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Cricket News Desk. Barbados Royals opener Brendon King scored his first half -century in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) 2025. He missed his century by just two runs and returned unbeaten after scoring 98 runs. On Brendon’s brilliant innings, the fielders of his team turned water. The fielders of Barbados Royals left so much catches that they lost the winning match and suffered their fifth defeat in the league. Meanwhile, Barbados, leaving the catch of Antigua and Barbuda Falcons opener, was overwhelmed and the batsman returned only after winning his team.

7 catches had to be expensive
Batting first in the 22nd match of CPL 2025, Barbados Royals scored 187 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in 20 overs with the help of Brendon King’s brilliant innings. Brandon King scored an unbeaten 98 off 65 balls with the help of 6 fours and 7 sixes, but the Royals fielders flew away. During the innings of Antigua and Barbuda Falcons, the fielders of Barbados Royals dripped his first catch off the 7th ball.

After this the trend continued and lasted for 17.3 overs. During this time, Rowman Powell’s team dripped 7 catches. Chris Green dripped the most 4 catches in it. Daniel Sams dripped two and Ramon Simands dripped one catch. In this, Falkans’ opener Andries proved to be the most expensive in the case of Gauss Catch dripping. His first catch was dripping when he was playing for only 2 runs. After this Gauss played a brilliant innings.

Andries Gauss got life for 2 runs
Taking advantage of the life of 2 runs, Falkans’ opener Andries Gauss scored his first half -century of this season. Chasing a target of 188 runs, Antigua and Barbuda Falcons openers Aamir Jungu and Andries Gauss made a brilliant debut. Both added 45 runs in 27 balls for the first wicket. Gauss’s first catch off the first ball of the second over, when Chris Green quit her catch.

First half -century after life
Gauss could score only two runs at that time. Gauss left three catches in this match, with the help of which he scored an unbeaten innings of 85 runs in 53 balls with the help of 5 fours and 4 sixes. In addition, Aamir Jungu scored 23 runs in 14 balls with the help of 3 fours and 1 six. Kevin Vikam scored 26 runs in 21 balls.

Captain Imad Wasim scored 17 runs in 11 balls. In this way, the Falcons team scored 188 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs and won the match by 4 wickets. Daniel Sams took the most 3 wickets for Barbados Royals. Along with this, Brendon King played a brilliant innings for Barbados.

Brendon King missed a century

Barbados Royals started batting first against Antigua and Barbuda Falcons. Wicketkeeper-batsman Quinton de Kock and Brendon King shared 91 runs in 68 balls for the first wicket. D Cock was dismissed for 27 runs in 28 balls. Subsequently, Sherfen Rutherford, batting with Brendon King, carried the innings forward and took the team’s score to 150. Sherfen Rutherford scored 29 runs in 17 balls with the help of 3 fours and 2 sixes.

Brendon King scored an unbeaten 98 runs in 65 balls with the help of 7 fours and 2 sixes. However, he missed out on completing his century. Chris Green scored 16 runs in 6 balls with the help of 1 six and 1 fours. In this way, Barbados team scored 187 runs for 4 wickets in 20 overs. Salman Irshad bowled well for Falcons. He sent 2 players to the pavilion for only 13 runs in 4 overs. Obed McOoy got one wicket.