It was a record-break­ing night for the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors as they post­ed their high­est ever to­tal to earn an 88 run vic­to­ry over the Bar­ba­dos Roy­als in the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) ac­tion at Prov­i­dence in George­town, Guyana on Sun­day night.

Bar­ba­dos Roy­als had won the toss and chose to bowl first, with the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors caus­ing car­nage, Shai Hope scor­ing the sec­ond fastest cen­tu­ry in CPL his­to­ry from just 41 balls, on route to the Ama­zon War­riors scor­ing 226/7 af­ter 20 overs, their high­est team score in the CPL.

The to­tal proved to be too much for the Bar­ba­dos Roy­als, spin­ners Gu­dakesh Motie and Im­ran Tahir tak­ing wick­ets at fre­quent in­ter­vals to re­strict the Roy­als to 138/6, los­ing by 88 runs.

With play-off qual­i­fi­ca­tion al­ready se­cured, Guyana Ama­zon War­riors start­ed with at­tack­ing in­tent, open­ing with Saim Ayub and Odean Smith, who put to­geth­er 35 runs in the first three overs. Ayub would then lose his wick­et, bring­ing Shai Hope in­to the match, who played one of the most mem­o­rable in­nings in CPL his­to­ry.

Hope's in­nings in­clud­ed 17 bound­aries and was sup­port­ed by Kevlon An­der­son, mak­ing his T20 de­but, who would score 47. Shim­ron Het­my­er’s late cameo would see the Ama­zon War­riors fin­ish on 226/7.

Bar­ba­dos Roy­als' chase suf­fered an ear­ly blow as open­er Rah­keem Corn­wall de­part­ed in the third over, while Gu­dakesh Motie used his vari­a­tions to dis­miss Justin Greaves and Lau­rie Evans, to leave the Roy­als 42/3 with the run rate grad­u­al­ly in­creas­ing.

Once Rov­man Pow­ell was bowled by Im­ran Tahir the odds be­came stacked against the Roy­als, and they were un­able to keep up with the re­quired run rate de­spite a half cen­tu­ry from Ri­val­do Clarke, fin­ish­ing on 138/6 and los­ing by 88 runs. The re­sult means that the Roy­als do not qual­i­fy for the CPL play-offs.

CPL moves to the play-off stages next week as Guyana Ama­zon War­riors face Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers in Qual­i­fi­er 1, while Saint Lu­cia Kings take on Ja­maica Tallawahs in the Elim­i­na­tor.

(Cour­tesy CPL)

Scores:

AMA­ZON WAR­RIORS 226 for sev­en off 20 overs (Shai Hope 106, Kevlon An­der­son 47; Obed Mc­Coy 2-36, Ja­son Hold­er 2-50)

ROY­ALS 138 for six off 20 overs (Ri­val­do Clarke 54 not out; Im­ran Tahir 3-23, Gu­dakesh Motie 2-11)

Guyana Ama­zon War­riors won by 88 runs.