The HERO Carribean Premier League has reached its final and we will take you through the Full Highlights of the last match played between the St. Kitts & Nevis Patriots and Trinbago Knight Riders.
MATCH SUMMARY
The toss was won by the Trinbago Knight Rider captain Dwayne Bravo and with no surprise, he opted to bowl first and asked the Faf Du Plessis’s led side to bat first.
The new opening pair of JJ Smuts and Evin Lewis walked down the crease to open the batting for St Kitts and Nevis Patriot team. From, the word go, they both started playing the beautiful strokes.
The batting plan of this team was looking quite clear as Levis was asked to play the aggressive brand of Cricket and Smuts role was to steady the innings for his team.
Lewis was on fire and was playing positive cricket, bu JJ Smuts was looking uncomfortable and finally throws his wicket off Narine bowl after scoring 16 runs.
Then, Narine sent out of form Lendl Simmons back to the pavilions, when he was batting on 5 and then captain Du Plessis also followed him as he was bowled by the brilliant yorker of Dwayne Bravo.
Then, walked in Devon Thomas and he shown some resistance on the crease. Meanwhile, Evin Lewis was playing totally on the different track and was looking well set for a big score.
On the other side, Thomas was bowled out by the Kevin Cooper, when he was batting on 10 runs. Then, Jonathan Carter joined hands with Lewis to steady their batting collapse.
Then, both Ewin Lewis and Carter playing sensible cricket as Carter were rotating the strikes and Lewis was playing his aggressive cricket and soon, he reached his half-century. And after that, he started batting all the balls out of the boundary.
And finally got out after scoring 79 runs off just 40 balls. Then, Sharmark Brooks came down at the crease and fired his all cylinder and took his team total to 180-5.
Carter and Brooks remained not out for 27 and 34 runs. For Trinbago Knight riders Sunil Narine claimed 3 wickets and Kevon Cooper along with Dwayne Bravo took 1 wicket each.
Then, the opening pair of Hashim Amla and Brendon McCullum walked down the crease to chase down the target. But, McCullum’s bad run of form continues and he got out of Cottrell bowling and got out after scoring just 1 runs.
Then, Colin Munro and Hashim Amla joined hands with each other to chase down the target. Remind, you one thing that Amla and Munro are top run-getters in this year’s CPL.
And both were playing as per their reputations. their partnership kicked on and soon converted into 50 run stand. But the Amla get himself run out when he was batting on 33.
After, that every next batsman started coming in and going out. The likes of Dwayne Bravo, Umar Akmal, Ramnaresh Sarwan and Dinesh Ramdin even not managed to cross the double landmark.
And, son Colin Munro also get out after scoring 46 runs off just 26 balls and Trinbago Knight Rider got out for 146 runs.
For Knight Riders, Krishan Kumar Santokie, Sheldon Cottrel claimed 3 wickets each and Samuel Badree claimed 1 wicket each.
MAN OF THE MATCH
Evin Lewis was adjudged Man of the match for his brilliant 79 runs off just 40 balls.
