Heavy rain at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Thurs­day, ru­in the HERO Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) clash be­tween the Ja­maica Tallawahs and the St. Kitts/Nevis Pa­tri­ots which was ad­judged as a no-re­sult. Both teams got a point each.

On­ly 24 min­utes play or 34 de­liv­er­ies were pos­si­ble in the match that saw Tallawahs win­ning the toss and ask­ing the Pa­tri­ots to take the first knock and they reached 46 with­out loss with Chris Lynn 23 not out, which in­clud­ed two six­es and a four from the 15 balls he faced, while Evin Lewis 21 not out of 19 balls in­clud­ed two fours and a six.

How­ev­er, with the Pa­tri­ots en­joy­ing their best start of the se­ries at around 10:25 am, the rain came in the fifth over to send the play­ers off. The rain came from the Gulf of Paria which is op­po­site to what nor­mal­ly hap­pens rained con­sis­tent­ly for a long pe­ri­od.

When the game was called off at 1.10 pm the rain has eased up with light show­ers.

The Pa­tri­ots now have played nine match­es and they get one point from this washout to move to three have now been elim­i­nat­ed from reach­ing the fi­nal four. The Tallawahs go to sev­en points from eight match­es and will now have to win at least one of their fi­nal two match­es to reach the se­mi-fi­nals.

The washout brings the de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents back in­to the equa­tion as they will have to win their fi­nal two match­es against Guyana Ama­zon War­riors (Thurs­day) the oth­er against the Tallawahs on Sat­ur­day. The Tri­dents al­so need the Tallawahs lose against the St Lu­cia Zouks on Sun­day, if their are to reach the se­mi-fi­nals.

SCORES: St. Kitts/Nevis Pa­tri­ots 46/0 (5.2)(Chris Lynn 23no, Evin Lewis 21no) - Match Aban­doned.