St Lucia Kings make CPL playoffs courtesy Tabraiz Shamsi as Tim Seifert and Ackeem Auguste led the chase of 110.
Shamsi leads spinners’ show to thump Knight Riders as St Lucia Kings make playoffs.
at order to set up a decisive seven-wicket victory at Tarouba, the St Lucia Kings spinners Tabraiz Shamsi, Roston Chase, and Khary Pierre combined seven wickets and bowled the Trinbago Knight Riders for 109. With the win, the Kings advanced to the 2025 CPL playoffs.
With their fourth consecutive victory that put them atop the points table, Tim Seifert, Ackeem Auguste, Chase, and Tim David made sure the chase was over before the beginning of the 12th over to significantly increase their net run rate. After the game, they lost the top rank, ending TKR’s winning streak of five straight games.
After Kings decided to bowl, Pierre scored on the game’s second ball. He had Colin Munro caught off guard during a low-key delivery. Before Nicholas Pooran, the captain, made a quick comeback, Darren Bravo chipped Pierre to short fine leg for 11 in the third over.
However, Kings started to falter after Chase ended the powerplay by bowling Hales for nine. After ten overs, forty for two quickly turned into 59 for five. With a wrong ‘un first ball, Shamsi dismissed Akeal Hosein, and Chase, who finished with 2 for 19, had Pooran caught behind, albeit with DRS’s assistance. No TKR batter was able to reach 20 after Pooran’s knock of 30 off 27.
Seifert hit the first ball with gusto. In the opening over, which ended at 14, he cut and punched Hosein for fours after sweeping him for six. Seifert had already scored 25 runs off of 10 deliveries when TKR dismissed his partner, Johnson Charles, for 1 to finish the second over. After two quiet overs, Auguste and Seifert made sure TKR’s enthusiasm didn’t last long.
In the next two overs of the powerplay, the two hitters doubled the score, leaving Kings at 66 for 1. However, in the seventh over, Usman Tariq put a stop to Kings’ enjoyment when he had Seifert caught at deep midwicket for 36 off 19 balls.
Sunil Narine trapped Auguste for an attacking 28, but Chase, who hit Tariq for three fours in the ninth over, and David took Kings home with 53 balls to spare.