St Lucia Zouks vs. Barbados Tridents Prediction

One of the most outstanding teams of the Caribbean Premier League, Trinidad & Tobago, crushed St Lucia Zouks by a huge margin of nine wickets in the 15^th match of the tournament. The latter have yet to win a game after appearing in four games and will be anticipating two points against Barbados Tridents who won three encounters out of five.

Players to watch

The skipper of St Lucia Zouks, Darren Sammy, was the only batsman who resisted with an unbeaten 46 runs in the last match. None of their batsmen has accumulated hundred runs in four games and that reflects their deficiency in that department. Keddy Lesporis, Henry Davids and Sohail Tanvir are other notable players with a few runs. The bowling performance of the home side is not up to the mark as well since the maximum wickets taken by a bowler are marked as two in the games played so far. Darren Sammy, Sohail Tanvir, Tino Best and Shane Shillingford are required to produce magical results.

Dwayne Smith hammered his second ton of the event in the last match vs. Guyana Amazon and Shoaib Malik scored 50 runs. The entire batting of the side revolves around those two players but they need solid batting from their captain, Kerion Pollard, Shane Dowrich and Jonathan Carter. Ravi Rampaul is their highest wicket taker and he needs a support from Rayad Emrit and Jeevan Mendis.

Time & Venue

Thursday July 31, 2014 @ 00.00 GMT (next day), 20.00 local at Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia.

Weather

Prediction of rain and thunderstorm with the temperatures around 26-28ᵒC.

Toss

St Loucia Zouks will opt to bat first if they win the toss

The Pitch

There is no problem with the pitch and the batsmen with care and determination can score briskly.

Teams

St Lucia Zouks – Darren Sammy (C), Johnson Charles, Henry Davids, Andre Fletcher, Keddy Lesporis, Sohail Tanvir, Tonito Willett, Roelof van der Merwe, Shane Shillingford, Tino Best, Mervin Mathew.

Barbados Tridents – Kieron Pollard (C), Dwayne Smith, Shane Dowrich, Shoaib Malik, Jonathan Carter, Jeevan Mendis, Ashley Nurse, Jason Holder, Rayad Emrit, Akeal Hosein, Ravi Rampaul.

Prediction

Barbados Tridents is a sound unit and will win the game.