WCPL ROYALS BEAT TKR

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Hayley Matthews was the star of the show for the Barbados Royals who defeated the Trinbago Knight Riders in their opening match of the Women's Caribbean Premier League. Matthews scored an unbeaten 67 as the Royals chased the 114 runs needed for victory to follow up a good effort in the field at the Tarouba Stadium.

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00:00The Barbados Royals won the toss and opted to bowl first. Kassia Knight would want to forget this match she made a duck

00:07Harshita Samarikwara got off the mark, but when she got on three Chanel Henry took her wicket as well

00:13Jemima Rodriguez and Deandra Dutton put some resistance up for the Knight Riders

00:19However TKR would lose wickets at regular intervals

00:24She comes into the attack

00:26She was impressive yesterday, and she's picked up another big wicket

00:31The progress seemed uncertain. Oh, it's another brilliant catch and they looked nervous

00:41Shikha Pandey needed to do something different to upset the order

00:44She played well for her 30 runs and when Dutton went for 28 the remaining batters needed to rally around Pandey

00:52She stuck around long enough as TKR crossed the 100 mark

00:56More importantly they batted out the overs as they got to 113 for 9 of 20 overs

01:02Two wickets each for Hayley Matthews, Henry and Amanda Jade Wellington

01:07Speaking of Matthews for cricket fans there. It was a delight watching her bat

01:12TKR did manage to get an early wicket that of Chamari Atapatu LBW for five

01:18However, Matthews showed just how much she loved the cricket. The Windies captain looked at home at the wicket

01:24The TKR bowlers tried to pull things back and they removed Kiyana Joseph

01:30It's an opportunity and it's taken

01:33Laura Harris stuck it out with Matthews who finished not out on 67 or 56 balls

01:38They win their second match of the tournament by seven wickets with 17 balls to spare Sergio Dufort, TB6port

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