Hero CPL cricket Mohamed, Lynn power Warriors to 8-wkt win Ends Guyana leg with 5 wins from 6 matches

Jul 13, 2016 Sports

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By Sean Devers
Despite having to work today, a capacity crowd turned up at Providence last night to see the Guyana Amazon Warriors rebound from a stumble Sunday night when they lost to TKR, to register an emphatic eight-wicket victory over the St Lucia Zouks in match 13 match of the Hero CPL t20 cricket to end the Guyana leg at the top of the points table with five wins from six matches.
Dubbed the biggest party in sports, the fans had a rollicking time as Man-of-the-Match Jason Mohamed, whose 43 lasted 29 balls and included four sixes and a four and Australian Chris Lynn, who made 38 from 29 balls with a four and two sixes, shared in an unfinished 84-run third wicket stand.
Dwayne Smith (32) had earlier added 55 for the first wicket with Skipper Martin Guptill (19) to power the Warriors 139-2 with 16 balls to spare in reply to the 138-6 from 20 overs made by the Zouks despite a superbly crafted 51-ball 64 decorated with seven boundaries from 41-year-old Aussie Mike Hussey.
Sohail Tanvir (2-31) and Adam Zampa (2-30) were the most successful bowlers for the Warriors who travel to Jamaica for their next game against the Tallawahs.
Zouks lost their first two wickets in the first over bowled by Tanvir’s after the Warriors had won the toss in damp conditions.
Johnson Charles played a wild swipe and skied a catch to mid-off before his team had scored, while Shane Watson stroked the Pakistani pacer gloriously to the cover boundary before edging a cut to the Keeper to leave the Zouks on 4-2 after one over.
Andre Fletcher (16) struggled for 29 balls on low and slow track before he was LBW to Zampa to leave the Zouks on 41-3 in the 10th over.
David Miller joined Hussey and danced into Zampa and dumped him for the game’s first six in the 14thafter the Zouks had reached 50 off 11.2 overs.
The Aussie and South African slowly pressed on the gas and added 40 between the 10th and 15thovers to take the score to 84-3.
Hussey late cut Emrit for two fours and pulled him sweetly for a third off three balls to register his 35thfifty from 39 balls with six boundaries.
But just when the partnership was gaining momentum on the slow outfield, Miller (23) pulled Zampa for Mohamed to hold his sixth catch in the Guyana leg of the competition to leave the Zouks on 103-4 from 17 overs.
Darren Sammy, leaders of the t20 World Cup Champions, pulled Tanvir viciously for four and steered him for another boundary before Hussy peppered Tanvir for a blistering four to square-leg as 18 runs leaked from the 18th over.
Emrit got rid of Sammy (11 from 6 balls) and Hussey off successive balls in the penultimate over and from what looked like a 150 total tuned out to be 12 less than that as Tanvir conceded just eight runs from the last over.
Hussey grew up in Perth Australia and the manner in which he adapted to the sluggish surface here was a batting clinic for Caribbean youngsters watching and was the main reason his team managed to score 94 from the last 10 overs.
The Warriors began their chase with 13 off the first over bowled T&T left-arm spinner Derone Davis, who was deposited for six by Martin Guptill.
Watson’s next over cost just one run, but runs were leaking from the other end, Smith banged the first ball from Kyle Mayers for four before the Bajan pacer saw Sammy at cover floor Guptill on nine.
Sammy again dropped Guptill (9) in the next over to dismay of Watson who was already beginning to celebrate. To add salt to the wound, two boundaries including a flamboyant flick by Guptill finished off the over.
Smith banged Mayers for a couple of murderous boundaries and when Guptill, who seemed to have ‘Garlic’ in his pocket, flicked Grant Elliott for four, Providence was on fire as the six ‘Power-Play’ over produced 46 runs.
Smith launched into Davis and clobbered him for six to post the 50 in 6.3 overs and the weeknight crowed were dancing and madly waving CPL and Guyana flags.
Davis silenced the raucous fans when he had Guptill, caught and bowled, to break the 55-run opening stand.
Shane Shillingford removed Smith two runs later and Zouks were back in the fray but the noise level reached a crescendo when Mohamed dumped a full toss from Davis into the Red Stand.
The inform Lynn used his feet to Shillingford and lofted him into the Orange stand which looked like Pink due to exposure to the weather and after 10 overs the Warriors were 85-2.
Left-arm spinner Christopher Ramsaran was greeted with a humongous six by Mohamed and the biggest party in Sports was well and truly on.
In heavy dew which made gripping the ball a difficult task for the bowlers and Lynn’s six, 20 rows back into the Red Stand, brought up the 100 in 12.3 overs.
The 50-run stand came from 38 balls with a scorching cover-drive for four by Lynn and 24 runs were needed in the last five over. Mohamed smashed Shillingford and was dropped by one of his team mates in the dug-out.
Mohamed pulled Watson for another six and along with Lynn who went into the stands to shake hands with the fans saw their team to victory.
Scores: ST.LUCIA ZOUKS 138 for six off 20 overs (Michael Hussey 64, David Miller 23; Sohail Tanvir 2-31, Rayad Emrit 2-25, Adam Zampa 2-30). AMAZON WARRIORS 139 for two off 17.2 overs (Jason Mohammed 43 not out, Chris Lynn 38 not out, Dwayne Smith 32; Derone Davis 1-31, Shane Shillingford 1-28).
Teams Mat Won Lost Tied N/R Pts Net RR
Guyana Amazon Warriors 6 5 1 0 0 10 +0.576
Jamaica Tallawahs 4 2 1 0 1 5 +0.042
Trinbago Knight Riders 5 2 3 0 0 4 -0.160
Barbados Tridents 3 1 1 0 1 3 +0.105
St Kitts and Nevis Patriots 5 1 4 0 0 2 +0.068
St Lucia Zouks 3 1 2 0 0 2 -1.236

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