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Singapore batter Tim David’s brisk half-century the lone bright spark for St Lucia Kings in a 120-run defeat
Jamaica Tallawahs 255 for 5 (Russell 50*, Lewis 48, Walton 47) beat St Lucia Kings 135 (David 56, Pretorius 4-32, Imran 3-7) by 120 runs
The Kings bowled as many as 14 wides and seven no-balls, taking as many as two hours to finish their allotted quota of overs. For Faf du Plessis, it was the stuff nightmares are made of, as though he called correctly and elected to bowl the Kings were staring at a monstrous 256 chase by the time he walked off for the break.
Russell walloped four of his six sixes in the penultimate over, taking an off-colour Wahab Riaz to the cleaners in the arc between deep square leg and long-on. The over went for 32 with Riaz finishing with figures of 3-0-61-0. It came on the back of Obed McCoy, the left-arm seamer, picking up three wickets in the 18th over as batter after batter fell looking to hit out.
The Kings captain was beaten for pace by a short ball that he gloved to wicketkeeper Chadwick Walton. Pretorius would come back to pick up a third in his next over when he had Roston Chase nicking behind. But by then, the chase had already derailed, with the Kings reduced to 33 for 3, which would soon become 56 for 6 when Keemo Paul would be out to a suicidal run-out.
Walton made 47 and his dismissal in the tenth over brought out Rovman Powell, who made 38. It wasn’t until the 18th that Russell walked out to bat. And just when it elicited doubts if the Tallawahs had erred by sending him that late, he still managed to make an impact of the kind that has made him a T20 MVP over the years, effectively killing the contest with his blitzkrieg as the Tallawahs went home smiling.
Shashank Kishore is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo