Pitch Report by Samuel Badree:"It is around 28 degree Celsius. Humidity is always high. It is the same pitch that we use in the eliminator. Just as a reminder that the square boundary is just 2 meter differential. 75 meter straight. Sun beating down. Wear and tear present. Cracks have opened up. Slower bowlers will come into play. What the TKR bowlers did better is that they used their pace well. Trying to find the optimal pace in order to extract the turn is required. If you bowl less than 80 kmph, you seem to go for distance. If you bowl at 80-85 kmph, it is better. The more pace you bowl, your chance of striking gets better."
Tymal Mills: "(Getting an late call to play for St Lucia Kings) Got a call at 11 pm UK time, so I had to inform my wife. Landed this morning. Luckily, this team Guyana, I have played against a lot of their batters. Whilst I am coming in cold, there is a bit of familiarity. Slept this morning, had some treatment and then went to the gym. There were the meetings discussing plans.
Tricky, I have got two young kids and my wife works, so had to figure all that out. Hopefully, I will be playing in the final and back in the UK on Tuesday. Always wanted to play in it. Had some offers but some things didn't work out."
Team Changes:
St Lucia Kings: Two changes. Alzarri Joseph replaces Keon Gaston. Delano Potgieter is injured and he is replaced by Tymal Mills
Guyana Amazon Warriors: One change. Shamar Joseph is out due to an injury and Hassan Khan replaces him.
Guyana Amazon Warriors Playing XI : Ben McDermott (wk), Quentin Sampson, Shai Hope, Shimron Hetmyer, Shamarh Brooks, Hassan Khan, Romario Shepherd, Moeen Ali, Dwaine Pretorius, Gudakesh Motie, Imran Tahir (c)
St Lucia Kings Playing XI : Tim Seifert (wk), Johnson Charles, Ackeem Auguste, Roston Chase, Tim David, Aaron Jones, David Wiese (c), Khary Pierre, Tabraiz Shamsi, Alzarri Joseph, Tymal Mills
Imran Tahir (Guyana Amazon Warriors Captain):"We are not taking this for granted. We worked really hard to be in this position. Hopefully, we will cross the line tonight. Want to play a brand of cricket in front of the home crowd, always very enjoyable. Want to be focused and give everything we have.
They have been playing good cricket. The last win against them gave us boost. Today, we have to put runs on the board. There was not much dew yesterday, it is going to be an even game. I am hoping that both the teams play a good brand of cricket which everyone enjoy. We have one change. Shamar (Joseph) is out, he picked up an injury and Hassan (Khan) is in."
David Wiese (St Lucia Kings Captain):"We are going to bowl first. It being a night game, we all know the conditions are different in the night. Stats say that it is better to bat second and it gives the chasing team the advantage.
The learning from those two losses are that you have to be there. For every single game, you always have to be there. We have already bounced back and we know it is a play-off game and you need to give your best. You have to play your best cricket to beat your opposition.
Two changes for us. Alzarri Joseph replaces Keon Gaston and unfortunately Potgieter has picked up an injury so Tymal Mills is also there."
TOSS UPDATE: St Lucia Kings have won the toss and elected to bowl first.