IT WASN’T a happy home-coming for the Barbados Tridents at Kensington Oval last night as Guyana Amazon Warriors extended their unbeaten streak to six victories while qualifying for the play-off round with 12 points so far.
The Amazon Warriors won the rain-shortened cricket match by 12 runs under the Duckworth/Lewis/Stern Method.
Sent in, Barbados Tridents briefly flourished before falling for an unsatisfactory 138 off 19.2 overs in the first of their five home matches in this year’s Caribbean Premier League.
In reply, Guyana Amazon Warriors had reached 77 for two in 10 overs with right-handed opener Brandon King on an explosive 49 not out off 30 balls when rain halted play at 8:40 p.m.
When play finally resumed at 9.55 p.m., the Amazon Warriors only required 20 more runs in four overs in a revised target of 97 from a maximum of 14 overs.
But only one more over was bowled before the rain came again after King duly completed his half-century while the Amazon Warriors gathered four runs to be on 81 for two in 11 overs, 16 adrift of the new target.
King, who hails from Jamaica, finished on 51 not out off 34 balls, having struck five fours and three sixes as he flayed the Tridents’ bowling.
He featured in an enterprising opening stand of 61 in 7.1 overs with left-hander Chandrapaul Hemraj, who stroked two fours and a six in 20 off 23 balls.