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Hero CPL t20…Warriors qualifies for Play-offs with 6-wkt win over Barbados Tridents
By Sean Devers in Florida
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The crowd at the Broward Central Park in Fort Lauderdale Florida last night was as
Dwayne Smith was brutal as he reached a half century as he earned the man-of-the-match award. ©CPL/Sportsfile
disappointing as the Barbados Tridents’ batting as Guyana Amazon Warriors won by six wickets in the Hero CPL opening game of the USA leg to qualify for the play off next week in St Kitts.
A defiant unbeaten 55 from 41 balls with three fours and two sixes from 34-year-old Pakistani Shoaib Malik, who shared in a 48-run third wicket stand with South African David Weise who made 40 from 31 balls with three fours and a six, led the Tridents to 142-7 off 20 overs.
Rayed Emrit (2-24) and Sohail Tavir (2-35) bowled well for the Warriors who replied with 143-4 from 18.2 overs as a shot-filled 92-run opening partnership between Man-of-the-Match Dwayne Smith and Nick Maddison, in only his second CPL game, powered the Warriors to victory with 10 balls to spare.
Smith hammered five fours and three sixes in the even 50 from 34 balls, while the 24-year-old Australian Maddison reached the boundary six times and cleared it once in his 39-ball 50 before the Warriors suffered a little stutter before getting home.
Smith was removed by Reifer in the 11th over, while Maddison was removed by Khan at 122-3 and the tournament’s leading run scorer Chris Lynn (9) provided Reifer with his second wicket.
But Barnwell, under pressure to produce, joined Mohamed and batted in positive fashion as his confidence increased. The out of form DCC all-rounder guided his team to an important win although he lost Mohamed (8) who was removed by Pollard with victory eight runs away. Barnwell (15) and Tanvir (7) formalized the win.
The sun was up until 20:00hrs and hotter than anywhere in the West Indies. The Warriors elected to bowl on a slow track and sluggish outfield and Kyle Hope cut Dwayne Smith for four off the last ball of the first over.
Ahmed Shehzad (15) took two boundaries off Tanvir in the second over before he hit the left-arm pacer to Smith, to leave the Tridents on 19-1.
Rayad Emrit and his Amazon Warriors team-mates celebrate the wicket of Kyle Hope, Barbados Tridents v Guyana Amazon Warriors, CPL 2016, Lauderhill, July 28, 2016 © Peter Della Penna
Veerasammy Permaul was introduced in the third over and was punched for four by Hope and pulled for another boundary by David Wiese and the experiment to use him at number three was working well.
Wiese was dropped by Maddison at mid-off to the dismay of his Captain Rayad Emrit and added insult to injury with a spanking shot next ball, which raced to the boundary in a flash.
Malik joined Weise and took the score to 48-2 after the six power-play overs. Malik stroked Chris Barnwell, bowling his first over in the tournament, with surgical precision behind point for four.
Weise then stroked Permaul behind point for four before Malik clobbered Barnwell over long-off for six and when the partnership was building, a 170 total looked likely, especially since big hitters Kieron Pollard and Nichols Pooran was still to bat.
But Barnwell broke the stand in the 13th over when Weise lofted him to long-off at 97-3 before the 100 came up in the 14th over.
Pooran (3) tried to attack too soon and was taken at deep mid wicket off Steven Jacobs and Pollard lifted Emrit to Mohamed before he had scored and two wickets had fallen in the space of three runs to leave the score on 104-5 much to the delight of large Guyanese contingent in a crowd of just over 4,000.
Although Malik continued to bat well he got little support and Akeil Hosein (5) was removed at 121. Adam Zampa held a magnificent one-handed catch off his own bowling to send Raymon Reifer (1) packing at 123-7.
But Malik who hit the final ball of the innings for six to reach his fifty and Ravi Rampaul (8) who was dropped by Mohamed, who has taken 10 catches so far but dropped two last night, took the Tridents to what was eventually an inadequate score.
Scores: TRIDENTS 142 for seven off 20 overs (Shoaib Malik 45, David Wiese 40; Rayad Emrit 2-24, Sohail Tanvir 2-35) lots to AMAZON WARRIORS 143 for four off 18.2 overs (Nic Maddinson 50, Dwayne Smith 50; Raymon Reifer 2-22).
In the remaining scheduled fixtures in the US:
26th Match: Patriots v T&T Riders at Lauderhill on Jul 29, 2016
(19:00 local | 23:00 GMT)
27th Match: Tallawahs v Zouks at Lauderhill on Jul 30, 2016
(12:00 local | 16:00 GMT)
28th Match: Tridents v Amazon at Lauderhill on Jul 30, 2016
(16:00 local | 20:00 GMT)
29th Match: Patriots v T&T Riders at Lauderhill on Jul 31, 2016
(12:00 local | 16:00 GMT)
| Teams | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | N/R | Pts |
| JT | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 13 |
| AmWar | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| TKR | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| ZOUKS | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| BT | 9 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| STKNP | 8 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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