Tallawahs vs Kings, 1st Match at Gros Islet, CPL 2023, Aug 16 2023 - Ball by Ball Commentary

That's that! The home crowd is silenced as defending champions Jamaica Tallawahs start their CPL 2023 campaign with a 11-run win over St Lucia Kings. Was a back of a length ball on middle, he backs away and hacks it to deep backward square leg. All smiles in the Tallawahs camp.

Another inch-perfect yorker on leg stump, Joseph gets a thick inside-edge to Reifer at deep fine leg, who makes a meal of it and concedes four runs when there should have been one. Took it too easy

Knee-high full toss on his pads, he swishes it to deep backward square leg

Cleans up Forde with another searing yorker! Right in the blockhole on off stump. Forde looks for an ungainly slog, misses and Irshad hits Bullseye. The off pole takes a beating and Tallawahs are now on the brink.

Yorker on middle stump, he works it to deep midwicket

Oh, Chase misses out on a full toss and has his stumps disturbed! Not the most ideal deliveries, but does the job and Tallawahs will heave a high of relief. On leg stump, he backs away and the ball does dip on him a touch. Loses his shape completely as the ball hits leg stump

Oh, some innovation from Forde and he gets four for he effort. Length ball well outside off, he shuffles well across and scoops it over short fine leg.

Gets the run out now does Amir, and he gets rid of the dangerous Primus. Full on off, he gets a thick inside-edge back onto the pads with the ball ballooning straight up. He loses track of the ball and sets off for a run. Amir under-arms it back onto the stumps at the striker's end and Primus is well short.

Another wide. He's trying to get away from that arc of Primus. Fuller well outside off, past the tramline again

Attempted yorker goes awry again. Well outside off, called a wide.

Oh, he can't get it away and Amir misses a run out. Yorker on the stumps, he jams it to the bowler, who misfields a touch. Primus searches for a run and is sent back. Amir has a shy at the stumps, but misses.

Change of pace taking it away from Primus' hitting arc. Was very close to the tramline, but the umpire goes Amir's this time

Low full toss outside off, but that was well past the tramline

Oh, dear me, that has been walloped deep! He's flexed his muscles and with some disdain. Banged in short, but Primus is camped on the backfoot and he hammers the pull deep over deep midwicket

Back of a length ball angled outside off, he backs away and hacks it straight to mid-off.

Another low full toss outside leg, he backs away and hacks it to deep midwicket

Four more! Primus is turning it on, and how. Irshad loses his radar, gets this on the full and down leg. Primus heaves it past short fine leg

PUMPED! Low full toss on off, he backs away and pummels it all along the ground to the left of deep cover. No one moved

Another solid yorker on off and middle. Chase backs away and can only dig it out to long on

Inch-perfect yorker bang on off stumps. Can only jam it to extra cover