Royals defeat Patriots to extend lead

Sep 22, 2022 Sports

2022 Hero Caribbean Premier League…

By Sean Devers

Tournament Leaders, Barbados Royals, extended their lead on the points table when they defeated St Kitts & Nevis Patriots by 36 runs as the Guyana leg of the 2022 Hero CPL commenced on Wednesday morning at the well-manicured Providence Stadium.

Students had the opportunity to witness some of the Caribbean’s finest cricketing talents.

Barbados Royals have moved on to 16 points from eight wins. (Getty Images)

Harry Tector (left) and Azam Khan added 102 runs for the third wicket. (Getty Images)

Devon Thomas reacts to Mujeed Ur Rahman bowling SKNP’s top scorer, Evin Lewis. (Getty Images)

Royals, on the back of a shot-filled 64 from Azam Khan, who faced 44 balls with five fours and five sixes, and an undefeated 47 from 44 balls from Harry Tector, who reached the ropes three times and cleared it twice, reached 156-3 when their 20 overs expired.

The Patriots responded with 120 all out in 19.3 overs as only Evin Lewis, who hit seven boundaries from 36 balls in 41, looked threatening as Nyeem Young took 3 – 5, Mujeeb Ur Rahman claimed 3 – 18 and Jason Holder snagged 2 – 31 for Royals. This was their eighth win in nine matches which took their tally to 16 points.

On a bright and sunny day, only the partially populated Green stand was opened to the public while the Red Stand, reserved by the Guyana Government for the over 3000 school children, was almost filled to capacity.

The Royals were asked to bat on a good track which favoured the spinners. The burly Rakeem Cornwall (6) departed in the fourth over when Duan Jansen made the break-through at 22-1.

Tector and Khan then joined forces after Akila Dananjaya struck a crucial blow; inducing the in-form Kyle Mayers, who edged a ball that shaped away from him to the keeper, after hitting three fours in his score of 16. Royals were 46 – 2.

Khan, who reached his fifty from 38 balls with fours and two sixes, played several scintillating shots while Tector played an excellent supporting knock. Their 100-run partnership was brought up from just 76 balls.

The pair eventually added 102 for the third wicket before Khan provided Andre Fletcher with his second catch in the final over, while Jason Holder, on eight, was the other unbeaten batter when the overs expired.

Later in the day, the Patriots began their chase positively much to the delight of the excited students who waved the St Kitts & Nevis Flags and blew horns which mimicked the sounded of 10,000 fans in the stadium.

With score on 46 in the seventh over, Fletcher, firmly in on 20 from 21 balls (2×4, 1×6), swept a delivery from Mujeeb Ur Rahman to Joshua Bishop on the deep square leg boundary to give Royals the breakthrough.

Sherfane Rutherford, on home soil, clobbered leg-spinner Hayden Walsh for six before he was caught in the deep off Cornwall for nine. Patriots were 72 – 2 in the 12^th over.

The 30-year-old Lewis soon after provided Ur Rahman with his second scalp at 73-3 in the 15th over, after hitting a shot-filled 41 from 36 balls, inclusive of seven boundaries.

Lewis, picked in the West Indies T20 World Cup squad, was looking set for a fifty when he edged a short ball onto his pad and it rolled back onto his stumps.

When South African Dewald Brevis, who offered some fight with 21, was removed by Young at 100-4, the Patriots lost their last seven wickets for 20 runs as Young and Ur Rahman cut though the batting line like a hot knife slicing through butter.

Match details: Barbados Royals 156/3 (Khan 64, Tector 47*; Dananjaya 1/25, Jansen 1/32) beat St Kitts and Nevis Patriots 120 all out (Lewis 41, Brevis 21; Young 3/5, Mujeeb 3/18) by 36 runs

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