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- Updated: July 30, 2016
Guyana Amazon Warriors 180 for 5 (Lewis 79, Brooks 35*, Narine 3-27) beat Trinbago Knight Riders 146 (Munro 46, Amla 33, Santokie 3-27) by 34 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details
A season-high 79 by opener Evin Lewis provided the springboard for St Kitts & Nevis Patriots to upend Trinbago Knight Riders by 34 runs on night two of the Caribbean Premier League in Florida. Despite the lopsided crowd support – estimated at 5,000 inside the CBRP, slightly bigger than Thursday’s first CPL match in Lauderhill – for Knight Riders from the area’s large Trinidadian expat community, there was still plenty of love for Lewis’ entertaining display of power hitting.
It began in the second over when he laced three fours off Ronsford Beaton. Two overs later he tucked into Kevon Cooper for a pair of sixes before giving Dwayne Bravo similar treatment with two more that cleared the ropes. His sixth six smashed off Nikita Miller over midwicket in the seventh over brought up his half-century in 23 balls. Lewis put on 65 for the first wicket with JJ Smuts before both men fell to Sunil Narine, who also claimed Lendl Simmons to clear out the Patriots top …
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