CPL 2024 Match 7 review- GUY vs Patriots match highlights

Match seven of the 2024 Caribbean Premier League (CPL 2024) at Basseterre saw the defending champion Guyana Amazon Warriors defeat the St. Kitts & Nevis Patriots by a comfortable 40 runs, making it two wins in as many games. 

Rainy circumstances may have made it seem risky to bat first, but Imran Tahir's Warriors showed no such fear as they proceeded to record a respectable score of 266/7 off their twenty overs. Before play started, a rope was dragged around the soggy outfield, but the rainy weather did not slow down the Warrior's run rate.  

Shimron Hetmyer, in fact, eliminated the ground conditions entirely by smashing eleven sixes to every corner of the stadium in order to score 91 runs off of just 39 balls. An amazing batting performance in an inning without a single four. Hetmyer's decisive blow proved to be the reason he was named Player of the Match. 

GUY gives a thrilling score at CPL 2024:

The Warriors' total was just one run less than the Trinbago Knight Riders' versus the Jamaica Tallawahs in 2019—the second-highest total in CPL history. Along with setting a record for the most sixes in a CPL match, Warner Park saw 42 Republic Bank Maximums soar out of the stadium. 

The Patriot's captain, Andre Fletcher, set an example at the top of the order by scoring 81 off 33 balls in response. However, the chase was derailed when he was brilliantly caught by Dwaine Pretorious off the weak spin of Gudakesh Motie in the thirteenth over. From that point on, wickets fell steadily. 

Fletcher's team was unable to rally despite a last-minute postponement for further rain; following a brief respite, Pretorious delivered the winning blow by dismissing Mikyle Louis with twelve balls remaining. and decree the Patriots' third straight loss. In the high-scoring contest, spin turned out to be a deciding factor. Tahir, the skipper of the Warriors, outwitted Josh Clarkson and Odean Smith in a handful of balls with a crucial twin wicket maiden in the tenth over. Both he and Motie, with his crafty slow left arm, finished with three wickets each.

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