Hetmyer hit eight sixes in a 45-ball hundred, and Guyana still went out of the CPL
A first-season franchise has knocked out the side that won eight of its ten league games. Rovman Powell’s 17-ball 40 did most of the damage.
Sep 19, 2026
Guyana Amazon Warriors finished on top of the Caribbean Premier League table with eight wins from ten, and their season is over. Jamaica Kingsmen, fourth on eight points and in the playoffs on net run rate, chased 207 at Kensington Oval on Friday night to reach the final.
Shimron Hetmyer made 102 not out from 45 balls in the same match. It was not enough, and he knew it before the presentations were done.
Hetmyer’s hundred
Hetmyer hit four fours and eight sixes and finished unbeaten on 102, carrying Guyana to 206 for 4. It was his third CPL century and his second of this season. Shai Hope made 40 and Quentin Sampson 29 either side of him.
Hassan Khan had the best figures for Jamaica with 1 for 25.
Two hundred and six in a knockout looked like a night’s work done.
Sadaqat and Carty set it up, Powell took it
Maaz Sadaqat removed any thought of a steady chase. He hit 41 from 17 balls inside the powerplay, five fours and three sixes, and by the time he went Jamaica were ahead of the rate rather than hunting it.
Keacy Carty did the less glamorous part. His fifty came off 35 balls, he added 48 in 32 with Kirk McKenzie before Imran Tahir broke that up, and he was run out for 56 with the game still live.
Which left Rovman Powell, who has spent a career being the answer to exactly this question. He faced 17 balls, hit two fours and four sixes, and finished on 40 not out. One of the sixes was a pull off left-arm spinner Khary Pierre that landed on the roof of the stand.
Jamaica got home at 207 for 5 with two balls to spare.
“I think, maybe it is the best one that I’ve played. It’s the most impactful,” Powell said afterwards.
He was clear about what changed. “When you’re batting to survive, your intent is different from when you’re batting to really score.”
Powell was named player of the match and gave half of it to Hetmyer.
A first-year franchise in the final
The Kingsmen are new. They joined the CPL this year as the seventh franchise, the first Jamaican side in the league since the Tallawahs went defunct in 2023, and Powell was one of the local players they were allowed to take first in the draft.
Their playoff route was the hard one. They beat Barbados Tridents by nine wickets in the Eliminator, then knocked out the table-toppers. Guyana lost both of their playoff matches, having lost only twice in the league stage.
The final is on Sunday against Antigua and Barbuda Falcons, back at Kensington Oval, which is hosting a CPL final for the first time. It starts at 7pm local time, which is 4.30am on Monday in India.
The Falcons got there in the shortest way available, bowling Guyana out for 76 in Qualifier 1 and knocking off 77 inside six overs. Jamaica have arrived via two knockout games they could not afford to lose. On Friday night, that looked like the better preparation.