St Kitts and Nevis Patriots vs Guyana Amazon Warriors, CPL T20 2021, Today Match Prediction 30 August 2021

sknp vs gaw Match Prediction & Analysis

Guyana Amazon Warriors and St. Kitts and Nevis Patriots are facing each other for the back-to-back matches in two days in the league phase. Both teams started their campaign with a victory in their opening match and St. Kitts and Patriots beat Guyana Amazon Warriors in the last game. Patriots will look to continue their winning streak while Warriors will look to get the better of their opponents in the second chance. Both teams will look to make some chances and bring more balance to their playing XI in this match.

TEAMS PREVIEW

St Kitts and Nevis Patriots Preview

Patriots Evin Lewis (62 runs) and Devon Thomas (55 runs) almost sealed the match with their 113-run partnership with fifties for both of them. Gayle was rested for the last match. Shane Rutherford, Fabian Allen, and Dwayne Bravo look in good touch with the bat with the likes of Asif Ali and Joshua Da Silva to further strengthen the line-up.  

Their bowling attack put on a splendid performance restricting the opposition to 146/8 in 20 over with all 6 bowlers contributing to the team. Dominic Drakes was the pick of the bowlers with 3 wickets while the likes of Fawad Ahmed (2 wickets), Dwayne Bravo (1 wicket), Sheldon Cottrell (1 wicket), and Fabian Allen (1 wicket) chipped in vital wickets.

Top players to bet on:

Evin Lewis – Lewis scored 62 runs off 39 balls with 4 boundaries and 5 sixes in the chase. He is expected to give such aggressive starts in this match too which could set the tone of their batting innings.

Domini Drakes – Drakes has been in brilliant form this season with figures of 2/13 & 3/26 in the 2 matches played so far. He has ben claiming important middle order wickets to give momentum to their bowling attack in both matches.

St Kitts and Nevis Patriots Predicted Playing XI:

Evin Lewis, Devon Thomas (wk), Joshua Da Silva/Chris Gayle, Asif Ali, Sherfane Rutherford, Dwayne Bravo (c), Fabian Allen, Dominic Drakes, Sheldon Cottrell, Paul van Meekeren, Fawad Ahmed

St Kitts and Nevis Patriots Actual Playing XI:

Devon Thomas, Dwayne Bravo, Fawad Ahmed, Dominic Drakes, Asif Ali, Sherfane Rutherford, Joshua Da Silva, Jon-Russ Jaggesar, Paul Van Meekeren, Evin Lewis, Fabian Allen

Guyana Amazon Warriors Preview

Guyana Amazon Warriors put up yet another 140+ sub-par runs on board in this match too. Chanderpaul Hemraj (38 runs) and Mohammed Hafeez (39 runs) were the top run scorers in the last game with Nicholas Pooran giving a 10-ball 23 run cameo innings as they finished with 146/8 in 20 overs.

Their bowlers were not able to win the match for them for the second time but they gave a good fight to the opposition strangling the run flow and taking the match till the 19th over. Imran Tahir and Naveen Ul- Haq took a wicket each. Hafeez, Odean Smith, and Ashmead Nedd bowled economically in the match.

Top players to bet on:

Nicholas Pooran – Pooran came to bat in the 12th overs and smashed 3 sixes in just 10 balls he faced for his 23 runs. He must look to bat till the end to take his team to a massive score and bat a little higher than his No. 7 position currently.

Imran Tahir – Tahir will be their trump card in the middle overs and he has claimed 3 wickets at an economy rate of less than 6 RPO so far. We expect him to take more wickets in this match.

Guyana Amazon Warriors Predicted Playing XI:

Brandon King, Chandrapaul Hemraj, Odean Smith, Shimron Hetmyer, Shoaib Malik, Mohammad Hafeez, Nicholas Pooran (c & wk), Romario Shepherd, Ashmead Nedd, Naveen-ul-Haq, Imran Tahir

Guyana Amazon Warriors Actual Playing XI:

Mohammad Hafeez, Brandon King, Imran Tahir, Nicholas Pooran, Naveen-ul-Haq, Chandrapaul Hemraj, Anthony Bramble, Shimron Hetmyer, Nial Smith, Shoaib Malik, Odean Smith

PITCH AND WEATHER CONDITIONS

Weather Conditions

Bassetre has a bright and sunny weather with just 10% chances of rain on the match day. We don’t expect rain to make an appearance in this match.

Venue Details

Warner Track is a good batting track to bat on early in the match and the pitch might slow down as the match progresses. Spinners might enjoy some assistance in this track and pacers will look to use their variation to great effect here. We expect average scores to be around 160-170 runs.

Toss: To Bat

The pitch is slowing done in the second innings and will be difficult to bat as the match progresses. We expect both captains to bat first if they win the toss here.