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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Clinical Red Steel spikes Tallawahs

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Tallawah is the name giv­en to a War­rior, one who nev­er gives up, is durable and stub­born. Play­ing un­beat­en in the Li­ma­col Caribbean Pre­mier League T20 tour­na­ment so far, it took a sharp­ened Red Steel to bring them down.In front of a ca­pac­i­ty crowd at the Queen's Park Oval, Dwayne Bra­vo's ma­raud­ing men were the ones in charge, as they de­feat­ed the Ja­maican Tallawahs by 13 runs for their third suc­ces­sive win of the tour­na­ment.Evin Lewis scored a scorch­ing 72 runs and Kevin O'Brien a hur­ri­cane 32 to lead the home team to 183 for five off their 20 overs. O'Brien would then re­turn with the ball to crip­ple the Tallawahs–tak­ing four wick­ets to re­strict them to 170 for six off their 20 overs.

With the win the Red Steel now goes to eight points from five match­es, top head the stand­ings and to­day, they would look to book a place in the fi­nal four, with a win against the St Lu­cia Zouks start­ing at 4pm at the Oval.The dan­ger­ous Chris Gayle threat­ened and when O'Brien had him caught at long off for 60, the game was as good as over. At the fall of the big man, the Tallawahs lost three wick­ets in the space of three runs to O'Brien. Gayle spanked 60 off 46 balls with five fours and three six­es, while Jer­maine Black­wood (28 off 26 balls) and An­dre Rus­sell to­wards the end with 40 not out, were the on­ly men to look the part. Rus­sell faced just 17 balls and struck five six­es, three of the last three balls of the in­nings and a four. O'Brien end­ed with the mag­nif­i­cent fig­ures off 4/22 to earn the man of the match award.

Ear­li­er, Gayle won the toss and sent in the Red Steel. He would have fac­tored in the un­pre­dictable weath­er in­to his equa­tion in com­ing up with his de­ci­sion but the Gods smiled and the sun came out in its glo­ry. His open­ing bowlers then strug­gled to make an im­pact and runs were flow­ing from the on­set.O'Brien was in great touch and the big Irish­man flexed his mus­cles to great ef­fect. He rushed to 31 in just 21 balls, strik­ing three fours and a two six­es.One run lat­er the crowd would go silent again as Theron plucked one out of the air from a ten­ta­tive Ross Tay­lor off Rus­sell as well. Step­ping in next was lo­cal hero Dar­ren Bra­vo. Fresh from hit­ting a last ball six to win the last game for his team, Bra­vo just con­tin­ued where he left off. He and Lewis pul­verised the Tallawahs bowl­ing and aid­ed by some slop­py field­ing were able to bring up the 100 in 12 overs.

Lewis, who was over­looked for the last two games in pref­er­ence for his name­sake Ke­nar Lewis, smacked three huge six­es in one over off Daniel Vet­tori. He was mer­ci­less on the Tallawahs bowl­ing and eight times dur­ing his in­nings he had fans duck­ing in the stands.The man from Marac, fi­nal­ly fell for 72 caught on the over point bound­ary off Theron but the dam­age was al­ready done. He faced just 43 balls and in ad­di­tion to his eight six­es he slammed two fours as well. The part­ner­ship be­tween the two left han­ders was worth 87 runs off eight overs and three balls.

Soon af­ter Dar­ren Bra­vo would leave the park–bowled all over the place by Theron for a run-a-ball 30. At the fall of Dar­ren Bra­vo's wick­et, the Tallawahs came back in­to the con­test as overs num­ber 17, 18 and 19 re­al­ized just 18 runs for the loss of Nico­las Pooran (1). Dwayne Bra­vo and new man Javon Sear­les then struck three six­es in the last over off Jerome Tay­lor as they got 20 runs to close the in­nings at 183 for five - the sec­ond high­est score in this year's tour­na­ment, be­hind the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents 186 for two against the St Lu­cia Zouks.

SCORE­BOARD

Red Steel vs Tallawahs

Red Steel inns

K O'Brien b Rus­sell 32

E Lewis c Vo­ges b Theron 72

R Tay­lor c Theron b Rus­sell 0

DM Bra­vo b Theron 30

DJ Bra­vo not out 24

N Pooran c Rus­sell b Miller 1

J Sear­les not out 14

Ex­tras lb5, w5 10

To­tal 5 wk­ts (20ovs) 183

Fall of wk­ts: 44, 45, 132, 146, 159.

Bowl­ing: D Vet­tori 3-0-34-0, J Tay­lor 4-0-35-0 (2w), J Theron 4-0-34-2, A Rus­sell 4-0-23-2 (3w), C Gayle 3-0-34-0, N Miller 2-0-18-1.

Tallawahs inns

C Wal­ton c DJ Bra­vo b Ed­wards 8

C Gayle c Tay­lor b O'Brien 60

J Black­wood c Tay­lor b O'Brien 28

A Vo­ges c & b O'Brien 12

A Rus­sell not out 40

O Shah lbw O'Brien 2

C Baugh run out 5

D Vet­tori not out *0

Ex­tras b6, lb1, w7, nb1 15

To­tal 6 wk­ts (20ovs)*170

Fall of wk­ts: 21, 97, 121, 121, 124, 151,

Bowl­ing: F Ed­wards 4-0-32-1 (2w), S Badree 2-0-15-0, K Coop­er 4-0-16-0, J Sear­les 3-0-28-0 (1nb), DJ Bra­vo 3-0-41-0, S Benn 1-0-9-0, K O'Brien 3-0-22-4.

Re­sult: Red Steel won by 13 runs.

Man of the match: Kevin O'Brien.


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