Clattered downtown to complete a comprehensive win. De Kock gets on one knee and heaves it with a cross-bat, over straight long-on. Was a slower one on fifth, waited for nicely.
Falcons vs Royals, 4th Match at North Sound, CPL, Sep 01 2024 - Match Result
Royals won by 9 wickets (with 27 balls remaining)
Three losses on the trot but Antigua will have a couple days' break to recover. Royals will have a longer break as they return on the sixth. For now, they'll look to stay fresh as they were today. St Kitts and Nevis Patriots play St Lucia Kings later tonight, join us for that. Thanks for tuning in here.
Rovman Powell, Royals captain: Good to start the CPL campaign the way we did. Bowlers justified the decision at the toss. QDK and Cornwall are great. Guys looked sharp and ready in the first game, which doesn't always happen. It's great. Once we have Quinny in our team, it gets better. Want youngsters to pick his brain.
Chris Green, Falcons captain: We were outplayed in all facets. They took the game away from us. Sometimes you gotta tip your hat and say well played. We've got seven games more, long time left. Gotta up our game and make more impetus with bat. Not panic station, gotta front up and play passionate and aggressive cricket. Parents are loving it, had a hit of golf. They've loved the atmosphere.
Quinton de Kock, POTM: We didn't have a big total, knew it was a good wicket, so wanted to give Jimbo the strike and capitalise myself in one of the overs. Wanted to get the odd boundary, rotate strike and bat normally. (Rahkeem) It's only our first game, bats with a lot of flare and takes the game forward. He can do all the hard work after getting him on strike. Hope that continues.
1:20pm: Hugs between the batters. Falcons suffered close losses in their first two games but get thumped here. McCoy, Holder and Theekshana set it up for Royals. De Kock and Cornwall launched away in the powerplay. James dropped de Kock with the score on 38 for 0, that was the only chance, ended up being very expensive. 76 runs off six overs and there was no coming back for Falcons. There was a minor rain break, during which Curtly Ambrose looked livid. But nothing that the bowlers tried seemed to come off. De Kock and Carty were happy to bide time and secure the win rather than going for an NRR boost. But it has gone up to 2.6 after doing it with 27 balls to spare.
In de Kock's half, smashed over cover. Just three needed now. This was a pace-on half-volley, driven nicely
Amir leaps away from the stumps before delivering the full ball angling away. Gets it over the tramline, let go. He cries 'oh' as it's called wide
Length on the hips, clipped off the back foot to deep square leg
Bumper. Brooks ducks under. Looked a marginal call for a wide. Given
Sits up and gets swatted over midwicket. Not that short, doesn't need to be as it's so slow. Pulled deep into the outfield, de Kock gets to his highest CPL score
Nice late cut to short fine. Brooks laying bat on that from a high back-lift. Gets it off a length from fourth stump
Full on middle and leg, flicked to deep midwicket
Wide on a length, cut to deep point
Arm ball speared down leg, 94ks. Brooks was across towards middle to try and flick it fine. Misses
Pulls the length ball from outside off, to long-on
Couldn't have given more air. It's wide and spins away, square driven off the back foot to deep point
Around
Albert K gets straight to the heart of the issue -: "ABF can't make runs or take wickets."
Around a yorker length on fifth, 133ks, QDK scythes it nicely but finds point
Slower bumper springs above head. 132ks. Fifth stump, QDK doesn't see the need to play it
Length on leg, nudged towards forward square leg
Test ball. Fuller side of length, top of off. 132ks. Defended from the crease, goes off the outer-half of the bat, to backward point
Full on leg, whipped to deep-backward square
Slower bumper is too high. Wide given
Lazy from Imad Wasim, who trods to the right from deep third. Ball was slowing down but he'd given up. Amir yells in anger. Imad has his hand up in apology. He's brought in to short fine leg.
Partnership on a run-a-ball 39. Will Royals look to accelerate now? Amir returns
Lack of pace has QDK toe a pull. Bottom hand comes off too, but gets it along the ground to long-on. Length ball going away through fifth, likely to have been a googly
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Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound, Antigua | |
Toss | Barbados Royals, elected to field first |
Series | |
Season | 2024 |
Player Of The Match | |
Match days | 1 September 2024 - day (20-over match) |
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Points | Barbados Royals 2, Antigua and Barbuda Falcons 0 |
Over 16 • BR 149/1
Royals won by 9 wickets (with 27 balls remaining)