Twitter reactions: Patriots pip the Amazon Warriors in a cliff-hanger

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By Anuraag Peesara

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Hasan Ali of the St Kitts. (Photo by Ashley Allen – CPL T20 via Getty Images)

St Kitts and Nevis Patriots registered a crucial win in their opening game of the contest with just one over left in the chase. The low scoring match turned into a thriller but, Patriots were too good and eventually managed to pull off their first win of the campaign.

The Patriots called it right at the flip of the coin and they decided to field first. The veteran Chadwick Walton and skipper Martin Guptill gave a good start to the innings, with both the players striking a couple of boundaries each. But Samuel Badree sent the captain back in the gallery and in came the highly rated Pakistani batter Babar Azam.

He did absolutely no justice to his reputation and failed miserably to score runs. Walton kept rotating the strike, blasting an odd boundary in between. But Azam scored 21 off 30 balls and added a lot of pressure on him. He eventually failed to compensate the damage he did and was dismissed by Carlos Brathwaite.

Barring the top three batters, no one managed to register double digits in the innings and Walton somehow fought his way to a spectacular half-century. The wicket-keeper batsman was eventually dismissed by Sheldon Cottrel and the lower order had nothing to offer to the scoreboard, resulting in them finishing at 123/7 in 20 overs. Cottrel and CPL debutant Hasan Ali picked up two wickets each.

Guyana bang on target with the ball

Guyana had some incredible bunch of T20 specialist bowlers in Rayad Emrit, Sohail Tanvir, Rashid Khan and Steven Jacobs, who were too hot to handle. On song, Evin Lewis was dismissed in the second over and captain Christopher Henry Gayle scored a six and a four and eventually succumbed in Emrit’s bowling.

Mohammad Hafeez looked good with three boundaries in the powerplay but he had no answer to a peach of a delivery from Emrit. He was dismissed exactly on the first ball post power-play. Steve Jacobs then joined the part for the Amazon Warriors and picked up Brandon King’s wicket. Just overs after his wicket, the predicament intensified as Rashid Khan inflicted a spectacular run-out ti dismiss Devon Thomas.

Just when people thought the game was in their grasp, Brathwaite and Jonathan Carter stitched a crucial partnership. Brathwaite hit few lusty blows which condensed the required runs quite dramatically but he got out when they were still 18 runs short with 21 balls to spare. A boundary from Carter and few more singles sealed the deal as Patriots are off the mark in season 5.

Here’s how Twitter reacted

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