Chase and Jones guide Kings to their first CPL championship

St Lucia Kings successfully chased down Guyana Amazon Warriors' total of 138 for 8, winning the match by six wickets. Tim David top-scored for the Kings with an unbeaten 48, while Roston Chase contributed with 39 runs. Fidel Edwards was the standout bowler for the Kings, taking 3 wickets for 19 runs, while Obed McCoy and Keemo Paul chipped in with a wicket each.

Two months after sprinter Julien Alfred delivered St Lucia's first gold medal in the Olympics, St Lucia's very own Daren Sammy and his Kings gave the region its maiden CPL title, silencing a packed crowd at the Providence.

The crowd had been at its loudest when Guyana Amazon Warriors reduced Kings to 51 for 4 in their chase of 139 on a slow, two-paced surface. Kings went nine overs without a single boundary. Roston Chase was battling illness. Aaron Jones was struggling so much that Sammy contemplated retiring him out. Amazon Warriors' four-pronged spin attack had their side dreaming of back-to-back titles.

Jones, however, turned the tables on them and crushed their dream. After being on 10 off 19 balls, Jones zoomed to 38 off his next 12 balls, forging an unbroken 88-run partnership with Chase, who has been with Kings for five seasons.

Chase played the Marlon Samuels role, something he's been doing for West Indies for a while, and capped a stellar week for him, in which he had also earned a CWI central contract.

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