Lewis blitz is helping Patriots typhoon previous Warriors into CPL last

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Dwayne Bravo’s choice to bowl used to be justified by means of a excellent collective bowling effort

St Kitts and Nevis Patriots 181 for three (Lewis 77*, Gayle 42) beat Guyana Amazon Warriors 178 for 9 (Hetmyer 45*, Jaggesar 2-19, Fawad 2-22) by means of seven wickets

Coming off an unbeaten century in his closing innings, Evin Lewis endured his scorching sizzling shape by means of sizzling Guyana Amazon Warriors’ bowling unit all through his unbeaten 77 off 39 balls as St Kitts and Nevis Patriots breezed previous a goal of 179 with 13 balls to spare in a seven-wicket win in the second one CPL semi-final. A primary-time champion is assured to be topped on Wednesday as Patriots will tackle St Lucia Kings within the last, who completed as runner-up closing 12 months after they have been nonetheless referred to as Zouks.

Dwayne Bravo’s choice to bowl used to be justified by means of a excellent collective bowling effort. On the midway level of the innings, Warriors have been in a very good place at 88 for two, with Nicholas Pooran having plundered 18 within the last over earlier than the mid-innings beverages damage off Chris Gayle’s part-time spin.

However two balls after play resumed, the primary of many dominos fell as Pooran pulled Dominic Drakes to Lewis for 26 off 14 at the leg-side boundary. Wickets endured to tumble ceaselessly thereafter as Warriors’ best possible partnership after all wound up being the 33-run opening stand between Brandon King and Chandrapaul Hemraj. Warriors’ struggles have been best possible exemplified by means of Shoaib Malik, whose horror season got here to a merciful finish when he charged in opposition to Jon-Russ Jaggesar and used to be stumped for six off 10. The Pakistan in another country professional ended with 67 runs in 10 innings at a mean of seven.44 and nil wickets with the ball.

Warriors appeared like they will fight to bat out their overs at one level, slipping to 131 for 8 with 21 balls left earlier than Shimron Hetmyer hit out with a sequence of sixes in his unbeaten 45 off 20 balls. Regardless of the overdue rally, Patriots’ begin to the chase laid naked how poorly the Warriors best order had carried out.

After a sedate get started within the first 3 overs in opposition to offspinner Kevin Sinclair during which Gayle crawled to at least one off 8 balls, Odean Smith used to be introduced into the assault and bowled some of the quickest overs of the event, clocking over 150kmph at one level. However the balls disappeared even quicker to the boundary as Gayle smashed him for 4 fours and a six all through a 23-run over. Imran Tahir took equivalent punishment within the subsequent over from Gayle and by means of the tip of the powerplay, Patriots had raced to 68 with out loss.

Gayle fell within the 8th over to Sinclair for 42, mistiming a pressure to long-on. However Lewis exacted revenge at the offspinner by means of smoking a couple of heterosexual drives for 6 after which a 4 over further quilt to convey up a 24-ball half-century within the tenth over as Patriots endured to stampede towards the objective.

Smith struck two times within the area of 3 balls within the sixteenth over to damage an 88-run stand between Lewis and Bravo, bowling the latter for 34, earlier than Fabian Allen flicked a brief ball instantly to Hetmyer in the back of sq. at the ring for a duck. However that simply made the general margin glance rather extra aggressive after all than it used to be for a lot of the fit. Lewis clinched victory slapping Hemraj over large long-on for his 3rd 4 to move in conjunction with 8 sixes.

Peter Della Penna is ESPNcricinfo’s USA correspondent @PeterDellaPenna

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