St Lucia Zouks takes on St Kitts & Nevis Patriots in their 2nd leg fixture of Caribbean Premier League 2020.
Team Previews
St Lucia is having the best season and they look to seal top-four spots this time. After winning three straight matches, Zouks suffered a defeat against table-topper on Wednesday. After batting first, St Lucia was struggling at 111/6 and rain played a spoilsport. Trinbago got the revised target of 72 in 9-overs and they chased it down with the one-over left. Zouks got the same, they did with Barbados in a rain-affected affair. The batting issues are still horrifying St Lucia and yet again, they failed with the bat. On a challenging track, Nabi played a steady knock of 30 before the rain stopped the game. St Lucia is placed at 2nd in the table and they had beaten Patriots previously by 10 runs.
St Kitts is boosted up after a thumping victory over Barbados Tridents. Chasing the target of 152, Evin Lewis played one of the top knocks of the season with 60-balls 89. This 6-wickets victory opened the account for St Kitts. Patriots had suffered defeats with close margins in a couple of games and they aim to carry the winning momentum against Zouks. Jaggesar is making a big impact for St Kitts and he would be a key figure for them on spin conditions. In the previous meeting, both sides had played a high-scoring game but the poor batting in middle-overs cost St Kitts a 10-runs loss.
Pitch Report
Queen’s park Oval will host the match between St Lucia and Patriots. The surface is a bowling paradise and it has lot of help to spinners. Batsmen need to play sensibly to score runs here. Rainfall is expected on Thursday and it might be another rain-marred affair so chasing would be an ideal call to take the advantage of D/L method.
Possible XI
St Lucia Zouks
Andre Fletcher (wk), Kimani Melius, Mark Deyal, Najibullah Zadran, Roston Chase, Rakheem Corwall, Mohammad Nabi, Daren Sammy (c), Scott Kuggeleijn, Kesrick Williams, Chemar Holder
St Kitts & Nevis Patriots
Chris Lynn, Evin Lewis, Joshua Da Silva, Nick Kelly, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Ben Dunk, Sohail Tanvir, Rayad Emrit (c), Imran Khan, Jon-Russ Jaggesar, Alzarri Joseph
Key Players
St Lucia Zouks
Roston Chase
M: 5, Runs: 129, Avg: 32, Wickets: 5
Scott Kuggeleijn
M: 5, Wickets: 10, Avg: 14.60
St Kitts & Nevis Patriots
Evin Lewis
M: 4, Runs: 160, Avg: 40, SR: 137.93
Jon-Russ Jaggesar
Previous outings: 29/2, 17/2
