Latest update November 29th, 2024 1:00 AM
Bravos spearhead Red Steel to 27-run win
– books spot against Warriors tomorrow
By Sean Devers in Trinidad in association with Bounty Supermarket, Carib Beer, Leisure Inn, Noble House Seafoods & Payless Varity Store
A breathtaking unbeaten 86 from 63 ball decorated with four fours and six sixes from Man-of-the-Match Darren Bravo and a five wicket haul from his brother Dwayne provided the T&T Red Steel with a big 27-run win over the Jamaica Tallawahs to book a place against the Guyana Amazon Warriors tomorrow in the second Hero CPL Play-off game at the Queens Park Oval last night.
The 26-year-old left-handed Bravo passed his highest T20 score of 82 not out and added 80 from 62 balls with Jason Mohamed who made 28 from 25 to take the home Franchise to 152-6 from a precarious 18-3.
Jermaine Taylor took 2-28 for the Tallawahs who were bowled out 125 off 19.3 overs as Dwayne Bravo captured 5-23 from fours overs to take his wicket tally to 26, 10 more than the second highest wicket-taker.
Chris Gayle, who much rested on if his team were to win, hit Jacques Kallis for a four behind point off the third ball of the innings and hammered the South African for consecutive sixes, fell in the fifth over after adding 38 with Mahela Jayawardene.
Gayle’s cameo 30 from 21 balls and included two fours and three sixes and his early demise started a non-stop party in the 
party Capital of the World.
Jayawardene stroked two delightful boundaries to get his innings started and along with Chadwick Walton was just beginning to build a recovery when a shocking Umpiring decision by Austrailan John Ward give the Sri Lankan caught at slip off his forearm off Suleiman Benn for 16 at 66-2 in the 9th over.
Chadwick Walton and Jermaine Blackwood pushed the score to 97 before Blackwood (23) departed to Bravo in the 14th over to bring Russell to the crease but when the dynamic Bravo bowled Russell (6) at 104-4 in the 16th over and Walton bowled by Kevin Cooper for a 30-ball 31, six runs later it was the end of the road for the Tallawahs.
Earlier, the Red Steel won the toss and opted to bat on a two-paced track as the Tallawahs made a couple of forced changes leaving out the injured Rusty Theron and Daniel Vettori who had to leave because of illness to his daughter but were off to a terrible start.
Dwayne Bravo led from the front
for the Red Steel taking 5-23. (CPL)
Cameron Delport was bowled by Krishmar Santokie at 3-1in the opening over. Kallis, who did not seem to want to bat, was badly dropped at third man by Nikita Miller off Santokie as the ball went for four. But in the next over the 39-year-old tried to hit a ball through the on-side and was taken at mid-off to give Jerome Taylor his first wicket at 7-2 in the 4th.
Darren Bravo got going with a majestic cover drive off Santokie and pulled Russell for six while Kamran Akmal slapped Taylor behind point for a boundary but was soon dismissed for six at 18-3.
Bravo and Mohamed joined forces and launched ‘operation rebuild’ as they added 80 runs from 64 balls for the fourth wicket stand much to the enjoyment of the less than capacity crowd who were dancing in stands to spicy Tassa drumming in the sunset of the Twin Island Republic.
Mohamed stroked off-spinner Narsingh Deonarine behind point for four while Bravo smashed Taylor to the boundary before dumping Andre Russell for a flat six and raced to his second 50 in this competition from 42 balls while Mohamed edged
HITTING OUT! Darren Bravo smashed
six maximums out of the park. (CPL)
Taylor for four to gallop into the 30s. Bravo spanked Taylor for an audacious boundary through point and the Trini fans decked out in red, loved it.
But Mohamed, who hit 28 from 25 balls, tried to hit Deonarine out of the ground but only succeeded in being caught at long on. Bravo wadded into Santokie and clobbered him for a massive six at the start of the 16th over. The left-arm pacer followed it up with three wides under a clear night sky and brightly shining floodlights.
Dwayne Bravo (5) was soon taken in the deep off Miller at 121-5 in the 17th over but his younger sibling was not done yet and pounced on Taylor and smashed him for four while Cooper hit the West Indies pacer back over his head for six.
Cooper (9) was caught and bowled by Russell at 137-6 and Johan Botha handed Bravo the strike off the first ball off the final and the crowd were chanting ‘BRAVO, BRAVO’ as Santokie ran in. The elegant Bravo hit a six onto the sightscreen to go past his highest t20 score of 82 not out but could only manage four more runs off the over which cost 11.
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