By Azad Ali
Guyana Amazon Warriors
have lost another Hero Caribbean
Premier League (CPL)
final.
Playing in their fifth CPL
final in seven years, the Amazon
Warriors lost to Barbados
Tridents by 27 runs at the
Brian Lara Stadium in South
Trinidad last Saturday night.
Chasing 172 for victory, the
Amazon Warriors lost wickets
regularly and could only reach
144 / 9 in 20 overs. It was
a heart-breaking loss for the
Amazon Warriors.
The Amazon Warriors went
into the finals on a high winning
11 consecutive matches.
It was Tridents second title,
after winning the crown in
2014 in a rematch with the
Amazon Warriors under the
leadership of Kieron Pollard.
Pollard was made leader of
the Trinbago Kinght Riders
(TKR) in place of regular captain
Dwayne Bravo for this
tournament, who suffered a
hand injury before the start of
the preliminary rounds.
Amazon Warriors captain
Shaoib Malick acknowledged
his team’s difficulty in getting
over the line in previous campaigns
(2013, 2013, 2016 and
2018) which was expected to
be a tough battle in the final
against a team which he has
been a part of in the past.
The Tridents booked their
place in the final after whipping
the three-time champions
TTKR by 12 runs in the
semi-final two days before at
the same venue.
The Tridents won the toss
and decided to take first strike
and openers Alex Hayles and
Johnson Charles, flying out of
the boxes, hammered 43 runs
by the sixth over before Hales
was out for 28. At the innings
break, Tridents were 73 for 3
after 9.3 overs.
It soon became 90 / 5 in the
13th over as Shai Hope was
caught at midwicket for 8 and
captain Jason Holder’s miserable
run with the bat continued
as he was run out for one.
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Caribbean Life, OCTOBER 18-24, 2019 47
By George Alleyne
Barbados put a total of five
goals into the United States
Virgin Islands’ net in two
matches over the course of four
days in the Confederation of
North, Central American and
Caribbean Association Football
Nations League fixtures.
In the first match of these
home and away games the
Bajan Tridents were in full control
of the the match which
they hosted at the Barbados
Football Association’s Wildey,
St. Michael AstroTurf, but had
only one goal to show thanks
to a strike by forward Nicholas
Blackman Saturday.
The Barbadians then flew to
the Bethlehem Soccer Complex
in the USVI and delivered four
goals into the net of their hosts
Tuesday.
These victories put the Tridents
at the top of their fourteam
group group of Cayman
Islands, St. Martin, and the
USVI.
Cayman Islands and Barbados
are tied with nine points
from four games, but the Tridents
edged ahead because of
Baarbados footballers congratulate Nicholas Blackman,
11, after he scored the team’s lone goal in the fi rst match
against USVI. Photo by George Alleyne
a better goal scoring average,
eight. The Cayman Islands
footballers have an average of
one.
The Nations League competition
involving all teams from
the Caribbean, Central and
North America, kicked off on
Sept. 05, and runs into 2020.
Out of this the top 16 teams
will play for the prestigioous
Gold Cup, the top regional
competition in 2021.
In this preliminary stage,
teams are split into a series of
groups.
Barbados Tridents
CPL champions
Barbados
beat USVI
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