2080dThe Report by Peter Della Penna

Walton special keeps Warriors alive

Barbados Tridents posted the highest CPL total at Providence courtesy Dwayne Smith's century and then made a late victory push courtesy Kieron Pollard's four-for, but it wasn't enough

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

DR Smith
DR Smith
100(70) 10x4 - 5x6
Control %62%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 21 runs
  • 3x4 - 0x6
4 5 10 6 21 9 14 31
CAK Walton
CAK Walton
92(57) 7x4 - 6x6
Control %83%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 24 runs
  • 1x4 - 1x6
9 6 7 0 11 11 23 25

Best performances - Bowlers

KA Pollard
KA Pollard
O4
M0
R16
W4
Eco4.00
RHB
OFFLEG
2W2W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
Sohail Tanvir
Sohail Tanvir
O4
M0
R40
W3
Eco10.00
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W

Scorer: Thilak Ram | Commentator: Sreshth Shah

9.46 pm The team that displayed the better strategy won today. It was an epic game, let's not forget that, but one team played their cards better than the other. Tridents, with ten wickets in hand and despite Dwayne Smith's 100, accelerated too late into their innings and fell 15-20 runs short. On the other hand, Amazon Warriors were smart to send in a pinch-hitter in the form of Sohail Tanvir and allowed their middle-order more stability with Guptill at two-down. The tournament is, once again, wide open. We'll leave you with that thought. Hope you enjoyed ESPNcricinfo's coverage of the 19th CPL match. Till next time, from Sreshth and Shashank, it's adios!

9.42 pm Winning captain Martin Guptill says: "Hopefully we can win on Tuesday too. We thought we should utilise our front-six overs better and we had a chat with Tanvir if he could open. Losing myself and Chadwick in back-to-back balls was disappointing, but I was never nervous. I've been trying to tell the guys that cricket is supposed to be played with fun."

Losing captain Kieron Pollard says: "Not disappointed, but concerned with our performance. Conceding too many runs, and the fielding has been poor today too. We have two international bowlers, and we knew they were going to come hard, but they batted well. We need to believe in ourselves more. The three games we lost, went down to the final over. Smith batted really well, especially since we lost Malik."

9.35 pm Unsurprisingly, Chadwick Walton is the Man of the Match. He says: "It's a do-or-die game so the win will boost our morale. I was concentrating on the target and not the hundred (that he missed out on). We will fight to the end, and that's what we preach and we will continue to do that." Stick around for post-match comments from the two captains.

9.33 pm What a match we had today. One ton, one player out in the nineties, a couple of batting hiccups and some beautiful bowling spells on display. Amazon Warriors, on four points after the win, are now tied on points with losers Barbados Tridents. The tournament is wide open now as Guyana put their hat into the qualification-mix once again.

19.2
1w
Springer to Fudadin, 1 wide, good length outside the leg stump, Fudadin lets that go past him and that's an anti-climactic finish to this game. Amazon Warriors win by four wickets

Nanda: "GAW are making a proper khedgeree of these last few runs. " -- Not sure what that is, but I thoroughly agree.

19.1
4
Springer to Fudadin, FOUR, full on middle stump and Fudadin releases the pressure with ease. Hits that over mid-on's head and that's an all-important boundary. Scores are tied

Pollard's four overs yielded him four wickets for only sixteen runs. His best CPL figures. Who will he give the final over to? Amazon Warriors need five off the final over.

END OF OVER:
19 | 3 Runs 2 Wkts | GAW: 155/6 (5 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 8.15, RRR: 5.00)

  • Assad Fudadin3 (4b)
  • Rayad Emrit1 (1b)
  • Kieron Pollard4-0-16-4
  • Shamar Springer1-0-6-0
18.6
1
Pollard to Fudadin, 1 run, slow and wide outside off, mistimed to point. The non-striker calls quickly for a single and scampers through. What an entertaining over
18.5
1
Pollard to Emrit, 1 run, full on middle stump, clipped off his toes to deep square leg
18.4
1
Pollard to Fudadin, 1 run, good length on middle stump, worked with the bat's open face towards the off side. Sanity prevails.
18.3
W
Pollard to Paul, OUT, oh Guyana Amazon Warriors what are you doing? Full on middle and Keemo Paul, who has not faced a ball yet, looks to slog that over cow corner. Flies high and straight down Williamson's throat at long off. Pollard's on another hat-trick. Unreal stuff, this.

KMA Paul c Williamson b Pollard 0 (1b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00

wow, unbelievable stuff. Pollard stops mid-way through his delivery and warns the non-striker for the Mankad. He could've easily run the non-striker out if he wanted to

  • Walton special keeps Warriors alive

    Barbados Tridents posted the highest CPL total at Providence courtesy Dwayne Smith's century and then made a late victory push courtesy Kieron Pollard's four-for, but it wasn't enough

Amazon 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st48Sohail TanvirCAK Walton
2nd16G SinghCAK Walton
3rd81MJ GuptillCAK Walton
4th0JN MohammedCAK Walton
5th7AB FudadinJN Mohammed
6th0AB FudadinKMA Paul
7th8AB FudadinRR Emrit