On 21 September, the top two teams of CPL 2024 competed. In this clash between Barbados Royals and St Lucia Kings, there was hope of a rain of runs but there was a fall of wickets. The bowlers of St Lucia Kings wreaked havoc on the batsmen of Barbados Royals, as a result of which they were all out for their third lowest score in T20 after the name change. The bowler of St Lucia Kings who troubled Barbados Royals the most was Alzari Joseph, who took 9 wickets on the pitch of CPL 2024.

Special plan for De Kock who hit 23 sixes

27-year-old Alzari Joseph attacked the top to middle order of Barbados Royals, who came to bat first in the match. Due to his attack with tremendous planning, he was able to make all the famous batsmen of Barbados Royals a prey. As Alzari told after the match that he had made a special plan for the in-form Quinton de Kock, who hit 23 sixes in CPL 2024, which was successful. He had planned to go around the wicket and bowl to de Kock on the stumps.

Alzari Joseph gave his best in CPL 2024

Right-arm fast bowler Alzari Joseph gave his best performance so far in CPL 2024. He took 4 wickets for 22 runs against Barbados Royals. With this, his total number of wickets in the 7 matches played so far in CPL 2024 has become 9. Against Barbados Royals, he not only dismissed Rahkeem Cornwall and Quinton de Kock in the top order, but also took the wickets of captain Rovman Powell and David Miller in the middle order. That is, he took all the big wickets of Barbados in his quota of 4 overs.

Third lowest score after name change

The result of Alzari's effective bowling was that Barbados Royals could not even score 100 runs. They could score only 96 runs for 9 wickets in 20 overs. This is the third lowest total of Barbados Royals after the name change in T20 cricket. In the year 2021, Barbados Tridents was renamed as Barbados Royals. Since then, this team has been all out once on 61 runs (CPL 2023) and once on 93 runs (CPL 2021).

won the match 37 balls earlier

However, the target of 97 runs given by Barbados Royals to St. Lucia Kings, captained by Faf du Plessis, was achieved with 37 balls to spare. St. Lucia Kings won the match by losing 3 wickets in 13.5 overs and with this, they also got the license to play the playoffs.