Falcons vs Patriots, 1st Match at North Sound, CPL, Aug 29 2024 - Match Result

Nortje wins it for the Patriots, and the Patriots have levelled their win-tally from last season by trumping the Falcons in a final-ball nail-biter! Length on middle and off. Nortje gives Primus the charge again and smears it over the bowler's head. Did not middle it at all, but got enough on it, and that is all that matters at the moment. A thrilling game, involving so many hard-hitting batters and it all came down to the bowlers to do the job!

Nortje levels the scores for the Patriots! Full toss outside off. Nortje dances down the track and scythes it through backward point. Deep point cuts it off but not before Nortje returns for a brace

speared in full on leg stump. Shamsi skips down the track and flicks it towards deep mid wicket. Just a single

banged in short but this strays down leg too. Perhaps it was a riposte to Shamsi advancing but nevertheless, it is a wide the Falcons could have done without

another wicket for Primus, and the Patriots are crumbling under pressure! Hard length on middle and off. Zips off the surface, gets big on Nedd and cramps him for room too. He has a swipe at it but all he manages is a tame top edge to short third. The Falcons just one wicket away from a win on opening night!

short ball that slides down leg, and that is the last thing the Falcons would have wanted. Called a wide!

angled in on a length on the pads. Nortje tucks it away towards deep square leg and the Patriots have to settle for a single

into the Antiguan night sky, but no distance on it. Drakes perishes, and the Falcons take flight! Length ball on middle and off, and Drakes thinks he can finish it off with one blow. Gets too much under it, though, and the ball goes straight up. James settles under it at long on, and does the rest. Is that the game?

full on middle and leg. Nedd gives himself room but drills it straight back at Amir, who dives sharply to his right and stops it with his right hand

sliced over backward point! Fullish just outside off. Nedd throws the kitchen sink at it and just manages to clear the fielder. Agonizingly close from a Falcons perspective. Two runs to the Patriots, meanwhile

fullish, angling into middle and off. Drakes comes forward and works it towards mid wicket. Oh goodness. Amir thinks the ball might have scraped the pad before it hit the middle of Drakes' bat, and we go upstairs again. Right off the middle of the bat, and the Falcons burn a review. A pretty shocking review, it must be added!

an almighty mix-up, and John has been run out by a mile! Shortish on middle and leg. Drakes swings like a rusty gate again and jams it off the inside edge into his body. The ball rolls away into the off side and that prompts John to scurry down the track for a single Drakes has no interest in taking. Gets sent back and watches as Zaman collects the throw from Amir and takes off the bails!

full in the channel just outside off. Drakes goes for the booming cover drive but only swishes and misses

back of a length, slanting into middle and leg. Drakes is a little late on the flick and seems to miss it completely. Pings off his thigh pad towards the bowler

off-pace and into the track outside off. Drakes flat-bats it to long on

vociferous appeal, not given! Zipped in full, angling into leg stump. John plays all over it and gets rapped on the pads. Seemed to be heading down leg but Springer was adamant, and he has convinced his captain to review. The ball struck John on the front pad and that could be a crucial detail here. Ball Tracking comes up and....it reckons the ball would have just clipped leg stump. Umpire's Call, and John survives!

shortish on middle and leg. John gets inside the line and lifts up his front leg Calypso style, pulling it enough to fine leg's left for a brace

length outside off. Drakes jabs it out towards cover point and scrambles across to the other end

a shot of the highest order! Springer misses the wide yorker and errs on the shorter side, allowing Drakes to get under it and crrrruncccchhhhh it over cover point!

excellent wide yorker to start off. Drakes cannot get under it and cannot make contact either. Dot to begin the over