TKR WOMEN ADVANCE TO FINAL

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Well the Trinbago Knight Riders women are through to the final of the Women's Caribbean Premier League. They defeated the Barbados Royal women in a close contest at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy. They chased the required 130 for victory with two balls remaining. Jemimah Rodrigues the hero with 59 not out.

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00:00Barbados Royals women took first to strike in this contest. Haley Matthews

00:04opening the innings with a Sri Lankan batting all-rounder Chamari Atapatu.

00:08Matthews having to walk back to the pavilion early for just four runs. Who

00:13would step up this time in her absence? Atapatu took on the challenge.

00:19Kiana Joseph tried to compliment her but she lost her wicket with the score on 27.

00:24Shamelia Connell added Aliyah Alleyne to the list. They were losing wickets

00:30rapidly. However Atapatu was prepared to anchor the innings. She

00:40played an incredible hand of 70 of 63 balls. It was a defiant knock and despite

00:46being run out the Barbados Royals would have been confident about their chances

00:51of defending 130 for 7. Samara Ramnath the most economical bowler with two

00:57wickets for 20 runs from four overs. Deandra Dutton like Matthews could have

01:01taken the game away from her opponent. However she was out of the picture early

01:06too. That meant there was room for another hero. In came Jemima Rodrigues

01:11who was dropped early. She kept losing dancing partners in a seesaw battle.

01:16Nation and Knight got out in the chase as well trying to force the pace.

01:20However Rodrigues figured out the puzzle of getting to the final. She finished

01:34not out on 59 taking her team over the line in 19.4 overs. TKR defy the odds. The

01:41two teams will meet again in the final tomorrow from 3 p.m. Sergio Dufour TV6

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