Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) accomplished their league advertising marketing campaign with an all-win file crushing the St Kitts & Nevis Patriots by 9 wickets inside the Caribbean Premier League encounter. Whereas TKR topped the desk with 10 wins from as many video video games, Guyana Amazon Warriors, St Lucia Zouks and Jamaica Tallawahs completed the semi-final line-up. Throughout the first semi-final, TKR will deal with fourth-placed Jamaica whereas Guayana and St Lucia will in all probability be pitted in opposition to 1 one other inside the completely different semi-final.
Participating in with out their premier match winner Sunil Narine, TKR bowled out the St Kitts & Nevis Patriots inside 19 overs for a paltry 77 and chased down their modest aim inside 12 overs shedding a single wicket.
Throughout the completely different match of the day, St. Lucia Zouks beat Jamaica Tallawahs by 11 runs.
For TKR, skipper Kieron Pollard had Akeal Hosein and Sikandar Raza open the bowling. Chris Lynn did hit Hosein for a six nonetheless two balls later he did not clear deep midwicket and after three overs, the Patriots had been 13 for 1.
Bottled-up Evin Lewis confronted 19 dot balls in his 24 ball innings and the Powerplay ranking 27 for 2 in six overs.
Ben Dunk too fell to a top-edge, Pravin Tambe taking an outstanding catch at short-third man off his fellow leg-spinner Fawad Ahmed.
The 48-year-old Tambe acquired a wicket of his private, trapping Joshua da Silva leg sooner than and Fawad trapped the promoted Imran Khan in associated vogue for a duck.
At halfway the Patriots had been 36/5, and every over had been bowled by spinners. Denesh Ramdin confirmed intent to hit smashing Fawad for a flat six nonetheless Patriots had been shedding wickets fast.
After 14 they’d been 64 for six. Fawad picked up two wickets in his remaining over. Patriots had been 75/9 off 17 and they also merely handed the their lowest ever Hero CPL complete of 75 in 2016.
Phillips rapidly ended the innings out of its misery and it was the first innings in CPL historic previous the place a gaggle did not hit a single 4.
Chasing 78 for a win, Knight Riders’ Tion Webster hit two fours off Sheldon Cottrell inside the first over of the chase.
With Narine and Lendl Simmons rested, Amir Jangoo acquired one different recreation and he did not allow many dot balls and gave strike to the fluent Webster, who hit Imran for two further fours to take the Knight Riders to 27/zero off Four overs after which 42/zero off the Powerplay.
Webster helped Knight Riders earlier opening stand of pair 50 for the first wicket all season nonetheless Jangoo fell to Emrit subsequent ball to complete the stand at 54.
Seifert joined Webster, and the Knight Riders coasted to 63/1 at halfway. Seifert accomplished the innings in mannequin with a six.
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Transient scores: Trinbago Knight Riders 78/1 (Webster 41*, Jangoo 19, Seifert 16*; Emrit 1/14) beat St Kitts & Nevis Patriots 77 all out (Ramdin 19, Emrit 15, Lewis 12; Fawad 4/21, Hosein 2/25, Phillip 1/3, Raza 1/6, Tambe 1/9, Ali Khan 1/10) by 9 wickets Participant of the match: Fawad Ahmed
St Lucia Zouks 145/6 (Najibullah 35, Chase 32*, Cornwall 32; Mujeeb 2/28, Lamichhane 1/20, Edwards 1/24, Permaul 1/27) beat Jamaica Tallawahs 134/9 (Phillips 49, Kirton 25, Blackwood 25; Glenn 3/16, Zahir 3/25, Williams 2/27) by 11 runs Participant of the match: Zahir Khan.
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