Antigua and Barbuda Falcons won a tight third game of Caribbean Premier League (CPL) For their home fans in the Sir Vivian Richard’s Stadium in North Sound, Barbados Royals defeated six wickets with two more balls in a pulsating affair.
The royals are two-time CPL winners and had won the last two meetings with the Falcons, but a litany of fallen catches and fluffy run-outs cost them in their first outing of this year’s competition.
Falcons captain, Imad Wasim won the pitch on a damp night in Antigua and his decision to chase turned out to be a way with his side knowing what to do and get the chance to assess the best way to compile runs on a difficult surface.
Karima Gore was called the player of the match, because his second consecutive fifty saw the Falcons pursuing a target of 151, an adult innings saw him unbeaten at 64 of 53 deliveries.
Gore was skilled by Jewel Andrew, the opener who placed 28 of 25 deliveries before he fell to Jomel Warrican, who, incidentally, picked up his first CPL wicket in ten years, Jacques Kallis was his previous victim in the 2015 competition.
The fifties for Quinton de Kock and Captain Rovman Powell gave the Royals the hope to go a winning start, but Gore’s innings proven the decisive, his accumulation of 24 singles interspersed with only five limits was remarkable: “When I went for the first time, I would just be used to the field, but it seemed very difficult for me.” He said after the competition and added that “I am proud of running, trying to stay as fit as possible … They always say that singles are part of aggressive batting. So once you can run a lot with the strange limits, you will continue.”
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