Jamaica Kingsmen were 0 for 2 in the first over, and won at Sabina Park by 51 runs
Saurabh Netravalkar struck twice in the opening over of the night. The Kingsmen still made 181 and bowled the St Kitts and Nevis Patriots out for 130.
Aug 19, 2026
The first over at Sabina Park on 18 August brought two wickets and no runs, and the team that lost them still won by 51. Saurabh Netravalkar bowled Kirk McKenzie with the second ball of the night, had Keacy Carty caught behind three balls later, and the Jamaica Kingsmen were 0 for 2 in front of their own crowd.
They finished on 181 for 6. The St Kitts and Nevis Patriots, chasing 182, were bowled out for 130 with two overs still unused.
Powell and Paul put on 99
Netravalkar’s double strike was not the end of it. Wanindu Hasaranga had Usman Khan lbw and Reeza Hendricks caught behind, and at 54 for 4 in the eighth over the Kingsmen looked like a side heading for 130 rather than defending it.
Rovman Powell and Keemo Paul then added 99 for the fifth wicket, and they did it quickly enough that the Patriots never got the innings back. Fifty of those runs came in 38 balls. Paul brought up his own fifty in a hurry and kept going, five fours and five sixes in a 65 that ended at 153 when Jason Holder had him caught at long on by Kevin Wickham.
Powell fell one short of a fifty, caught and bowled by Obed McCoy in the 19th over for 49 from 39. Andre Russell walked in with under two overs left and hit two sixes in seven balls, finishing 14 not out. Eight byes in the extras column pushed the total past 180.
Netravalkar’s figures read 2 for 43 from his four overs, which is the shape of a night where the new ball did everything and the rest of it did not. Hasaranga went for 36, Holder for 30, McCoy for 27.
The chase folded in the middle
The Patriots lost three inside the powerplay too, and unlike Jamaica they had nobody to build a stand. Andre Fletcher was caught for 7, Johnson Charles fell for 11, Kyle Mayers was bowled by Paul for 8, and 45 for 3 after six overs became 78 for 5 at the halfway mark.
Wickham fought for a while, 37 from 34 balls with two sixes, and Navin Bidaisee made 19 from 16 before retiring out at 108 for 6, a decision that told you what the required rate had become. Nikhil Chaudhary was lbw to Vitel Lawes for 18. Dasun Shanaka was run out for 2. From 108 the last four wickets went down for 22.
Paul took 3 for 30 to go with the 65 and was player of the match. Russell’s four overs cost 19 and brought him the wickets of Wickham and Holder. Hunain Shah and Hassan Khan took one each, and the innings closed in the 18th over when Hasaranga edged Paul to Odean Smith.
Three defeats, then two wins
Jamaica’s return to the CPL began badly. The Kingsmen lost their opening match to the Antigua and Barbuda Falcons off the last ball, lost to the Barbados Tridents by five runs, then lost to the Guyana Amazon Warriors with 35 balls to spare. Three games, three defeats, two of them close enough to hurt.
Since then they have beaten the Trinbago Knight Riders and now the Patriots, and five matches into the season they sit second with four points, ahead of the Saint Lucia Kings on net run rate and behind the unbeaten Tridents. No side has played more cricket than Jamaica so far.
The Patriots drop to seventh. One win from three, a net run rate of minus 0.964, and a batting order that has now been bowled out inside 18 overs on a ground where 182 was gettable. They face the Falcons next.