The Guyana Ama­zon War­riors con­tin­ued their amaz­ing run in the 2019 Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League when they record­ed their ninth suc­ces­sive win with a 77-run tri­umph against the Ja­maica Tallawahs at the Prov­i­dence Sta­di­um in Guyana on Thurs­day night.

The win pushed the War­riors to 18 points on the six-team round-robin ta­ble, eight ahead of joint sec­ond-placed Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents and St Kitts Nevis Pa­tri­ots.

The War­riors, who have al­ready made CPL his­to­ry with a record nine straight wins, will be look­ing to make it a clean sweep of 10 match­es on Fri­day night when they host the floun­der­ing de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) at the same venue from 8 pm.

If they achieve this feat they will al­so be­come the first team to play un­beat­en in the pre­lim­i­nary phase of the tour­na­ment.

On Thurs­day night, the War­riors spin­ners once again bowled them to vic­to­ry af­ter their bats­men gave them a less than im­pres­sive to­tal of just 156-6 off their 20 overs.

But tal­is­man War­riors off-spin­ner Chris Green bowled Tallawahs vet­er­an Chris Gayle for a first-ball 'duck and af­ter that it was al­ways an up­hill climb for the vis­i­tors.

The War­riors spin­ners were amaz­ing, shar­ing eight wick­ets among them­selves as the Tallawahs were bowled out for just 79 runs - their low­est score in the his­to­ry of the CPL. The best of the spin­ners was the en­er­getic Im­ran Tahir, who re­turned three wick­ets for 12 runs off his four overs.

On­ly, Glenn Phillips and Liton Dass, who both got 21, of­fered any re­sis­tance to the War­riors bowlers but it could not stop the ir­re­sistible force that has been the War­riors this sea­son.

How­ev­er, the War­riors them­selves had re­cov­ered from a wob­bly eight for four wick­ets af­ter two overs in their in­nings to record a fight­ing 156-6 off their 20 overs.

The ma­jor work was done by their cap­tain and Man-of-the-match Shoaib Ma­lik, who cracked an un­beat­en 73 off 45 balls with two six­es and five fours.

Ma­lik stood at the non-strik­er's end to wit­ness the car­nage as wick­et af­ter wick­et fell in the first eight balls. Be­fore fans could have set­tled in­to their seats, the tal­ent­ed quar­tet of Bran­don King (1), Shim­ron Het­my­er (0), Chan­dra­paul Hem­raj (2) and Nico­las Pooran (0) were back in the dugout as Tallawahs pac­ers Os­hane Thomas and Der­val Green ran ri­ot in the first two overs to si­lence the home fans.

But Ma­lik then forged a bril­liant 82-run part­ner­ship with Shur­fane Ruther­ford (45) to bring the War­riors back in­to the con­test. They need­ed on­ly 68 balls to add the runs and blos­somed nice­ly af­ter a cau­tious start.

Ma­lik would end strong­ly as the War­riors made 156/6 to give them­selves a fight­ing chance.

SCORES: Guyana Ama­zon War­riors 156-6 (20) (Shoaib Ma­lik 73*, Shur­fane Ruther­ford 45, Dur­val Green 2/23, Os­hane Thomas 2/40) v Ja­maica Tallawahs 79 all out (Glenn Phillips 21, Liton Das 21, Im­ran Tahir 3/12, Keemo Paul 2/2, Qais Ahmed 2/20)

Re­sult: Guyana Ama­zon War­riors won by 77 runs.

Man-of-the-match: Shoaib Ma­lik (GAW)