CPL 2018, St Lucia Stars v Guyana Amazon Warriors: 5 reasons why GAW lost

The 15th match of CPL 2018 was a clash between St Lucia Stars and Guyana Amazon Warriors.

Kieron Pollard put Warriors in after winning the toss. Warriors' innings was not so impressive as they kept losing wickets at regular intervals.

Obed McCoy and Kesrick Williams were the star performers with the ball as they picked up two wickets each and David Warner was the star performer in the field for taking three catches.

As a result, GAW stumbled to a score of 140 of their 20 overs. In reply, Stars did not begin well as they were also losing wickets.

However, a forty four-run partnership between Pollard and Fletcher ensured their second win in the tournament.

Let us have a look at the five reasons why the Guyana Amazon Warriors lost the contest.

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#1 Stars' superlative fielding

David Warner showed why he is considered amongst the best in the fielding department by taking three catches. Also, the Warriors' had two run-out dismissals due to the impressive fielding of Stars.

#2 Complete bowling performance from St. Lucia

Stars have the swing of McClenaghan, the pace of Williams and McCoy, the right-arm spin of Cornwall and the variations of Ahmad. All of them clicked in today's game.

The spinners managed to pick Walton and Malik. They shared two wickets and gave away 42 runs off their 8 overs.

McCoy got two wickets for just 23 runs as Guyana's batsmen struggled to pick his pace.

Williams was outstanding as well as he picked up the crucial wickets of Delport and Hetmyer and gave just 23 runs off his three overs.

McClenaghan picked up the crucial wicket of Ronchi.

#3 Pollard's cameo innings

While wickets were falling at the start, the skipper kept his cool.

Kieron Pollard scored 30 runs of Devendra Bishoo in the 18th over helped to ease nerves in Stars' dugout and brought down the required run rate.

#4 Fletcher's sensible knock

Andre Fletcher played an unbeaten 45 off 46 balls. It was a bit slow but a sensible knock. He won the Man of the Match award for this knock.

#5 Middle order collapse

The extraordinary collapse in the middle order of Warriors ensured that they could manage to score 140 runs off their allotted overs.

Shoaib Malik struggled, while the big-hitting Shimron Hetmyer and Cameron Delport did not trouble the scorers much.