CPL 2021 | SNP vs GAW: Vengeance seeking Warriors face table-toppers Patriots in round two

CPL 2021 | Raymon Reifer's all-round show gets Barbados onboard

It was an eerily similar start for the Barbados Royals when they decided to bat first after winning the toss at Basseterre in St Kitts. They lost the openers and the middle order and were soon 82-5 in only the 13th over and everyone including the best of the Royals fans would have thought that it was all coming to a similar end. But there was one man who hadn’t been part of the team’s first two defeats this season and he didn’t know how it was to let go, therefore he held on to it and with Glenn Phillips, Raymon Reifer had an unbeaten partnership of 79 runs in just 46 balls and took the Royals to their highest total this season of 161, giving them something to fight. While Reifer made 31 off 20 balls, Phillips scored a patient 56 off 46 balls. But it wasn’t just in the batting, Reifer came back and made a point with the ball as well, picking up three crucial wickets including that of Andre Russell for a golden duck at that. Thus one change it all took for the Barbados side to register their first win in the tournament and the 30-year-old all-rounder was rightly named Man of the Match. Chasing the 162, set up by the Royals, Tallawahs who smothered it all over the park just a day ago against St Lucia Kings got off to a worst possible start, losing all their top three, all of whom were responsible for the Kings carnage the other day, with only 23 runs on board. Mohammad Amir, Reifer and skipper Jason Holder were rewarded with the wickets. It was hard to come back from there, but with Russell and Carlos Brathwaite waiting in the wings, impossible didn’t seem like a word in the Royals dictionary. Brathwaite did put up a 66 run partnership with Shamarh Brooks to steady the ship. But just as he was about to let loose and allow Russell who was to come after him some luxury to settle in, Reifer struck twice in two balls to crash all the hopes that Tallawahs might have had of a comeback. From there on, with only the bowling all-rounders left to accompany Brroks, only formalities seemed to have been left and they were completed with Brooks getting out on the second ball of the 20th over with still 18 runs needed for the win. In the end, Tallawahs remained 15 runs behind. Brooks top-scored with 47 from 45 balls. In their next assignment, the two teams will collide once again on Wednesday, September 01 (IST) at the same venue.

CPL 2021 | Evin Lewis, Dominic Drakes shine in an easy win for Patriots over Warriors

Guyana Amazon Warriors did come in by beating defending champions and an overall 8-2 lead over St Kitts and Nevis Patriots in their last 10 encounters. However, on the D-Day, they were found to be lacking in all three departments which were well exploited by the Dwayne bravo leed team that knocked them over by eight wickets to register their second win on the trot and get to the top of the points table. Chasing an average total of 147, the Patriots got off to a brilliant start as Evin Lewis and Devon Thomas killed the game with their opening partnership itself. The duo added 113 for the first wicket in just 14 overs and it was clear that only one team was winning from there and it were the Patriots, the team playing in their home conditions with a little bit of crowd support in their favour. Eventually, Lewis did get out and another wicket fell down soon, but they were actions that couldn’t have had knee jerk reaction to the result of the game. Thus in the nineteenth over Fabian Allen, who came to the crease after the fall of Sherfane Rutherford’s wicket only 12 runs away from victory, gave Thomas the opportunity to finish the game by giving him the strike on the fourth delivery of the nineteenth over. Thomas was adjudged Man of the Match for his innings of 55 runs in which he made sure that he remained on the crease to guide his team home. Naveen Ul-Haq and Imran Tahir divided the wickets among them. Earlier in the day, after winning the toss, strangely enough, Warriors skipper Nicholas Pooran chose to bat first. His decision couldn’t be ratified by his batters as one after another they kept on faltering even as Chandrapaul Hemraj tried his best to hold one end. At 67-4 in the 10th over with Brandon Kings, Shoaib Malik and Shimron Hetmyer back in the hut, it looked increasingly difficult for the Warriors to get to a respectable total. Hemraj too couldn’t continue longer and was caught in the deep at a personal score of 39. Skipper Pooran then tried to accelerate the run rate and scoured 20 off a Fawad Ahmed over. But one shot too many meant he was caught at short fine leg brilliantly by Lewis off the bowling of Allen. In the ned, few lusty blows from Mohammad Hafeez got Warriors to 146 for the loss of eight wickets. Dominic Drakes was the pick of the bowlers for the Patriots as he got three crucial wickets of King, Malik and Imran Tahir at the death, making sure that Hafeez couldn’t play the first three balls of the 20th over. These two teams will be back on August 30 at the same venue and have a go at each other once again where the Warriors would look to avenge this loss while the Patriots would look to make it three in three for their 2021 CPL campaign.

CPL 2021 | SLK vs TKR: Butchered by Tallwahs, St. Lucia Kings look to bounce back against Knight Riders

It is not going to be an easy task for any team to come back after being defeated in the manner that St. Lucia Kings were by the Jamaica Tallwahs in their opening encounter. They were hammered all around the park while bowling and while batting it was just not their day as they got bowled out 120 runs short of the target. It was not even close to what they would have expected their season opener to be with new captain Faf du Plessis in command. On the other hand are Trinbago Knight Riders, who, after going down narrowly against Guyana Amazon Warriors in their season opener, came back strong against Barbados Royals and went on to register their first win of the season in a comfortable manner by six wickets and with plenty of balls to spare. So two teams with contrasting last match results will now go head to head with one trying to come back from a disaster and another trying to build on the momentum. It won’t be easy for Kings to come back, but sometimes you need early lessons to rise up to the occasion. Also, they need to bowl Cornwall too if they are playing him in the XI. St Lucia Kings vs Trinbago Knight Riders: Match Details Match Number: 07 Date and Time: August 29, 2021, 07:30 pm IST, 10:00 am Local, 02:00 pm GMT Venue: Warner Park, Basseterre Broadcast: Star Sports Live Stream: Fancode Pitch Report The pitch hasn’t really had one face so far as it has been slow at times and at other times the ball has just come on to bat nicely. Thus to say that it would be a belter of a wicket would be a bit too hasty for an assumption. But no doubt, it wouldn’t be dead bat and totals around 160 will be competitive. Weather Forecast and Toss The weather at Warner Park will remain hot and humid with humidity being as high as 72%. The temperatures would remain in the lower thirties with the moderate wind blowing from the northeast and thus helping the bowlers early on in the morning. A captain winning the toss would look to bowl first without any doubt. Probable XI Trinbago Knight Riders Lendl Simmons, Sunil Narine, Colin Munro, Tim Seifert, Darren Bravo, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Kieron Pollard (c), Isuru Udana, Akeal Hosein, Ravi Rampaul, Jayden Seales St Lucia Kings Rahkeem Cornwall, Andre Fletcher (wk), Faf du Plessis (c), Roston Chase, Tim David, Mark Deyal, Keemo Paul, Wahab Riaz, Usman Qadir, Obed McCoy, Kesrick Williams Dream XI fantasy team suggestion Batters Lendl Simmons, Faf du Plessis, Tim David Bowlers Akeal Hosein, Obed McCoy, Usman Qadir All-rounders Kieron Pollard, Sunil Narine, Isuru Udana, Rahkeem Cornwall Wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin Vice-Captain Tim David Captain Sunil Narine

Ravindra Jadeja under injury cloud, taken to hospital for scan on knee

In what will come as a setback for India in the aftermath of a big loss in Leeds, all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja was sent to a hospital for a scan on his knee. He had jarred his knee against the ground while attempting to stop a shot on the first day of the Headingley Test. He did come back to the field and bowl later on in the game which should suggest that the injury is not that serious in nature. However, a final report on the extent of the injury and its final assessment is likely to be out tomorrow. In case Jadeja misses out from the fourth Test scheduled to start on September 02 at the Oval, India will not hesitate to call back Ravichandran Ashwin who has not got the opportunity so far in the series. He was under strong contention to play both at Lord’s and Headingley but the team management led by Virat Kohli decided to play with a fourth seamer in place of a second spinner in him. Jadeja has shown signs of having better defensive technique against pacers and contributed well in Australia before he had fractured his finger to be ruled out of the final Test of the series earlier this year. India would be hoping he does not get ruled out midway through the series once more in the same year.

CPL 2021 | SNP vs GAW: Vengeance seeking Warriors face table-toppers Patriots in round two

St Kitts and Nevis Patriots vs Guyana Amazon Warriors

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CPL 2021 | Raymon Reifer's all-round show gets Barbados onboard

CPL 2021 | Evin Lewis, Dominic Drakes shine in an easy win for Patriots over Warriors

CPL 2021 | SLK vs TKR: Butchered by Tallwahs, St. Lucia Kings look to bounce back against Knight Riders

Ravindra Jadeja under injury cloud, taken to hospital for scan on knee