Those who say this are right, victory is not certain until the last ball is bowled. Something similar was seen in the Caribbean Premier League, where on the evening of September 1, St. Kitts played against St. Lucia. Batting first in this match, the St. Kitts team scored 201 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs. In response, chasing the target of 202 runs, St. Lucia managed to win the match even after losing 4 wickets for only 24 runs. This was possible due to the record-breaking batting of Tim Seifert and Bhanuka Rajapaksa, which gave the team a bumper victory.

201 runs were scored on the basis of a partnership of 199 runs

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Kitts scored 201 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs on the basis of a brilliant century by their opener Evin Lewis and an explosive innings of 92 runs by Kyle Myers. There was a huge partnership of 199 runs for the second wicket between Lewis and Myers. With this partnership, Lewis and Myers broke the record of Chris Gayle and Brooks, who had earlier made the biggest partnership of 103 runs for the second wicket for St. Kitts.

Target of 202 runs, 4 wickets fell for just 24 runs

When St.Kints' innings ended, St. Lucia had a target of 202 runs.

This target was not easy at all in a 20-over game. The difficulties increased further when chasing it, St. Lucia Kings lost their 4 wickets for only 24 runs in 3.5 overs. That is, the target was still 178 runs away. In such a situation, the responsibility of batting was taken up by two such batsmen who have been match-winning players of their respective country's teams. One of them was Tim Seifert of New Zealand and the other was Bhanuka Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka.

Seifert and Rajapaksa came and dominated

There was still a twist left in the match in which St. Kitts was almost sure of its victory after losing 4 wickets of St.

Lucia cheaply. And, Seifert and Bhanuka created the same twist by creating havoc for the 5th wicket. For St. Lucia, both of them together added 103 runs for the 5th wicket and broke the previous record of 84 runs for this wicket. This record was in the name of Du Plessis and Alzari Joseph.

Together they hit 10 sixes and 103 runs

Tim Seifert was out after scoring 64 runs in 27 balls. His innings, played at a strike rate of 237.03, included 6 sixes and 4 fours. Even after Seifert was out, Bhanuka remained firm and returned unbeaten to finish the match.

He scored 68 runs in 35 balls, which included 4 sixes and 6 fours. Bhanuka's batting strike rate was 194.28.

20 overs target chased 16 balls first

The result of Tim Seifert and Bhanuka Rajapaksa's excellent batting was that St. Lucia won the lost match by 5 wickets. It achieved the target of 202 runs, which seemed difficult at one time, in just 17.2 overs. In this way, the 20-over match was won 16 balls in advance. This is St. Kitts' second defeat in 3 matches. At the same time, this was St. Lucia's first match in CPL 2024, in which it has registered a tremendous victory.