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The Guyana Amazon Warriors are the champions of the 2023 Caribbean Premier League. They comprehensively defeated the Trinbago Knight Riders by 9 wickets in the final in Providence. TKR were skittled out for 94 batting first before Saim Ayub hit 52 not out alongside 32 from Shai Hope as they reached 99 in 14 overs.
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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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