St. Lucia Kings defeated defending champions Trinbago Knight Riders by 21 runs to reach the CPL final

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Mark Dayal led the charge for the Kings in a high-scoring contest. He hit six sixes in his innings of 78 off 44 balls as his team scored 205 in the first innings. The Knight Riders, despite a shaky start, did not let the run rate get out of hand for too long, contributing to keeping them hunting through the batting order.

It looked like a game was all set for Kieron Pollard to end, but once David Wiese - who had taken five wickets - got rid of him, things started to get out of hand and the Kings took the game has been closed.

The Kings elected to bat after winning the toss and got off to a blazing start despite losing Cornwall for a duck and Fletcher being out of form. The man to attack was Deyal, whose scintillating timing and scintillating ball-striking made the Knight Riders' The bowling attack smash into all parts of the field. His dominance of the competition was so complete that by the end of the Powerplay, the Kings had reached 73 - 60 of them were responsible for Dayal.

After Fletcher and Dayal were removed, the Knight Riders came back strongly in the middle overs, thanks to another wonderful four-over spell from Sunil Narine, who immediately put the brakes on the Kings. While he had the ball in hand, the Kings' boundaries dried up, and once he was done, he conceded just 12 runs in his allotted four overs.

In the final four overs, however, all hell broke loose with Wiese and Tim David at the crease as monstrous power combined with some fairly lousy Knight Riders bowling. A staggering 70 came off the final four overs, undoing the good work done earlier and setting the Knight Riders on an impossible 206 for victory.

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The Knight Riders' reaction was hampered by the absence of the kind of role Deyle played in the opening overs, with none of the batsmen able to piece together the innings. Sunil Narine's quick-witted cameos set the stage, but it was noteworthy that the Kings continued to take regular wickets, by the end of the game, none other than Narayan had managed to reach 30. Four other batsmen fell between the scores of 25 and 29, and they all succumbed to their shots, with Deyal, Wiese, and David succeeding at the crease difference between the two sides.

Under pressure, the experienced Wiese made an equally remarkable contribution with the ball in hand, forcing Pollard to go through Ramdin to the top edge just as he appeared to be hitting his groove. He will follow up with a few more wickets to make it a five-for in his final over before Kings end his dream of retaining the title through the Knight Riders' lower order.

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