Jamaica Tallawahs secured their third win of the 2022 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) season with a 34-run victory over Trinbago Knight Riders.
Trinbago Knight Riders won the toss and elected to field, Ravi Rampaul made an early breakthrough removing both openers Brandon King and Kennar Lewis.
However, Tallawahs captain Rovman Powell would lead by example, hitting ten boundaries in his innings of 67 to take his side to 153/7 after 20 overs.
Trinbago Knight Riders on the other hand lost the wickets of Sunil Narine and Tion Webster early, and mainly due to brilliant spells of bowling from Mohammad Amir and Imad Wasim, were unable to find any fluency as they kept losing wickets, ending in 119/8 and losing by 34 runs.
Jamaica Tallawahs lost both their wickets in the PowerPlay and were struggling to score runs in the first ten overs before Powell combined with Raymon Reifer in a 90-run partnership to help their team.
Sunil Narine bowled exceptionally well and was rewarded with the wickets of Powell and Fabian Allen to limit the scoring in the final overs, with the Tallawahs setting a target of 154 to win.
Trinbago Knight Riders once again used Narine at the top of the order but he was bowled in the first over by Amir.
After Webster ran out, Colin Munro and Tim Seifert tried to rebuild, but eventually, both lost their wickets.
Amir struck again to remove Nicholas Pooran as the Knight Riders were unable to build any partnership, with Kieron Pollard and Andre Russell also dropped.
In the end they scored 119/8, falling 34 runs short of their target.
The win means Jamaica Tallawahs have now won three of their first four matches, while Trinbago have lost two matches in a row.
