St Kitts and Nevis Patriots cruised to a comfortable win against St Lucia Stars as they won the match by seven wickets and 74 balls to spare. St Lucia Stars were put into bat after Chris Gayle won the toss and choose to bowl in the 13th match of CPL 2018. Sportzwiki brings you the match report.
However, the home side led by Kieron Pollard were skittled out for a paltry 69 runs in 12.3 overs. Thus, St Lucia Stars horrible season continued as they are currently at the bottom of the table with a solitary win from six matches.
Dominating performance from St Kitts and Nevis Patriots.
David Warner could not get going as the southpaw batsman made 14 runs. Sheldon Cottrell was the pick of the bowlers for St Kitts and Nevis Patriots as he scalped three wickets. Thus, the southpaw fast bowler was able to dent the home side batting line-up.
Meanwhile, Kieron Pollard was also not able to continue with his good form as he scored only four runs. In fact, no St Lucia Stars batsmen were able to get going as they kept losing wickets in a cluster.
On the other hand, a target of 70 runs was always going to be a cakewalk for St Kitts and Nevis Patriots. Meanwhile, the captain of the side, Chris Gayle dropped himself down the batting order.
Thus the wicketkeeper-batsman Devon Thomas scored a quickfire 38 off just 21 balls to finish the job for the visitors. Consequently, St Kitts and Nevis Patriots won their second match of the season out of the four they have played thus far to take themselves to the fourth position in CPL 2018.
Match Report
Brief Scores: St Lucia Stars 69-10, Qais Ahmed 24, Sheldon Cottrell 3-14.
St Kitts and Nevis Patriots: 70-3.
St Kitts and Nevis Patriots won by seven wickets.