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GAW vs SLK, 22nd T20, CPL 2021 summary
SLK
134-6(20.0)
Guyana Amazon Warriors won by 17 runs
GAW
(20.0)151-6
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P'ship : 11(8)
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Nicholas Pooran: Catches do win matches but fortunately, we came out on the winning side. I thought we had a chance with 160. We knew that the pitch had help for the spinners and we had many of them. It's tough with a short boundary at one end. All the bowlers were really good. It was an important win.
Faf du Plessis: We played well for 15 overs (with the bat) but that's the thing with this format. It's important to bat well all the way through. They bowled really well at the back end. We thought it was a par total. It was gettable.
Gudakesh Motie: It feels really good. The management has really supported me. I've learnt a lot from Tahir and all the overseas players.
Gudakesh Motie has been named as the 'Player of the Match' for his figures of 4-1-12-2.
Nicholas Pooran is pumped up and why not!! Guyana Amazon Warriors seal a crucial 27-run victory. They really needed this win to not fall outside the play-off race. Guyana posted a competitive 151-6 but they still needed to bowl to defend the score against a strong St Lucia Kings side. And they did it in some style!! The St Lucia openers, Faf du Plessis and Andre Fletcher started well but the Guyanese spinners also made sure that they didn't concede too many runs in the Powerplay.
Eventually, Gudakesh Motie provided the first breakthrough as Faf Du Plessis provided an easy return catch. In the very next over, Imran Tahir castled Fletcher as St Lucia started to stumble. Motie's exploits wasn't over as he bowled Samit Patel with a delivery that went straight with the arm. The star duo of Roston Chase and Tim David had to get through the tricky period and they did that with constant strike rotation and the odd boundary.
However, Guyana managed to increase the required run-rate as the innings progressed with the likes of Naveen Ul Haq, Odean Smith and Chandrapaul Hemraj sneaking in cheap overs. Unfortunately for St Lucia, Tim David and Roston Chase couldn't accelerate despite getting a lot of fortune through dropped catches. In the end, the trio of Naveen, Odean and Romario Shepherd exhibited cracking death bowling skills to seal the match even though their team-mates continued to spill easy catches.
Eventually, Gudakesh Motie provided the first breakthrough as Faf Du Plessis provided an easy return catch. In the very next over, Imran Tahir castled Fletcher as St Lucia started to stumble. Motie's exploits wasn't over as he bowled Samit Patel with a delivery that went straight with the arm. The star duo of Roston Chase and Tim David had to get through the tricky period and they did that with constant strike rotation and the odd boundary.
However, Guyana managed to increase the required run-rate as the innings progressed with the likes of Naveen Ul Haq, Odean Smith and Chandrapaul Hemraj sneaking in cheap overs. Unfortunately for St Lucia, Tim David and Roston Chase couldn't accelerate despite getting a lot of fortune through dropped catches. In the end, the trio of Naveen, Odean and Romario Shepherd exhibited cracking death bowling skills to seal the match even though their team-mates continued to spill easy catches.
OVER 20
St Lucia Kings
134/6
Wahab Riaz
2(4)
Tim David
47(41)
Naveen-ul-Haq
1-25(4.0)
19.6 Naveen-ul-Haq to W Riaz
0 A heave and a miss. Game is done. Guyana Amazon Warriors beat St Lucia Kings by 17 runs. Length outside off, a slower one, Wahab Raiz steps across and tries to slog it out of the arena but could only connect the air. Misses it and goes through to the keeper. Dot and end of the game.
19.5 Naveen-ul-Haq to T David
1 Too full outside off. David kneels down as he sweeps it to deep square leg for a single.
19.4 Naveen-ul-Haq to T David
0 Full toss outside off and David drives it to long-off. He doesn't take the single. Game is almost over for the Kings.
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