Guyana Amazon Warriors v St Lucia Zouks – 08/09/2020

Guyana v St Lucia – CPL Betting Tips, Latest Odds, Team News, Predictions – 08/09/2020

The Guyana Amazon Warriors and St Lucia Zouks will play the second semi-final of the CPL 2020. The winner will play the Trinbago Knight Riders or Jamaica Tallawahs in the final.

Guyana and St Lucia are both chasing a maiden tournament title. Read our CPL betting tips for information on this important match.

Guyana Amazon Warriors v St Lucia Zouks – Match Preview

Guyana and St Lucia beat each other once earlier in the CPL 2020. In 2019, Guyana won on both occasions.

The Amazon Warriors have been in the CPL play-offs on several occasions. Based on this experience and their current form, they are the favourites to win this one.

Where: Brian Lara Stadium, Tarouba, Trinidad

When: Tuesday, 8 September 2020

Start time: 21:30 GMT (03:00 IST, next day)

Pitch conditions: The Brian Lara Stadium has been good to teams chasing rather than setting targets of late. The spinners have enjoyed more bounce here than in Port of Spain. A score of around 170 from the team batting second could prove a winner.

Weather conditions: Gratefully, no wet weather is predicted in Tarouba on Tuesday. We should get in full fixture. Temperatures should hang around the high 20 degrees celsius and humidity levels will be characteristic of the Caribbean.

Guyana Amazon Warriors v St Lucia Zouks – Latest Odds

The St Lucia Zouks are priced as the underdogs at 2.25 to win the match by Rizk.

The same betting website has the Guyana Amazon Warriors as favourites at 1.62.

Guyana Amazon Warriors v St Lucia Zouks – Team News

Shimron Hetmyer of Guyana and Roston Chase of the Zouks were the players of the match when the teams met earlier in the CPL 2020. Big performances are expected from them again.

Plenty of onus will be on Hetmyer, Nicholas Pooran, Brandon King, Chandrapaul Hemraj and Ross Taylor to score runs in the wake of Sherfane Rutherford’s poor form.

Leg-spinner Imran Tahir and seamer Naveen-ul-Haq are Guyana’s leading wicket-takers for the season.

The Zouks will have Najibullah Zadran and Mohammad Nabi for this semi-final after all. They are not headed back to Afghanistan for domestic cricket, yet.

Nabi will go to the Indian Premier League after the CPL.

Both are key with the bat, while Nabi will look for support from the in-form Kesrick Williams and Scott Kuggeleijn with the ball.

Guyana Amazon Warriors v St Lucia Zouks – Squads

Guyana Amazon Warriors v St Lucia Zouks – Betting Tips and Prediction

Here are three expert cricket tips to keep you informed for the second CPL 2020 semi-final. Our team have followed the tournament closely and have based these predictions on the best odds.

Pick St Lucia to Have the Top Bowler

The Zouks haven’t had the best batsmen this CPL season, but they’ve come this far on the back of a sound bowling department.

Form-wise, their bowlers are looking stronger than what the Amazon Warriors have on offer. We’ reckon Williams and company will do better than Tahir and team-mates this time.

Dafabet India have the Zouks priced at 1.98 to have the top bowler.

Choose a 50 Not to Be Scored

We can see this shaping up to be a low-scoring affair, as pressure and a tiring pitch get to the batsmen. There are markets around that offer odds on a century to be scored, but that’s on the other extreme.

We reckon not even a half-century will be hit, as a string of big-name batsmen get it wrong here. LeoVegas have no 50 in the match priced at 3.3.

Bet on Rutherford to be Guyana’s Top Batsman

Sherfane Rutherford’s talent pledged a big CPL T20 2020 campaign, but that didn’t happen. He quickly slipped out of the first-choice XI.

He has been given limited opportunity since. He’s still a great player, despite his current lapse. This potential could see Guyana take another chance on him.

He has Hetmyer, Pooran, Taylor and others to beat in this market, but 10CRIC have Rutherford offered at 9.5 to be the top batsman for the Amazon Warriors. We’d take this long shot.

Make sure you read our round-up of best bets for this match before it begins.