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In their previous game, Guyana Amazon Warriors (GAW) defenꦫded the lowest total in the history of Caribbean Premier League (CPL). But, the team failed to reach an ordinary target of 💫145 in their fourth mat𒁏ch of the tournament.
Thanks to medium pace display from Chemar Holder (2/32) and Scott Kuggelejin (3/24) of St Lucia Zouks (SLZ) that led to such happening as they managed to def🎀eat five-time runner-up of CPL by 10 runs.
Kuggeleijn picked up two wickets in his first over when he dismissed Warriors’ opener, Brandon King (1) and No.3 in-form batsman Shimron Hetmyer (4). Then came experienced New Zealand international Ross Taylor but he looked completely out of touch.
Taylor scored 1 off 12 balls befo♔re allrounder Mohammad Nabi (1/17) ended his painful innings to leave Guyana at 7 for 3 in t꧂he fifth over.
Warriors wicket-keeper batsman Nicholas Pooran (68) did play a gutsy knock in the middle of the ♉chase and reached🐓 his fifty.
Pooran took the team’s total to 124 before being outdone by a slower ball from Kesrick Williams (2/32) in the 19th over of the innings.
The latest half century goes to Guyana Amazon Warrior Nic𓃲holas Pooran. Congratulations 🎉🎊🎈
— CPL T20 (@CPL)
Holder’s peach of a delivery to Rutherford:
After the end of the 19th over, Guyana needed 13 runs to get the better off Zouks, but a relati♉vely young Holder held his nerve. He ended the show of Rutherford (15) with a brilliant🐷 yorker.
The left-handed batsman wa𓃲s slow to pick up the ball which shattered his stumps. Under pressure, Holder 🍸delivered the magic moment.
ABSOLUTE JAFFA!!! Under pressure Holder delivers and w๊ins the Googly magic moment.
— CPL T20 (@CPL)
Holder then sent skipper Chris Green (1) back to the dugout to restrict Warriors at 134-8.
Earlier, in the first innings, Roston Chase’s fighting half-century took Zouks to a competitive score of 144-7. At one stage, Zouks were struggling at 42-4 before Chase, and Mohammad Nabi (27) joined hands for a cruc♔ial 57-run stand for the fifth wicket to steady the 𝓰innings.
Chase blazed up the Zouks fire with t⛎his half century.
— Saint Lucia Kings (@SaintLuciaKings)
Imran Tahir (3/22), who had already taken 2 wickets by then, ended the vital partnership by picking up the wicket of Nabi. But Chase (66) stood his end and kept on tickling the scoreboard. The allrounder built another critical 43-run partnership for the sixth wicket with Javelle Glen (19).
For Warr🍌iors, apart from Tahir, Odean Smith bagged two wickets, while Ashmead Nedd and Green earned one-scalp each.
Zouks with three wins out of four matches reached the second spot in the points table headed by Trinbago Knight Riders. In comparison, Guyana is in third place.
