CPL 2024, GUY vs BR Match Highlights: Shai Hope, Hetmyer And Moeen Ali Guide The Warriors To Convincing Win Vs The Royals
Shimron Hetmyer and Shai Hope smacked swift 50s against Barbados Royals (CPL T20)
Guyana Amazon Warriors sustained their newfound winning momentum by crashing Barbados Royals to a huge defeat in match number 27 of the CPL 2024 season at the Guyana Stadium.
Here’s the timeline of how GUY vs BR panned out in Guyana:
GUY vs BR Highlights: Shai Hope, Hetmyer Lift GUY After Scratchy Start
Guyana Amazon Warriors lost both overseas openers Rahmanullah Gurbaz (seven off five) and Azam Khan (26 off 17) to Maheesh Theekshana and Jason Holder respectively inside the first six overs of the match. At 59-2, middle-order stars Shai Hope and Shimron Hetmyer batted out the subsequent nine overs to take the Warriors past the 150-run mark.
Both Hope and Hetmyer clubbed sparkling half-centuries from their ends during their 106-run partnership, with the latter cracking 57 of those from just 34 balls with four boundaries and three sixes. Their blazing stand was halted by Keshav Maharaj at 165-3 in the 15th over.
GUY vs BR Highlights: Shai Hope Top-Scores, Royals Claim Late Wickets
Shai Hope clobbered five boundaries and five huge sixes in his 37-ball 71-run knock at number three. His dismissal to Maheesh Theekshana dried up the runs for the Warriors to some extent in the final five overs. Theekshana himself and Obed McCoy (1-44) picked up key wickets at the death with the former finishing his spell with astonishing figures of 3-15.
The Guyana Amazon Warriors eventually mounted 219-8 by the end of their innings.
GUY vs BR Highlights: Barbados Royals Slip To 79-4 In Big Chase
Chasing 220, Barbados Royals lost opener Kadeem Alleyne and number three Alick Athanaze to Gudakesh Motie and Dwaine Pretorius respectively within the first four overs of the innings.
In-form South African Quinton de Kock stroked his way to a swift 23-ball 35 and shared a 46-run counterattacking partnership with Rivaldo Clarke for a while, before both were removed in the space of two deliveries by Moeen Ali and Imran Tahir as the Royals crashed to 79-4 at the halfway stage of the run-chase.
GUY vs BR Highlights: Spinners Reap Spoils Of Royals Collapse In Warriors Win
From 79-4 in 10 overs, it did not take long for the Barbados Royals to become 95-8 and eventually to 123-9 to squander all hopes of a successful chase in the 16th over itself. Guyana Amazon Warriors spinners Gudakesh Motie (3-42), Moeen Ali (2-16) and Imran Tahir (2-22) collectively claimed seven of the nine Royals wickets to fall by that stage of the innings.
Amidst tumbling wickets, number five batter David Miller matched Shai Hope shot-for-shot by pounding 71 unbeaten runs from just 34 deliveries. Bludgeoning eight boundaries and five sixes in the process, Miller’s top-scoring act merely reduced Barbados Royals’ (172-9) losing margin as the Warriors claimed the two points on offer by 47 runs.
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