Early wickets fail to stop Jamaica Tallawahs romping home at Hero CPL

Sat, Jul 16, '16

A remarkable match at Sabina Park saw the Jamaica Tallawahs recover from the loss of four wickets in seven balls at the start of their innings to defeat the Guyana Amazon Warriors in the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL). The Amazon Warriors batted first and set a sub-par total that should have been simple for the Tallawahs powerful batting line up to chase down. In the end runs from Chris Gayle and Shakib al Hasan saw them home with 25 balls to spare but they didn’t do it the easy way.

Four wickets fell for just two runs as the Tallawahs chase got off to an almost unimaginably poor start. Gayle was not allowed to open the batting due to leaving the field with a back injury. He had to wait to bat as he watched helplessly as his top order collapsed. Gayle needed to sit out 18 minutes of the Tallawahs innings, few would have expected them to be this eventful.

Perhaps the Tallawahs could have looked to defend when confronted with such a terrible start, but Andre Russell took the attack to the Amazon Warriors on his way to 24 (15). He departed to a superb catch from Adam Zampa at square leg and finally Gayle walked to the crease with the score at 45-5.