15th September pit two top teams Jamaica Tallawahs and Barbados Royals against each other in the Caribbean Premier League. The game was not just a fight for two points but a battle to prove which team was truly the best in the league.
Barbados Royals sat comfortably at the top with 12 points in six matches ahead of their encounter with Jamaica Tallawahs. JAM with six points in six matches lingered in the mid-table but a win against the top team has now inflated their motivation ten folds.
Coming onto bat first after losing the toss, the BR team suffered a major blow as they lost three wickets at just 17 runs. It was the South African batter Quinton de Kock who held the innings and brought the BR team out of a humbling. The southpaw made 74 runs in 43 deliveries with the help of seven boundaries and three sixes. Captain David Miller also played a solid inning of 34* off of 27 and took his team to a respectable 146/6 in 20 overs.
Imad Wasim sent three BR batters packing in his sensational four-overs spell.
Coming on to chase what was a decent total, JT began in a confident fashion stringing up 53 runs in 4.3 overs before their first wicket fell. Opener Brandon King struck a 46 runs knock in just 33 deliveries to inch JT to the target. Captain Rovman Powell was playing at 5 off 16 when he hit a massive six on the fourth ball of the 17th over. This six proved to be the match-defining moment and soon the rain started pounding and the match was stopped.
The JT fans were on cloud nine as the D/L showed them to be six runs ahead of the par score following the rain halt. No balls could be balled then after and JT were adjudged victorious following number crunching by the D/L method. That Powell six proved to be the differentiator and Twitter was soon buzzing following JTโs nail-biting win.
Here are the tweets on Jamaica Tallawah's win over Barbados Royals.
Back to winning ways ๐๐ฝ๐ฏ๐ฒ
Weโve secured our 4th win after 2 rain delays. An overall great effort from the team to take this one home!
We go again this Saturday at 6pm Ja time| 7pm EST, where we take on the Knight Riders!#JamaicaTallawahs #FiWiTallawahs #TallawahsTallawah pic.twitter.com/lErM1MJn0l
โ Jamaica Tallawahs (@JAMTallawahs) September 15, 2022
A superb spell by Imad Wasim โจ
Jamaica Tallawahs handed frontrunners Barbados Royals their first defeat of the seasonhttps://t.co/zEfJkoE05E | #CPL22 pic.twitter.com/Ls63qiSqtw
โ ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) September 16, 2022
๐๐ Imad Wasim of Jamaica Tallawahs bowled a three over spell of 3/14 including two maidens. Imad Wasim conceded zero runs in his initial two overs including three wickets. Simply Superb! #CPL22
โ Arfa Feroz Zake (@ArfaSays_) September 15, 2022
A bizarre encounter ends with Tallawahs halting their losing streak.
Barbados Royals 146/6
Quinton de Kock; Imad Wasim 3/14Jamaica Tallawahs 126/5 (17/17)
Brandon King 46 (33); Jason Holder 3/33Tallawahs won by 6 runs (D/L method) pic.twitter.com/I3HcxIigFw
โ MostlyCricket (@MostlyCricket) September 15, 2022
Instant impact. ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ pic.twitter.com/KHvMEmDKEs
โ Barbados Royals (@BarbadosRoyals) September 15, 2022
that SIX ๐๐
โ ๐๐ฎ๐ณ๐ (@spycrunchy) September 15, 2022
Kyle Mayers 1(17) playing for Barbados Royals today. This is literally the worst T20 inning I've ever seen.
โ Priyanshu (@Priye0511) September 15, 2022