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Amazon Warriors clinch playoff berth with win over Tridents
- Updated: July 29, 2016
Guyana Amazon Warriors 143 for 4 (Smith 50, Maddinson 50, Reifer 2-22) beat Barbados Tridents 142 for 7 (Malik 55*, Wiese 40, Emrit 2-24) by six wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball details
A modest but boisterous crowd with a heavy contingent of Guyanese supporters cheered Guyana Amazon Warriors to a six-wicket victory over Barbados Tridents in the first CPL match in America on Thursday night at the Central Broward Regional Park in Lauderhill. With 5,000 chairback seats available at the CBRP, less than half were filled by the time the first ball was bowled by Dwayne Smith just after 7 pm, and an estimated 4,000 had made it through the gates by the time the match was ended, more than three hours later, by a single off the bat of Sohail Tanvir.
In between, the crowd was thrilled by some big hitting from Smith, who made a mockery of Tridents’ total of 142 for 7 by bashing his way to a fifty off 30 balls. Whereas the Tridents struggled to clear the deceptively large square boundaries, Smith succeeded in going big …
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