Amazon vs Zouks, 2nd Semi-Final at Tarouba, CPL, Sep 08 2020 - Ball by Ball Commentary

That's it from us tonight. Incredible match lasting just 18.1 overs combined. 10-wicket win in the nightcap follows a 9-wicket win in the morning. Hopefully the final will last a full 20 overs for each innings. Come back on Thursday at 10 am local time as the Trinbago Knight Riders seek their fourth CPL title while the Zouks look to lift the crown for their inaugural championship. For Danyal Rasool, I'm Peter Della Penna. Take care!

Zouks captain Daren Sammy: "The way our boys have played, to the Zouks fans, they've been begging for something like that. I told the guys in the dressing room, this is not what we came here for. We didn't come here to celebrate a semi-final. Nobody really gave us a chance. The guys we have, we have effective guys. We don't have guys in the top 5 or 10 in runs but we play as a team. It's a massive effort to get to the finals with the players we have. Like Chris Green said, to be playing cricket right now in these times, to have an opportunity to play and for St Lucia Zouks in the final is a massive achievement. We wanted to win the toss and bowl first and we got that right. If you notice the games being played here at 5:30 pm, all the games with the team batting in the first inning in the day have not scored 100. I don't know if it's the dew falling on the wicket that makes it difficult batting first but I told Rawl Lewis I have a feeling we'll restrict them under 100. But I did not foresee 55. Credit must go to Scott. That over getting two of the main batters out set the tone. And then Nabi getting Pooran, to me he's been the best batter of the tournament and for Deyal to take that catch, that's the kind of performances you want in a do-or-die game. You don't carry anything from before into the finals. It's a clean slate. Whoever plays good cricket on the day... on Thursday we're going to come with the same attitude."

Amazon Warriors captain Chris Green: "It's a disappointing effort to be knocked out like that but full credit has to go to Daren and his team. They completely outplayed us tonight. You can't score 55 and expect to defend it. Nonetheless I'm incredibly proud of our guys. The way we turned it around, had a tough start, we came together. Everything I asked of them, they gave 100%. We had a lot of fun together as a group. Some guys have stood up this tournament. I'm especially excited about some of our young players, Ashmead Nedd and Kevin Sinclair, forcing their way into their best XI has been something I'm really proud of. I've got to congratulate the CPL on putting together this tournament during tough times in the world."

Mark Deyal is Man of the Match: "Walking out to bat, I just told Rahkeem that lets not knock around with this score. It's a small score but sometimes you see teams try to go about cautiously and then they're on the back foot. So our plan was just to make the Powerplay count and that's what we did. It's our vibe and our energy. Coming into this tournament, we gelled really quickly. It was like a family. We were down at the pool together, playing dominos together. Some of the guys don't even know how to play dominos but they were there being part of the team. I think that's 90% of what contributed to our success."

7.17 pm This is the fastest completed chase by deliveries remaining in the history of T20 franchise cricket and tied for the 7th quickest chase in all Men's T20 cricket globally. Mumbai Indians took 5.3 overs to track down against KKR in the very first season of IPL in 2008. Zouks have done it six balls quicker. Previous fastest chase in CPL history was a target of 129 hauled down in just 7 overs in 2017. Evin Lewis hit 11 sixes in scoring 97* off 32 balls alongside Chris Gayle in a 10-wicket win over the Tridents.

Giggity: "Any stats around fastest chases in CPL history?" It's on track for fastest chase in any franchise T20 history.

Green has the ball in hand. He's going to put the final blow on his shoulders. No slip.

Tahir around the stumps now.

I can hear people screaming from Georgetown to Liberty Avenue in Queens, NY for the cornerman to throw in the towel.

I can't remember a semi-final whooping this bad since the NY Giants beat the Minnesota Vikings 41-0 in the 2000-01 NFC Championship Game! Baltimore Ravens proceeded to beat the Giants in the Super Bowl two weeks later.