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Best performances - Batsmen

Q de Kock
Q de Kock
87(45) 9x4 - 5x6
Control %91%
  • Productive Shot
  • cover drive
  • 18 runs
  • 4x4 - 0x6
2 8 0 16 29 10 2 20
J Andrew
48(35) 3x4 - 2x6
Control %75%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 12 runs
  • 0x4 - 0x6
0 0 1 16 6 9 6 10

Best performances - Bowlers

OC McCoy
OC McCoy
O4
M0
R31
W3
Eco7.75
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W1W
M Theekshana
M Theekshana
O4
M0
R21
W2
Eco5.25
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Scorer: @Thilak_Rama | Commentator: Deiva and Ekanth

Three losses on the trot but Antigua will have a couple days' break to recover. Royals will have a longer break as they return on the sixth. For now, they'll look to stay fresh as they were today. St Kitts and Nevis Patriots play St Lucia Kings later tonight, join us for that. Thanks for tuning in here.

Rovman Powell, Royals captain: Good to start the CPL campaign the way we did. Bowlers justified the decision at the toss. QDK and Cornwall are great. Guys looked sharp and ready in the first game, which doesn't always happen. It's great. Once we have Quinny in our team, it gets better. Want youngsters to pick his brain.

Chris Green, Falcons captain: We were outplayed in all facets. They took the game away from us. Sometimes you gotta tip your hat and say well played. We've got seven games more, long time left. Gotta up our game and make more impetus with bat. Not panic station, gotta front up and play passionate and aggressive cricket. Parents are loving it, had a hit of golf. They've loved the atmosphere.

Quinton de Kock, POTM: We didn't have a big total, knew it was a good wicket, so wanted to give Jimbo the strike and capitalise myself in one of the overs. Wanted to get the odd boundary, rotate strike and bat normally. (Rahkeem) It's only our first game, bats with a lot of flare and takes the game forward. He can do all the hard work after getting him on strike. Hope that continues.

1:20pm: Hugs between the batters. Falcons suffered close losses in their first two games but get thumped here. McCoy, Holder and Theekshana set it up for Royals. De Kock and Cornwall launched away in the powerplay. James dropped de Kock with the score on 38 for 0, that was the only chance, ended up being very expensive. 76 runs off six overs and there was no coming back for Falcons. There was a minor rain break, during which Curtly Ambrose looked livid. But nothing that the bowlers tried seemed to come off. De Kock and Carty were happy to bide time and secure the win rather than going for an NRR boost. But it has gone up to 2.6 after doing it with 27 balls to spare.

15.3
6
Mohammad Amir to de Kock, SIX, Clattered downtown to complete a comprehensive win. De Kock gets on one knee and heaves it with a cross-bat, over straight long-on. Was a slower one on fifth, waited for nicely.
15.2
4
Mohammad Amir to de Kock, FOUR, In de Kock's half, smashed over cover. Just three needed now. This was a pace-on half-volley, driven nicely
15.2
1w
Mohammad Amir to de Kock, 1 wide, Amir leaps away from the stumps before delivering the full ball angling away. Gets it over the tramline, let go. He cries 'oh' as it's called wide
15.1
1
Mohammad Amir to Brooks, 1 run, Length on the hips, clipped off the back foot to deep square leg
15.1
1w
Mohammad Amir to Brooks, 1 wide, Bumper. Brooks ducks under. Looked a marginal call for a wide. Given

END OF OVER:
15 | 10 Runs | BR: 136/1 (10 runs required from 30 balls, RR: 9.06, RRR: 2.00)

  • Quinton de Kock77 (43b)
  • Shamarh Brooks20 (27b)
  • Imad Wasim3-0-21-1
  • Mohammad Amir3-0-31-0
14.6
4
Imad Wasim to de Kock, FOUR, Sits up and gets swatted over midwicket. Not that short, doesn't need to be as it's so slow. Pulled deep into the outfield, de Kock gets to his highest CPL score

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