St. Lucia Kings win CPL 2024
CPL 2024 final just wrapped up, with the final between Guyana Amazon Warriors (GAW) and St. Lucia Kings (SLK). Batting first, GAW scored 138 courtesy some late hitting by Romario Shepherd and Dwayne Pretorius. It first looked like not a lot. However, St. Lucia just didn’t seem to be able to get bat on ball, and made the total look extremely challenging. Till the end of the 15th over of the second innings, it seemed certain that GAW will win. Aaron Jones, especially, didn’t seem to either get a boundary or get off strike. At one point he was like 7 out of 19 balls. Commentators were talking about St. Lucia coach, Darren Sammy’s option to retire Jones and get in one of the lower order batsmen. But Sammy had been sending messages through a water man, who looked like was telling Jones to get on with it. Then came the 16th over of Moeen Ali. Jones and Chase took him for 27 runs, and completely changed the direction of the game. Jones suddenly seemed invincible. He was hitting it out of the ground at will, moving about at the crease, toying with the bowling. ...