St Kitts and Nevis Patriots vs Antigua and Barbuda Falcons, 1st Match - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

So that's all from the opening game of CPL 2025. A dominant win for the home side St Kitts and Nevis Patriots. Let's see how this tournament goes on from here, we'll be back tomorrow. See you then, bye for now!

Jason Holder: The bowlers were outstanding, we got wickets throughout the innings. Credit to Waqar for the way he has started here in CPL. It makes life easy when you have quality bowling, we want to be consistent - not get too high or too low. The past is history, we need to create our own legacy. Our destiny is in our hands. This is a new group, new leader, new management. The energy in the dressing room is great, Fletcher is always at his comical best. We enjoyed the support of the fans, this is a ground I enjoy playing my cricket in. Would love if the fans keep coming out and supporting us.

Imad Wasim: When the match started, we wanted to get around 160-170 but we didn't build partnerships and we played some bad shots at crucial times. The wicket looked like it would turn because of the moisture. If the wickets are like this, we will play plenty of spinners. I feel we bowled really well, if we got two more wickets the game would have been very close. Really honoured to captain, really enjoying my last 3-4 years in cricket. (Message to the fans) Please come and support us. Today was not the result you wanted but hopefully we are going to do better next time.

Waqar Salamkheil | Player of the Match: Today's my first match for St Kitts, I am really happy that I did really well and we won the game. The wicket supported me a lot and I enjoyed. (Relationship with the players from the subcontinent) They are like my brothers, we talk a lot.

22:03 Local Time, 02:03 GMT, 07:33 IST: Chased on a canter! An under par target and the Patriots have been extremely professional about it. Evin Lewis started it off with a hat-trick of fours against Ghazanfar, while Andre Fletcher anchored around. Rakheem Cornwall proved to be a spanner in the works in the middle, as he struck twice post the powerplay and curbed the scoring rate, but the target was always going to be too slim. Alick Athanaze played a breezy knock of 37*, while he was supported by the new skipper Jason Holder as St Kitts and Nevis Patriots have chased this down with five overs to spare. Earlier, it was Salamkheil's four-fer that helped the home side bundle out the Falcons for just 121 runs. Stick around for the presentations.

Jayden Seales to Athanaze, FOUR, game over!! A pitched up delivery onto the pads, Athanaze with a stylish flick through mid-wicket for a boundary. The Patriots win by 6 wickets, the home fans rejoice.

Jayden Seales to Holder, 1 run, slower length ball, pulled off the inside half towards deep square leg. Scores are level

Jayden Seales to Holder, no ball, bouncer that goes over the head once again. Holder gestures towards the umpire asking for a no ball because of the second bouncer. The umpire obliges. Free hit to follow

Jayden Seales to Athanaze, 1 run, extra bounce on this length ball that angles outside off, run down to wide third-man

Jayden Seales to Athanaze, no run, fuller delivery onto off, driven towards mid-off

Jayden Seales to Athanaze, no run, pace off, on a length and outside off, just over the attempted cut. A review from the fielding side for a caught behind, but nothing on UltraEdge

Jayden Seales to Athanaze, 5 wides, Oopsie... A bouncer from Seales, shoots up off the deck, over the batter's head and bounces over the keeper. Five wides

Jayden Seales to Athanaze, no run, good length and angling across, punched towards backward point

Jayden Seales [1.0-0-14-0] is back into the attack

Odean Smith to Athanaze, 1 run, pitched up and was the slower delivery, chipped down to long-on

Odean Smith to Athanaze, FOUR, pitched up and outside off, Athanaze plays a lovely square drive and through the gap for a boundary

Odean Smith to Holder, leg byes, 1 run, full toss onto the thigh pad, deflects towards backward square

Odean Smith to Holder, FOUR, back of length and outside off, Holder stays tall and pulls it away over mid-wicket for a boundary

Odean Smith to Holder, wide, full and slides down the leg side

Odean Smith to Athanaze, 1 run, back of length onto the body, pulled towards deep backward square leg