Antigua and Barbuda Falcons 168 for five (Shadab 52*, Perera 34*, Hinds 2-36) beat Trinbago Knight Riders 165 fo 6 (Munro 46, Pooran 43, Cornwall 2-17, James 2-23) by 5 wickets
Falcons had begun the chase in rollicking trend, with Rahkeem Cornwall taking 14 runs from the primary over. However he was run out off the primary ball of the second whereas making an attempt to scamper by way of for a single. The following three Falcons batters struggled to take care of the early momentum: fellow opener Amir Jangoo made 31 off 36 balls, Evin Lewis took 14 balls for his 10, and No. 4 Hasan Nawaz managed only one run from 10 deliveries. When Moeen Ali grew to become the fifth batter dismissed initially of the thirteenth over, Falcons nonetheless wanted 74 runs from 6.5 overs and had been nicely behind the required fee. Shadab and Perera, nevertheless, took the chase deep earlier than exploding in spectacular trend to finish the win with relative ease.
Earlier, TKR had been inserted and posted a decent 165 for six, though they need to have had extra. Colin Munro shellacked 46 off 33 balls and Nicholas Pooraz blazed 43 from 17, however past the 2 left-handers, there wasn’t rather more. Cornwall accounted for Alex Hales (2) and Matthew Breetzke (2), whereas Joshua James dismissed Kieron Pollard for 9 off 16 balls.
Sunil Narine (19*) and Hinds (14*) placed on an unbeaten 34-run stand from 3.5 overs to bookend the innings, however finally it proved far too little at North Sound.
