller for 6, followed by a deft square cut for four off Vernon Philander first delivery of the fourth over and another two balls later.
Simmons, who was later named Man- of- the- Match, got into the act with two fours off Bernard Jr, but lost both Guptil and Hafeez to Muralitharan, before he and Sarwan steered their side home with an unbroken third wicket partnership that was worth 60 runs from 6.4 overs.
It was a rampant Simmons who took the attack to the Tallawahs, when he struck Muralitharan for a hat- trick of sixes in the 13th over, raising his half century from 37 deliveries while counting five fours and two sixes with the first, which also raised the home team’s 100.
Sarwan, who also struck Miller back over his head for his lone six, which went along with his four, sealed the win by punching Gayle through extra cover, enabling the Amazon Warriors to join the Barbados Trident as the lone unbeaten teams.
