{"id":348999,"date":"2025-08-16T11:18:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T11:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348999\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T11:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T11:18:16","slug":"mcdermott-hope-help-guyana-amazon-warriors-to-a-winning-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348999\/","title":{"rendered":"McDermott, Hope help Guyana Amazon Warriors to a winning start"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> CPL 2025 <\/p>\n<p>           <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"cursor-pointer\" height=\"396\" width=\"595\" alt=\"Shai Hope and Ben McDermott added 115 runs in only 59 balls \" title=\"Shai Hope and Ben McDermott added 115 runs in only 59 balls \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/shai-hope-and-ben-mcdermott-ad.jpg\" itemprop=\"contentUrl\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Shai Hope and Ben McDermott added 115 runs in only 59 balls \u00a9 Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> Led by Ben McDermott&#8217;s blazing 39-ball 75, Guyana Amazon Warriors cruised to a comfortable five-wicket win over St. Kitts and Nevis Patriots to make a winning start to their CPL 2025 campaign. Chasing 154 for victory, the visitors overhauled the target with 16 balls to spare at Warner Park. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> Andre Fletcher&#8217;s 41-ball 60 had powered Patriots to a strong start after being put in to bat, even as there was limited contribution from the rest of their top-order batters. Evin Lewis had to retire hurt in the second over of the innings after he was in considerable pain right after pulling Shamar Joseph for a boundary. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> Fletcher took down Romario Shepherd, Imran Tahir and Moeen Ali for four sixes in a space of nine deliveries. However, in the company of Gudakesh Motie, Shepherd and Tahir delivered some tidy overs in the middle phase, including a wicket-maiden which seized the momentum back in the favour of Warriors. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> Jyd Goolie and Abbas Afridi hit some quick runs towards the end to propel the total to a competitive 153 for 8. However, as McDermott&#8217;s innings proved, it was too little in the end. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> After losing Kevlon Anderson early, McDermott cut loose against Kyle Mayers and Fazalhaq Farooqi. The latter was carted for three boundaries and a six in the fourth over. Afridi was meted out a worse treatment six over later, when he was taken apart for 22. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> Shai Hope, though playing the secondary role, was no less effective as the second wicket pair picked up 115 runs in only 59 balls to kill the contest. Patriots&#8217; pacers, Naseem Shah and Afridi, returned to strike in quick succession once McDermott was dismissed, but Hope ensured there was no trouble en route the eventual victory. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> <b>Brief Scores:<\/b> St Kitts and Nevis Patriots 153\/8 in 20 overs (Andre Fletcher 60; Dwaine Pretorius 3-43, Imran Tahir 2-29) lost to Guyana Amazon Warriors 154\/5 in 17.2 overs (Ben McDermott 75, Shai Hope 56*; Abbas Afridi 2-24) by 5 wickets <\/p>\n<p> \u00a9 Cricbuzz <\/p>\n<p>     RELATED STORIES  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CPL 2025 Shai Hope and Ben McDermott added 115 runs in only 59 balls \u00a9 Getty Led by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-348999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115038172213609974","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}