Tridents edge Red Steel in low-scoring affair

Sun, Aug 4, '13

Bridgetown, Barbados - Sixteen wickets tumbled in 20.5 overs, and at the end of it, the Barbados Tridents had emerged victorious, just.

The power of the Twenty20 game doesn’t only allow for exciting high scoring affairs where teams chase down scores in excess 150 in 20 overs, but also defend very low ones. So was the case on Saturday night, as Dwayne Bravo’s Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel almost pulled off the improbable.

The Red Steel’s batting woes had been glimpsed in their first match against the Guyana Amazon Warriors. However, all doubt was removed on Wednesday night when the Barbados Tridents exposed fatal flaws in Red Steel’s batting line-up.

At the toss though, Bravo appeared to have confidence in his batsmen, winning the flip of the coin against his friend Kieron Pollard and electing to bat first.