Jamaica were 87 for 6, Hassan Khan got them to 159, and Guyana still won with 16 balls to spare
Dwaine Pretorius struck twice in the powerplay, Rahmanullah Gurbaz made a 35-ball 54, and the only unbeaten side in the Caribbean Premier League stayed that way.
Sep 5, 2026
Jamaica Kingsmen were 87 for 6 in the 14th over at Providence and going nowhere. Hassan Khan then hit 62 not out off 29 balls, six of them for six, and dragged them to 159 for 7.
It made no difference at all. Guyana Amazon Warriors knocked the runs off in 17.2 overs for the loss of two wickets, and they have now played five matches in this Caribbean Premier League and won all five.
Powell went first ball, and Hassan Khan went to work
Guyana won the toss on the night of 4 September and bowled. Dwaine Pretorius removed Kirk McKenzie in the first over and Keacy Carty in the fifth, both lbw, and finished with 2 for 20 from three overs. Khary Pierre took the other two, 2 for 21 from his four.
The innings properly came apart in the 13th over. Keemo Paul was run out at 83, and one ball later Mohammad Nabi bowled Rovman Powell for a golden duck. Jamaica’s captain had faced a single delivery. Maaz Sadaqat, who had been holding an end for 34 balls, went at 87.
What followed was the best batting of the match by some distance. Hassan Khan reached his fifty off 24 balls and put on 50 for the seventh wicket with Odean Smith in 29 balls. Jamaica added 72 runs after that sixth wicket fell. Against most totals that is a rescue job worth talking about for a week.
Sixty-five in the powerplay settled it
Guyana took 65 off the first six overs for the loss of Mavendra Dindyal, who made 33 from 17 balls with four sixes in them. Rahmanullah Gurbaz went to his fifty in 31 balls and was caught by Powell off Maaz Sadaqat for 54, by which point the score was 114 for 2 in the 13th over and the chase was a formality.
Shai Hope finished on 39 not out and Shimron Hetmyer on 30 from 17, and Guyana got there with 16 balls in hand. Pretorius took the player of the match award for his two wickets, which tells you how little the batting was tested.
Five wins, and four games in hand
The table reads strangely because of how few matches Guyana have played. Antigua and Barbuda Falcons lead it on 11 points, but that is from nine games with five wins, three defeats and a washout. Guyana are second on 10 from five, and they have four matches in hand on the side above them.
Their net run rate is 2.314. Nobody else in the competition is above 0.6, and five of the seven teams are in the negatives. They still have the Patriots, the Falcons and St Lucia Kings to play.
Jamaica are third on eight points from nine, having lost five of them, and their next match is against Barbados Tridents. That one now carries rather more weight than it did a day ago.