The Guyana Ama­zon War­riors will con­test the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) fi­nal af­ter a con­vinc­ing 81-run vic­to­ry over the Ja­maica Tallawahs in Qual­i­fi­er Two at the Guyana Na­tion­al Sta­di­um in Prov­i­dence on Fri­day night.

The Tallawahs won the toss and opt­ed to field first and they pro­duced a dis­ci­plined bowl­ing per­for­mance to en­sure the Ama­zon War­riors were re­strict­ed to 182/6. Azam Khan pro­duced the star knock in the Ama­zon War­riors in­nings, his 54 at the back end pro­pelling Guyana to a com­pet­i­tive to­tal.

The chase was al­ways go­ing to be a steep one for the Tallawahs and that equa­tion be­came all the hard­er when they lost four wick­ets in the Pow­er­Play.

It was a po­si­tion they nev­er re­cov­ered from even­tu­al­ly suc­cumb­ing to 101 all out.

The Ama­zon War­riors made a sol­id start in their bat­ting Pow­er­Play, reach­ing 49 for the loss of one wick­et. It could have been two but for the faintest of in­side edges that saved Shai Hope from be­ing dis­missed lbw.

How­ev­er, Saim Ayub de­part­ed for 20 im­me­di­ate­ly fol­low­ing the end of the Pow­er­Play, his mis­cued shot on­ly find­ing Alex Hales at long on.

Hope and Shim­ron Het­my­er strug­gled to add some at­tack­ing im­pe­tus to the in­nings but just when it seemed they were ready to ac­cel­er­ate Hope was caught on the bound­ary for 40.

Het­my­er fol­lowed short­ly af­ter­wards for 31 – but Ro­mario Shep­herd and Azam Khan cashed in at the back end. Khan smashed a bru­tal 54 runs off 27 balls to give the Ama­zon War­riors mo­men­tum head­ing in­to the sec­ond half of the game.

If the Tallawahs were to chase the 183 to win, they need­ed a light­ning start in the Pow­er­Play but they got the op­po­site of that.

Four wick­ets fell in the first six overs and the pro­ces­sion con­tin­ued af­ter the field­ing re­stric­tions had been lift­ed. All of the Guyanese bowlers got in on the act to en­sure the Tallawahs were nev­er in the con­test.

Imad Wasim added a re­spectable un­beat­en 43 but no one stayed with him as the Tallawahs were even­tu­al­ly bowled out for 101.

The Ama­zon War­riors' vic­to­ry means they will now con­test their sixth Re­pub­lic Bank CPL fi­nal where they will aim to win their first-ever ti­tle.

(Cour­tesy CPL)

Scores:

AMA­ZON WAR­RIORS 182 for six off 20 overs (Azam Khan 54, Shai Hope 40, Shim­ron Het­my­er 31; Nichol­son Gor­don 2-27, Shamar Springer 2-40)

TALLAWAHS 101 off 15.2 overs (Imad Wasim 43 not out; Im­ran Tahir 3-7, Dwaine Pre­to­rius 2-21)

Guyana Ama­zon War­rior won by 81 runs.