The Caribbean Premier League continues with a double header of action on Saturday with the earlier game looking like a cracker as the St Kitts and Nevis Patriots take on the Jamaica Tallawahs at Warner Park.
St Kitts and Nevis have already played a match in the tournament which they lost in the final over so they will be looking to get up and running here while the Tallawahs are playing in their first match of the season and have the chance to get off to a fast start.
St Kitts and Nevis Patriots
The Patriots didn’t do a whole lot wrong in their opening match against the Guyana Amazon Warriors and having recovered from 54-4 to post 164 they did even better to temper the blitz that Dwayne Smith attacked them with to force it into the final over.
It will now be about holding their nerve for the Patriots. Last season was a disappointing one and we’ve seen in other competitions that when a team gets into a slump it can hangover to the following season and be very hard to get out of but this is a good looking side who should flourish if they can get a win under their belts.
Jamaica Tallawahs
All eyes will be on this powerful Jamaica side who are often expected to go the distance in this tournament but all too often flatter to deceive when it really counts. With the recruiting they have done prior to this season there might be even more pressure on them to deliver here and it will be interesting to see how they handle that.
Chris Gayle, Kumar Sangakkara, Andre Russell and Dale Steyn are all on show for Jamaica in this match and if those four fire throughout the tournament they won’t need much from the rest of the side to be highly competitive this season.
Betting
I’m going to take largely a watching brief from Jamaica here before I get stuck into them and their matches so I’ll give the match market a miss here especially given that St Kitts and Nevis have blown away their cobwebs but on this small Warner Park layout I can’t ignore the sixes lines.
Given that there were 14 sixes here in the last match where one side was 54-4 at one stage I’m a little surprised that the line is as low as 13.5 here when we’ve got Chris Gayle in action in the match but it is a line I am more than happy to take.
St Kitts and Nevis’ big hitters never really got going in their first match so there is more to come from them from a hitting point of view and yet they still nailed eight sixes. We know what to expect from Jamaica with Gayle and Russell swinging from the hip and a few other canny batsmen around them so all things being equal this small ground should yield another 14 maximums here.
Tips
WON – Back Over 13.5 sixes for a 4/10 stake at 1.83 with Coral
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