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CPL Cricket…Tallawahs dent ‘Warriors’ unbeaten streak with 4-run win
By Sean Devers
If the first two matches attracted near capacity crowds, the Providence Stadium was ram-packed and over flowing for last night’s match in which the Guyana Amazon Warriors suffered their first loss this year with a heartbreaking four-run defeat against defending champions Jamaica Tallawahs in the final Limacol CPL T20 game in Guyana.
The Guyanese fans came out in large numbers to support the Amazon Warriors yesterday.
Led by a solid 53 from 47 balls from Chadwick Walton and 48 from Adam Voges, the Tallawahs reached 148-6 after being asked to bat on a much better track for batting than the ones used for the other two games.
The Jamaican based team then restricted the ‘Warriors’ to 144-4 despite an unbeaten 68 from 61 balls decorated with three fours and two sixes and a cameo 28-balls 32 from Skipper Denesh Ramdin, who was forced to retire hurt in the penultimate over after being struck a nasty blow on his grill from a Jerome Taylor beamer.
Despite being urged on a by a passionate and raucous flag waving crowd of over 15,000, the Amazon Warriors could only manage 144-2 when their 20 overs expired in an atmosphere that was simply fantastic.
The Tallawahs were given a 49-run start between Walton and Chris Gayle. Gayle is the only man with two t20 centuries in T20 matches in the Caribbean competitions, he also has the highest score in a t20 match (175) in the IPL after making the first t20 International ton in the 2010 T20 World Cup in South Africa and although the partisan crowd was supporting their home team, few would have minded an explosive knock from the skipper once his team did not win.
When the pugnacious Gayle departed for a patient 19-ball 11 in the eight over, there was mixed emotions among easily the largest crowd to watch a CPL match.
Owais Shah was then bowled off the inside edge by Beaton three balls later for a duck to leave the score on 50-2 before Walton, who made 99 not out for CCC against Guyana in the last ever Caribbean t20 tournament last year, and Voges took the score to 105 with a sensible 55-run partnership.
Mystery man Sunil Narine removed the dangerous Walton, who reached the boundary six times and cleared it once in his half-century before lofting the World’s number one t20 bowler to Simmons at long-on, while Jimmy Neesham had two wickets in the final over as two wickets tumbled at 145.
The medium pacer from New Zealand, first had Voges for a 43-ball 48 which included two fours and a six and then bowled Andre Russell for a first ball duck before Carlton Baugh was run out for three to leave the Tallawahs two short of a 150 total.
Essequibian fast bowler Beaton picked up 2-27, while Neesham had 2-21 but it was Narine who was again the hardest to score off of as he finished with 1-14 from his four overs.
When the hosts began their reply in the setting sun, they lost Neesham (16), who was promoted to open the batting with Simmons at 41-1 off Rusty Theron’s bowling before Mohamed Hafeez (9) backed away to cut and was bowled by an arm ball from left arm spinner Nikita Miller at 54-2.
Simmons played an array of audacious shots on the lush green outfield and along with Ramdin took their team almost all the way home.
However, a beamer for Taylor struck Ramdin on his grill and forced him to retire with one ball to go in the penultimate over with the score on 132 leaving 17 to get from seven balls.
Chris Barnwell promptly struck Taylor into the delirious crowd just beyond the deep mid wicket boundary to get off the mark in sensational fashion; reducing the equation to 11 runs from six balls.
But Barnwell and Simmons, who seemed exhausted from batting right through the innings, could just not take their team over the line and only managed six runs from the final over bowled by Russell.
The Tallawahs who have now beaten the St Lucia Zouks, the Antigua Hawksbills and the Guyana Amazon Warriors remain unbeaten, while the Warriors’ defeat follow up victories in Grenada against the Hawksbills and the Red Steel and Zouks at Providence.
Guyana Warriors now move to Trinidad to face the Red Steel on Wednesday in a night match which commences at 20:00hrs.
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