PROVIDENCE, Guyana, Oct 7, CMC – The St Lucia Kings won their first ever Caribbean Premier League (CPL) title, with an exciting six-wicket victory over the Guyana Amazon Warriors at the Providence Stadium here on Sunday night
The visitors silenced a capacity hmecrowd frtom the first over ogf yhe 20 over encounter when Rahmanullah Gurbaz only lasted two balls before he picked out Faf du Plessis at mid-on to be out for a duck with just one run on the board.
Noor Ahmad’s three-wicket haul put the Kings in command after they had earlier won the toss and sent the defending champions in to bat, limiting the Warriors to 138 for eight from their alloted 20 overs.
But with their side struggling at 51 for four in the 10th over, Player-of-the-Match, Roston Chase, who scored an unbeaten 39 together with Aaron Jones, who cracked 48 not out, added an unbroken 89 runs for the fifth wicket to help the Kings stroll to victory with 11 balls remaining.
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