Harris, Taylor gave Amazon Warriors Women winning start

The first game of the Massy Women’s Caribbean Premier League (WCPL) saw Guyana Amazon Warriors women beat Trinbago Knight Riders women by six runs.

It was a closely contested thriller at Providence Stadium to get the competition up and running, with the match going into the final over with Knight Riders needing 16 off the final six deliveries to get off to a winning start.

Kiwi seamer Molly Penfold was tasked with bowling the final over of the game for the Warriors, the first two balls resulting in run outs as Shikha Pandey and Zaida James tried to scrabble runs that weren’t there.

Salonee Dangore managed to scythe a four away off the third ball of the last over but it wasn’t enough to get the Knight Riders over the line as they fell short of the Warriors 129/7 by six runs. Penfold holding her nerve admirably to give Warriors a winning start and see them head to the top of the table.

Deandra Dottin captained the Knight Riders but last year’s defeated WCPL finalists came up second best to Shemaine Campbelle’s impressive Warriors outfit, Dottin herself fell caught and bowled to eventual Player of the Match Laura Harris, the Australian picking up 3/25 with the ball.

Stafanie Taylor top scored for the Warriors after they were inserted by Dottin, 45 off 37 balls with five fours and a six before she also fell to a run out five runs shy of a half century. Twenty-year-old debutant, Realeanna Grimmond supported with 33 off 36 at the top of the order but regular flurries of wickets saw a par total of 129/7 posted.

Once Lizelle Lee was stumped off Ashmini Munisar in the Knight Riders reply for 36 the Trinbago outfit faded with the bat, sixteen wickets falling in the match as the WCPL got off to an entertaining start.

MATCH PHOTOS ARE AVAILABLE HERE AND CAN BE USED FOR EDITORIAL PURPOSES. (CREDIT: CPL VIA GETTY IMAGES)