Tridents ride into play-offs on four-game winning streak
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC):
The Barbados Tridents are the hottest team in the Caribbean Premier League right now after dismantling the Guyana Amazon Warriors by six wickets to record their fourth straight win on Sunday.
Before a massive home crowd at Kensington Oval, the Tridents made light work of the Amazon Warriors’ batting, bowling them out for their lowest total of the season so far, a paltry 99 in 18.1 overs.
Brandon King then scored an unbeaten 44 at the top of the order, while Shadrack Descarte bludgeoned 32 off just 20 deliveries as the home side cruised to victory, reaching 100 for four in 14.5 overs.
Off-spinner AM Ghazanfar was the star of the Tridents’ bowling attack, with his three wickets in the third over leaving the Amazon Warriors in complete disarray.
He began by having Mavendra Dindyal stumped with the third ball of the over and followed up by dismissing the usually dependable Shai Hope, who was caught at silly mid-on two deliveries later. He then removed Shimron Hetmyer for a first-ball duck to leave the visitors wobbling at 15 for three.
When George Linde joined the attack, he accounted for Glen Phillips for 24 and Dwaine Pretorius with successive deliveries in the eighth over, leaving the Amazon Warriors reeling at 38 for five.
It was a position from which they never recovered, as pacer Johann Layne, playing his first match of the season, ripped through the middle order by dismissing Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Quentin Sampson and Ronaldo Alimohamed, who fell for a first-ball duck, to leave the innings in further trouble at 67 for eight.
Ghazanfar, who was named Player of the Match, finished with figures of 3-17, while Layne claimed 3-14 and Linde 2-13.
King then played a responsible innings off 42 balls to guide the home side to a relatively easy victory.
The Tridents lost the wickets of Zachary Carter, Quinton de Kock and Sherfane Rutherford along the way, but a 41-run partnership for the fourth wicket between King and Descarte sealed the deal.
King struck three fours and two sixes in his unbeaten knock, while Descarte smashed three sixes and two fours before becoming the second of Miraz’s two wickets with the outcome already beyond doubt.