Trinbago vs Tallawahs, 17th Match at Bridgetown, CPL 2023, Sep 03 2023 - Match Result

TKR turn things around big time to clinch a nail-biter. They were sharp with the ball and the captain came all guns blazing in the presentation. With three wins on the trot, things are looking good ahead of their home stretch. Tallawahs, on the other hand, need to sort out their batting on return. For now, they remain at No. 4 and could fall behind if Barbados Royals beat St Kitts and Nevis Patriots. Rvel Zahid will be in to bring you the action from that game, later tonight. There's WCPL game as well between Barbados Royals and Guyana Amazon Warriors, starting soon. Check it out. From here, it's goodbye from me, Ekanth, and our scorer, Harshith Gowda.

We wanted to get out of the powerplay with the ball. We had played three spinners in a day game and saw the ball spin yesterday. We knew once the field spread, we could squeeze them, the batters would have to go up against the breeze. Traditionally in the Caribbean, our batters are not inept (adept) at playing spin bowling I use that to my advantage and knowledge of having played for West Indies. Having said that, Waqar was brilliant. Akeal bowled three overs in the powerplay, Ali was phenomenal. It was good (to defend 51 off the last 5 without Bravo). Kudos goes to bowling coaches as well - Ravi Rampaul and Nikita Miller. They've worked well with our youngsters. Nothing pleases me more than bowlers coming out and showcasing their talent. Main thing was the bowlers sticking to the team plan. Thanks to the fans for coming out, they've been travelling. When we go to Trinidad, they'll come in. We wanna enjoy now and need to be on the button when the home games come thick. (2/2)

Kieron Pollard: Total team effort. I'm sure, at the halfway stage, people didn't give us a chance. But the belief that we have, way we fought in the second half was commendable. The state of the pitch (was the main cause for 61 dots that came during TKR's innings). We played a night game where the ball was coming on to the bat. Pitch was a bit slow. We were looking to go after the bowling. I'm not going to look much into the dot balls. You guys can analyse it, up in the commentary box. For us, getting two points was most important. We dug deep on a slow wicket, so we slowed down a bit and bowled. So, we can't fault the cricketers. We were able to muster 142 and that was enough. (1/2)

Brandon King: (On their bowling) Bowlers did excellently. They assessed conditions, chose the right deliveries and bowled them well to restrict them to 143. Brilliant debut for Pitman, he has been doing well in training, we thought we'd give him a chance this game and he came up trumps and got us big wickets in a crucial situation. We thought that it was a decent wicket to chase down 143. But it's a part of the game, a problem we need to address as it's been happening in the last couple games We need to go to the drawing board, have some deep discussions and figure out how to get better.

Waqar Salamkheil is the POTM for his 2 for 21 (No interview)

1:39pm: So many close calls. The wide calls given in Ali's last over. The wide not given off Russell's bowling, the singles available but not taken this over, and in the end, Tallawahs fall short by a whisker. They had a great powerplay with Brandon King taking off. Alex Hales couldn't match him but stayed put at the crease. Then, Salamkheil and Russell happened. Blackwood, Brooks, and Hales followed King, and within three overs, they'd lost four. Chris Green took them, tonked a couple off Russell in the penultimate over but fell off the last ball. Ali Khan had 12 to defend off the last, Imad tried to do it all by himself, he got Tallawahs close but not over the line.

Dan: "Think of the bye Akeal had in the last ball of 1st innings and did not bother to run. Almost cost his team the game."

Final ball. Four needed. Super over seems unlikely. Ali Khan needs to ensure this isn't an extra. Hales can't look, he's hiding his face in the dugout. Ali wipes his hands dry. Here we go.

Chants of TKR, TKR go around the ground.

12 for Ali to defend. Around. Imad hasn't gotten going, can he now?

Conferenece on between bowler, captain, and another team-mate.

Bravo signals to Russell to change the angle, which he does

Extra balls to come. How will those close calls affect the over?

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Ali Khan comes on, after having a chat with Bravo last over. Breeze coming from the leg side, notes Ian Bishop on air