The Bar­ba­dos Roy­als sealed a place in Fri­day's Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) fi­nal with a com­pre­hen­sive 87 run win over Guyana Ama­zon War­riors at Prov­i­dence Sta­di­um in George­town, Guyana on Tues­day.

Guyana Ama­zon War­riors won the toss and chose to field, but Bar­ba­dos Roy­als would go on to score the joint-high­est to­tal of this sea­son by reach­ing an im­pos­ing 195/5 in the in the first qual­i­fi­er of the CPL play­offs. Open­er Rah­keem Corn­wall starred in the in­nings, launch­ing 11 six­es in his in­nings of 91, while Azam Khan sup­port­ed with his own half-cen­tu­ry.

The War­riors' hopes of a suc­cess­ful chase were de­railed in the pow­er­play, as they lost four wick­ets, with Kyle May­ers and Ra­mon Sim­monds prov­ing ef­fec­tive with the ball. De­spite the at­tempts of Shim­ron Het­my­er, it was not to be enough as the War­riors fell to 108 all out.

Bar­ba­dos Roy­als had ini­tial­ly got off to a cau­tious start, but Corn­wall would go on to play one of the most de­struc­tive in­nings seen this sea­son, 91 runs from just 54 balls, to put the Roy­als in­to the as­cen­dan­cy. Af­ter los­ing his wick­et just nine runs short of a cen­tu­ry to the bowl­ing of Shak­ib Al Hasan, the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty of the in­nings fell on Khan, whose vi­tal half-cen­tu­ry would help his side to 195/5 by the end of the in­nings.

Guyana Ama­zon War­riors lost ear­ly wick­ets in their chase, in-form bat­ter Rah­man­ul­lah Gur­baz de­part­ing in the first over, be­fore a flur­ry of wick­ets fell that left the War­riors on 36-4 by the end of the pow­er­play. Sim­monds ex­celled with his bowl­ing, tak­ing three key wick­ets, in­clud­ing that of cap­tain Het­my­er, who was the War­riors high­est scor­er in the in­nings. In the end, the War­riors fin­ished on 108 all out and will play in to­mor­row night’s qual­i­fi­er.

SUM­MARISED SCORES:

Bar­ba­dos Roy­als 195/5 (Rah­keem Corn­wall 91, Azam Khan 52; Ro­mario Shep­herd 2/29, Kevin Sin­clair 1/8) vs Guyana Ama­zon War­riors 108 all out (Shim­ron Het­my­er 37, Shai Hope 21; Ra­mon Sim­monds 3/17, R Corn­wall 2/10).

Roy­als won by 87 runs.