Guyana Amazon Warriors vs Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel 2nd CPL T20 Match 2013


  • Guyana Amazon Warriors
    155/5
    20 Overs
    Lendl Simmons
    42(50)
    Martin Guptill
    32(21)
    Dwayne Bravo
    41/2
    Kevin O'Brien
    14/1
  • Trinbago Knight Riders
    136/9
    20 Overs
    Nicholas Poora..
    54(24)
    Darren Bravo
    23(25)
    Veerasammy Per..
    32/3
    Krishmar Santo..
    20/2
Red Steel middle order collapsed as the Warriors win their first match - The second match of the Caribbean Premiere League saw the Guyana Amazon warriors host the team from Trinidad and Tobago. After winning the toss the Trinidad and Tobago Red Steels decided to field first. This decision was soon proved wrong by the home side openers as they had a 74 runs stand before losing the first wicket of Martin Guptill. The New Zealander opener scored 32 runs before getting out lbw. The Red Steel struck 4 times in 3 overs to control the flow of runs. From 98/1 the team went to 106/5. Some late show from Ramnaresh Sarwan and James Franklin took the team to score of 155 runs. Lendl Simmons was the top scorer for the team in this innings. He managed to score 42 runs. Sarwan on the other hand had a great hand in scoring some fast runs. he managed to score 21 runs of 12 balls. Sulieman Benn was the pick of the bowler as he gave away only 18 runs in 4 overs.

While chasing a score of 155 runs the Red Steels had a pretty slow start. The visitors managed to score only 50 runs in the first 10 overs of the match. For their 50 runs the team lost 3 wickets. The team needed 105 runs of the last 10 overs which required some hard hitting. The batsmen failed miserably as wickets kept falling from one side. The only batsman who tried to score runs was Nicolas Pooran. He managed to score 54 runs off just 24 balls. it was for his innings the visitors managed to reach the score of 136 runs. Krishmar Santokie was the pick of the bowlers as he managed to take 2 wickets giving away 20 runs. He was also named as the player of the match. The home side won the game by 19 runs and earned the all-important 2 points from the match.