Barbados Tridents vs St Lucia Zouks, Caribbean Premier League T20 2020, Today Match Prediction 30 Aug 2020

bt vs sz Match Prediction & Analysis

Caribbean Premier League is providing great entertainment to the cricketing audience with thrilling close contests albeit most of them are low scorers. We enter into the last couple of matches at the Queen`s park oval with the two matches. Barbados Tridents are in a spot of bother with just 2 wins from their 6 matches so far in the league. They will take confidence of the fact that rest of teams too lie around them so their chances of qualification is still at their own hands. St. Lucia Zouks have performed superbly this season with 4 wins in their 6 matches and are looking pretty at the second place in the points table. They will look to move up further with a win in this match while Tridents will look to regain momentum.

TEAMS PREVIEW

Barbados Tridents Preview

Barbados Tridents put a good target of 148 runs on board last night. Kyle Mayers (42 runs) and Jonathan Charles (47 runs) set the platform for the innings with their 51-run partnership. Their batting depth was on full display as the trio of Rashid Khan, Ashley Nurse, and Mitchell Santner scored 40-odd runs in the last 3 overs to finish on a high.

Their bowlers dominated the game for the first 15 overs before Kieron Pollard`s assault. Mitchell Santner and Rashid Khan bowled well in different phases of the game to have combined figures of 8-1-34-2 in the match. Jason holder picked up 2 wickets in his first over but leaked runs at the death. Raymon Reifer and Hayden Walsh failed to hold their nerves in the tense finish as the Tridents lost agonizingly by 2 wickets.

Top players to bet on:

Mitchell Santner – Santner showed his worth with the minimal chances he got. He bowled a magnificent spell of 4-0-13-1 in the match and also scored 8 runs off the last 3 balls in the last over of their batting innings.  

Kyle Mayers – Mayers looks to be in good touch with the bat with scores of 85 & 42 in the last 2 matches. He will look to make a big impact in this series with his batting form this season.

Barbados Tridents Predicted Playing XI:

Johnson Charles, Shai Hope (wk), Kyle Mayers, Jason Holder (c), Corey Anderson, Ashley Nurse, Rashid Khan, Mitchell Santner, Raymon Reifer, Shamarh Brooks/Jonathan Carter, Hayden Walsh

Barbados Tridents Actual Playing XI:

Joshua Bishop, Nyeem Young, Johnson Charles, Ashley Nurse, Hayden Walsh Jr, Kyle Mayers, Raymon Reifer, Rashid Khan, Corey Anderson, Shai Hope, Jason Holder

St Lucia Zouks Preview

St. Lucia Zouks are on a roll this season with a good start to the tournament. Rakheem Cornwall got them off to a good start scoring 26 runs off 11 balls with rain threat looming big.  Roston Chase (27 runs) and Najibullah Zadran (33 runs) then took their team across the chase comfortably with almost 5.2 overs remaining and 6 wickets in hand.

Mohammed Nabi stunned the opposition with his best figures of 4-0-15-5. The spin trio of Roston Chase, Rakheem Cornwall, and Zakir Khan put the brakes on the chase with combined figures of 11-0-49-2.

Top players to bet on:

Mohammed Nabi – Mohammed Nabi is the most valuable player of the tournament with 120 runs at a strike rate of 145 and 9 wickets at an economy rate of just 5 RPO so far. We will never want to miss out on player of Nabi`s calibre and form.

Rakheem Cornwall – Cornwall had an excellent outing with both bat and ball last night with bowling figures of 4-0-14-1 & then smashed 26 runs off just 11 balls to put his team in pole position very early on.

St Lucia Zouks Predicted Playing XI:

Andre Fletcher (wk), Rahkeem Cornwall, Mark Deyal, Roston Chase, Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Daren Sammy (c), Javelle Glenn, Scott Kuggeleijn, Kesrick Williams, Zahir Khan

St Lucia Zouks Actual Playing XI:

Leniko Boucher, Daren Sammy, ADS Fletcher, Kesrick Williams, Scott Kuggeleijn, Roston Chase, Rahkeem Cornwall, Javelle Glen, N Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Zahir Khan

PITCH AND WEATHER CONDITIONS

Weather Conditions

Port of Spain has scattered rains on the match day with 40% chances of downpour as per the weather forecasters. We hope rain won’t make a long delay nor over reductions in the match.

Venue Details

Queen`s Park Oval has improved a little from the last few matches but still favouring the spinners greatly. We can expect average scores to be in the range of 140-150 runs in this match.

Toss: To Bowl

Chasing teams has 12-5 win-loss record in the CPL matches so far and we expect both captains to chase down the total if they win the toss.