CPL 2020: Kevin Sinclair does a dangerous somersault after taking the wicket of Mitchell Santner

On September 4th, the Guyana Amazon Warriors locked horns with the Barbados Tridents at the Brian Lara Cricket Stadium in Trinidad in the 26th match of the 2020 edition of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL 2020). The Guyana Amazon Warriors had an amazing tournament so far as they have won 6 of the total 10 league encounters and are located at the second spot in the table.

The hunt was for Barbados Tridents as they still had some last hopes left to turn it around before the doors closed upon them but the Amazon Warriors clinched the match by 6 wickets which resulted in Tridents getting out of the semi-final race.

A highlight of the match was the celebration done by Warriors’ Kevin Sinclair after taking the wicket of Mitchell Santner who was playing at 18 off 27 deliveries. Nowadays, the bowlers have been coming up with their unique and trademark wicket celebrations– some of which are rather dangerous.

Santner missed the ball by Kevin which directly hit the stumps and resulted in the former going back to the pavilion. Being happy with his effort Kevin decided to celebrate his wicket with his trademark somersault but this time he raised the difficulty level by trying to perform a triple somersault. Though Sinclair completed the double somersault with ease, the bowler had trouble landing while completing the third round.

Looking at the action, all the commentators including Romario Shepherd who was standing a few feet away from Kevin were astonished. The on-air commentator also deemed it as “dangerous”. The official twitter handle of the Caribbean Premier League also shared the clip of this unique celebration by Kevin.

They tweeted, “Double?? Treble?? Definitely Double Trouble in the Bubble!! What a celebration! #CPL20 #CricketPLayedLouder”.

Double?? Treble?? Definitely Double Trouble in the Bubble!! What a celebration! #CPL20 #CricketPLayedLouder pic.twitter.com/3N2oKNAzRy

— CPL T20 (@CPL) September 3, 2020

An insight into the match between Guyana Amazon Warriors and Barbados Tridents

The match commenced with Guyana winning the toss and electing to field. Batting first the defending champions put on a terrible show with the bat and could only manage a mere score of 89/9 in the 20 overs match. For Amazon Warriors, the man of the match Romario Shepherd and Imran Tahir were the pick of the bowlers as they both bowled a blistering spell of 3/22 and 3/13 in their four overs respectively.

With a partly total of 90 runs to chase, Warriors won the match in the 15th over only with the six wickets remaining owing to the knock of not out 32 by Hetmyer and 29 by Chanderpaul Hemraj.