CPL 2026, GAW vs JAK Qualifier 2 Match Report, September 18, 2026

Jamaica Kingsmen 207 for five (Carty 56, Sadaqat 41, Powell 40*, McKenzie 34, Pretorius 2-37) beat Guyana Amazon Warriors 206 for 4 (Hetmyer 102*, Hope 40, Hassan 1-25) by 5 wickets

Amazon Warriors had topped the desk on the finish of the league with eight wins in ten video games. However the 99 all out in opposition to Barbados Tridents of their final league-stage sport was virtually an indication of issues to come back, as they then folded for 76 in opposition to Antigua and Barbuda Falcons in Qualifier 1. This time, Hetmyer smashed 102 not out off 45 balls to vary that pattern, however Kingsmen ensured it was Amazon Warriors’ third loss in a row, and the unkindest one but, because it value them a spot within the closing regardless of being within the contest virtually all through.

Partnerships with the bat, not at all times talked about in T20s, did the job for Kingsmen.

Chasing 207 for victory, Kingsmen acquired a wonderful begin courtesy Sadaqat, a century-maker within the earlier sport, and McKenzie, the openers, who added 42 runs in simply three overs earlier than Sadaqat was the primary to be dismissed, by Dwaine Pretorius.

McKenzie and Carty acquired collectively, could not rating as shortly, however nonetheless acquired 48 in 32 balls earlier than McKenzie was dismissed by Imran Tahir.

One other 62-run stand adopted, off simply 41 balls, between Carty and Saim Ayub, and after Ayub was the third man gone, Powell added 20 in ten balls with Carty after which 31 in 15 with Andre Russell. By the point Russell turned the fifth wicket, Powell, and Kingsmen, wanted simply 4 runs in 4 balls. A pair of twos from Hassan Khan, earlier Kingsmen’s greatest bowler, completed the job.

All mentioned, it actually did come all the way down to Powell. When he walked out on the fall of Ayub’s wicket within the sixteenth over, Kingsmen had been nonetheless 55 runs away with 29 balls to go. He began slowly however acquired caught into Khary Pierre within the seventeenth over, hitting two sixes within the first 4 balls to get going. Carty was run out in that over for 56 in 40 balls, however Powell carried on, hitting Imran Tahir for an additional six within the subsequent over, after which taking Shamar Joseph for a 4 and a six within the nineteenth. So dominant was Powell that Russell’s wrestle to get going – he scored 2 in 5 balls – at an important level within the chase did not damage Kingsmen. Powell completed with 40 in 17 balls.

Earlier, Amazon Warriors had been requested to bat and had been on the again foot straightaway, dropping Mohammad Haris and Mavendra Dindyal, the openers, inside 5 overs. Haris was the primary to go, a bullet thrown from mid-on from Hassan catching him brief on the non-striker’s finish, and Hassan the bowler then removed Dindyal, caught at deep square-leg.

However from that time, 4.2 overs, to 12.3 overs, it was all Amazon Warriors. Or all Hetmyer. His stand with Shai Hope for the third wicket was value 96 runs. Hetmyer scored 55 of these in 23 balls. Hope contributed 38 in 27, persevering with together with his position because the middle-order anchor for Amazon Warriors, although a number of extra runs from him there might need modified the consequence.

Hetmyer then stitched collectively a partnership of 65 in 33 balls with Quentin Sampson, who scored 29 in 17, earlier than attending to his century off the final ball of the innings, slicing Russell over brief third for a 4 to succeed in the mark. It was Hetmyer’s second century this season and third within the CPL general.

Kingsmen, of their debut CPL season, will face Falcons within the closing on Sunday.

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