BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Ja­maica Tallawahs will have to do with­out key all-rounder Rov­man Pow­ell for the rest of the Caribbean Pre­mier League af­ter he was ruled out through in­jury.

The big-hit­ting right-han­der, who al­so bowls medi­um pace, limped out of last Fri­day’s con­test against two-time reign­ing cham­pi­ons Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers, af­ter hit­ting a six and then col­laps­ing while hold­ing his rib cage.

He was sub­se­quent­ly di­ag­nosed with an ab­dom­i­nal strain.

Pow­ell has been re­placed by for­mer Bar­ba­dos and West In­dies all-rounder, Dwayne Smith, who made a first-ball ‘duck’ on de­but in Sun­day’s maid­en win over Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents at Sabi­na Park.

Smith is one of three play­ers called up by Tallawahs with Eng­land seam­er Jade Dern­bach re­plac­ing Ken­nar Lewis and Jer­maine Black­wood cov­er­ing for star all-rounder An­dre Rus­sell who was struck by a short ball from Hardus Viljoen in the fix­ture against St Lu­cia Zouks last Thurs­day.

Rus­sell was cleared of se­ri­ous in­jury but has not played since.

Tallawahs have en­dured a dis­as­trous start to their cam­paign, los­ing their first four games be­fore break­ing their slump with a four-wick­et win over Tri­dents on Sun­day.

Mean­while, both Tri­dents and Zouks have al­so been forced to make changes to their line­ups. South African Col­in In­gram has joined Zouks, re­plac­ing Sri Lankan This­ara Per­era who has been sum­moned by his na­tion­al team while Tri­dents have brought in Aus­tralian all-rounder Dan Chris­t­ian for the un­avail­able Asif Ali.

Tallawahs fined for slow over rate

The Ja­maica Tallawahs were charged with a breach of Ar­ti­cle 2.5 of the Hero CPL Code of Con­duct – Min­i­mum Over Rate Of­fences – at the end of Match 10 be­tween them­selves and the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers on Fri­day at the Sabi­na Park.

The charge of be­ing one (1) over down was laid by the Match Of­fi­cials Team against the cap­tain of the Tallawahs, Chris Gayle.

This was the Tallawahs’ sec­ond Min­i­mum Overs Breach of the tour­na­ment, fol­low­ing the same charge be­ing laid at the con­clu­sion of Match 3 against the same op­po­nents in Trinidad. As pro­vid­ed for at Ap­pen­dix 2, Sec­tion 4.2 of the Code of Con­duct, the ap­plic­a­ble mon­e­tary fine was im­posed on the cap­tain, and the Ja­maica Tallawahs team was pe­nal­ized with a 0.05 re­duc­tion in their Net Run Rate.

(CMC)