00:00 TKR!
00:01 Welcome to the land of the champions!
00:03 Welcome to the land of the champions!
00:06 Welcome to the land of the champions!
00:08 Invite the world to the land of the champions!
00:10 Put up a yand if you love Trinidad!
00:13 Welcome back, Kyram Pollard!
00:15 Put up a yand if you love Trinidad!
00:17 The best finish we could ask for
00:19 to such a big event in the Caribbean.
00:21 The Yan Amazon Warriors won the toss and elected to field the first
00:25 in this all-important final that Marshall Montano was hoping TKR could win
00:29 one more time.
00:30 The selectors went with Jamaican batsman Chadwick Walton
00:34 and TNT's Mark Dial.
00:36 The two men were met with the pace of South African fast bowler
00:39 Dwayne Pretorius at Guyanese all-rounder Romario Shepard.
00:43 Dial was the first to fall for 16 of 9 balls.
00:47 The problems would continue for a nervous-looking TKR
00:50 with Walton getting out for 10.
00:53 Nicolas Puran had played well to get his team to the final
00:56 but he rushed Pretorius and paid the price.
00:59 Out caught.
01:00 Kessie Carty played with an objective
01:02 but his patience was unmatched by Kyram Pollard's pinpoint accuracy
01:07 to find Saeem Ayub off the bowling of the impressive Gudakish Moti.
01:12 He made no score.
01:13 TKR were already in trouble with his dismissal.
01:16 Hakeem Hossain would have done well to settle some early nerves
01:19 with Carty after the power play
01:21 but this big shot was too tempting to pass him by.
01:25 Andre Russell may have stood a better chance of clearing the boundary than Hossain
01:29 but at this stage in the game against a searching Imran Tahir
01:32 few would pick the power hitter to win this battle.
01:35 Dwayne Bravo was also a victim to the South Africans
01:38 7 down for 81 runs.
01:41 Pretorius returned to remove Sunil Narine and Ali Khan
01:44 and just like that TKR's first innings was over.
01:48 Carty top scoring with 38 or 45 balls.
01:51 TKR dismissed for 94 in 18.1 overs.
01:56 A song perhaps for TKR to their fans?
02:10 Or would the Warriors fans be singing this after the match?
02:14 They looked nervous as well with Hakeem Hossain
02:17 doing a testing first over against the returning Kimo Paul.
02:21 And he would get him out for 11 after Russell went for 12 runs off his first over.
02:26 Pollard would not give him another chance after that.
02:29 It did not matter as Shea Hope and Saim Ayub played off each other's confidence and composure.
02:35 They were playing like a team that had not won a CPL trophy after 5 attempts.
02:40 Hope was scoring at a runner ball and Ayub was waiting to explode.
02:44 He did so against Ali Khan in a dismissive manner to win the match for his team.
02:49 Khan's second over went like this.
02:52 1, 2, 6, dot, 4 and a 6.
03:13 That's the special moment.
03:15 Ayub not out on 52, Hope 32.
03:18 Guyana-Amazon Warriors break their rotten spell of going trophyless in the CPL.
03:24 They win the final comprehensively by 9 wickets
03:27 and can now enjoy all the chicken curry they deserve.
03:31 304 TV6 Pro.
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