The Amazon Warriors will have a last chance to make the finals when they tomorrow play the winner of the eliminator this afternoon between the Jamaica Tallawahs and the St Lucia Kings.
Rahkeem Cornwall this morning led the Barbados Royals to a comprehensive win over the Warriors. The Royals have now entered the finals.
(ESPN) Here are the captains. Winning captain Mayers is here: “Our team is a great team. We just had a bad game the other day (against GAW). Cornwall hasn’t had a great run but we have encouraged him. Azam continues to do well in these conditions. And then Simmonds – brilliant. Emerging to be a great player.”
Losing captain Hetmyer: “On a day like today, they played well. We have to next time do whatever we have to do to win. Today also we backed ourselves to go out there and get 196. Concerns are that some players went down with some niggles. Game wise we know where we went wrong.”
Cornwall is the Player of the Match: “At the start, I wanted to give myself a chance so hung in a it. The energy in the dressing room is good. The guys back us in the dressing room. We had confidence in the second innings knowing we had a good total to defend, but we needed a good start. Simmonds gave that. As an allrounder, want to do as much as I can. Good feeling to reach final. The team has put in a lot of work from the start of the competition.
(CPL) The Barbados Royals sealed a place in Friday’s 2022 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) final with a comprehensive 87 run win over Guyana Amazon Warriors at Providence Stadium, Guyana.
Guyana Amazon Warriors won the toss and chose to field, but Barbados Royals would go on to score the joint-highest total of this season by reaching an imposing 195/5. Opener Rahkeem Cornwall starred in the innings, launching 11 sixes in his innings of 91, while Azam Khan supported with his own half-century.
The Warriors’ hopes of a successful chase were derailed in the powerplay, as they lost four wickets, with Kyle Mayers and Ramon Simmonds proving effective with the ball. Despite the attempts of Shimron Hetmyer, it was not to be enough as the Warriors fell to 108 all out.
Barbados Royals had initially got off to a cautious start, but Cornwall would go on to play one of the most destructive innings seen this season, 91 runs from just 54 balls, to put the Royals into the ascendancy. After losing his wicket just nine runs short of a century to the bowling of Shakib Al Hasan, the responsibility of the innings fell on Khan, whose vital half-century would help his side to 195/5 by the end of the innings.
Guyana Amazon Warriors lost early wickets in their chase, in-form batter Rahmanullah Gurbaz departing in the first over, before a flurry of wickets fell that left the Warriors on 36-4 by the end of the powerplay. Simmonds excelled with his bowling, taking three key wickets, including that of captain Hetmyer, who was the Warriors highest scorer in the innings. In the end, the Warriors finished on 108 all out and will play in tomorrow night’s qualifier.
Scoreboard
Barbados Royals win by 87 runs
Barbados Royals 1st innings
Rahkeem Cornwall c Romario Shepherd b Shakib Al Hasan 91
Kyle Mayers b Junior Sinclair 26 Harry Tector lbw Imran Tahir 0
Azam Khan c Odean Smith b Romario Shepherd 52
Najibullah Zadran c Shimron Hetmyer b Romario Shepherd 2
Jason Holder Not Out 8
Devon Thomas Not Out 1
Extras 4b 5lb 3nb 0pen 3w 15 Total (20.0 overs) 195-5
Fall of Wickets : 1-56 Mayers, 2-63 Tector, 3-153 Cornwall, 4-162 Zadran, 5-193 Khan Did Not Bat : Ur Rahman, Simmonds, Walsh, McCoy
Bowling Ov Md Rn Wk Econ Ex Romario Shepherd 4 0 29 2 7.25 Keemo Paul 1.4 0 23 0 13.80 1w 2nb Chandrapaul Hemraj 0.2 0 6 0 18.00 Junior Sinclair 2 0 8 1 4.00 Imran Tahir 3 0 34 1 11.33 1w Shakib Al Hasan 3 0 22 1 7.33 1w Gudakesh Motie 3 0 24 0 8.00 Odean Smith 3 0 40 0 13.33 1nb ………………………………………………………… Guyana Amazon Warriors 1st innings
Rahmanullah Gurbaz b Kyle Mayers 1
Chandrapaul Hemraj b Mujeeb Ur Rahman 10
Shai Hope b Ramon Simmonds 16
Shakib Al Hasan lbw Ramon Simmonds 1
Shimron Hetmyer c Kyle Mayers b Ramon Simmonds 37
Keemo Paul c Jason Holder b Rahkeem Cornwall 13
Romario Shepherd c Kyle Mayers b Rahkeem Cornwall 1
Odean Smith b Mujeeb Ur Rahman 3
Gudakesh Motie c&b Jason Holder 1
Junior Sinclair Not Out 13
Imran Tahir c Harry Tector b Hayden Walsh 7
Extras 0b 1lb 0nb 0pen 4w 5 Total (17.4 overs) 108 all out
Fall of Wickets : 1-2 Gurbaz, 2-26 Hope, 3-28 Al Hasan, 4-32 Hemraj, 5-61 Paul, 6-63 Shepherd, 7-69 Smith, 8-71 Motie, 9-88 Hetmyer, 10-108 Tahir
Bowling Ov Md Rn Wk Econ Ex Kyle Mayers 1 0 2 1 2.00 Ramon Simmonds 3 0 17 3 5.67 Jason Holder 3 0 19 1 6.33 1w Rahkeem Cornwall 2 0 10 2 5.00 Mujeeb Ur Rahman 4 0 21 2 5.25 1w Obed McCoy 2 0 13 0 6.50 1w Hayden Walsh 2.4 0 25 1 9.38 ………………………… Umpire Nigel Duguid Umpire Zahid Bassarath Video Patrick Gustard Match Referee Reon King
