Dottin keeps Knight Riders’ CPL dream alive

TAROUBA, Trinidad (CMC):

Deandra Dottin produced a brilliant performance to single-handedly rescue the Trinbago Knight Riders’ season in the 2024 Women’s Caribbean Premier League at the Brian Lara Cricket Stadium here on Sunday.

Needing a win to avoid elimination in the three-team tournament, the Knight Riders fought back to defeat the Guyana Amazon Warriors in a Super Over and keep their hopes alive of reaching the final.

Batting at the top of the order, Player-of-the-Match Dottin blazed 53 runs from 38 balls and was the backbone of the Knight Riders’ total of 128 for eight from their 20 overs.

The 33-year-old Barbadian, who, only last month, ended her international retirement, struck four boundaries and three sixes.

Chloe Tryon, Karishma Ramharack, and Shabnim Islamil all ended with two wickets.

The Amazon Warriors were comfortably poised for victory at 102-3 in the 16th over, with Erin Burns and Shemaine Campbelle at the crease.

But Campbelle was dismissed by Samara Ramnath for 25, and Burns was run out off the last ball of the innings for the topscore of 61 to set up an unexpected Super Over after they ended on 128-5.

Needing a big over, Dottin stepped up to the plate by launching Ismail for two sixes, and Jemimah Rodrigues added a boundary as the Knight Riders scored 19 runs.

The Warriors were never up to the task, with Jess Jonassen conceding just five runs in her over, while also capturing the crucial wicket of Burns for a first-ball duck as the Warriors could only muster five runs for the loss of two wickets.

The result leaves the Barbados Royals at the top of the table with two wins from two matches, with the Warriors second on net run rate above the Knight Riders, with both teams having won one and lost two of their three matches.