Zampa keeps weaving Caribbean web

The match in a tweet: Zampa spins a web as Guptill and Lynn make mockery of run chase to keep Guyana Amazon Warriors unbeaten

The result: St Kitts & Nevis Patriots 108-8 (L Simmons 50, A Zampa 3-18) were beaten by the Guyana Amazon Warriors 109-6 (M Guptill 43, S Badree 2-18) by seven wickets with 22 balls to spare.

The hero: Adam Zampa's three wickets have helped him become the Caribbean Premier League's leading wicket-taker and maintain the Guyana Amazon Warriors' unbeaten season with victory against the St Kitts & Nevis Patriots today.

Zampa's 3-18 sees the Melbourne Stars and Australia leg-spinner and teammate Sohail Tanvir, who added 1-19 today, lead the pack with nine wickets from their four matches. Zampa's scalps have come at the impressive average of 10.88 although his economy rate is a touch above 6.5 runs per over.

Zampa was introduced into the attack at the end of the six-over PowerPlay and he picked up from where he left off in Guyana's last match against the Jamaica Tallawahs. Here he conceded just one run from his first over and claimed a wicket in his second.

Zampa's first wicket came when St Kitts skipper Faf du Plessis chased a wide ball and skied a top-edge to the slips cordon to depart for one.

Zampa's second owed much to the outstanding catch in the deep from Trinidad & Tobago's Jason Mohammed – the bowler had lost his grip and delivered a full toss that was skied high into the on-side where Mohammed ran in to take a diving catch as the ball fell into the outfield.

Much more impressive was the googly that bowled South African JJ Smuts for a golden duck.

The never seen before: We've seen it before in the back yard, and in the nets, but Lendl Simmons took the one-pad approach to batting to a new level in this match. The Caribbean star who impressed last season in the Big Bash League with the Brisbane Heat decided to bat with just the front pad.

Such was the difficulty with which the Patriots were finding boundary hitting Lendl Simmons removed one of his pads so that he could be more manoeuvrable. It appeared to work as he top scored for St Kitts with 50 but it took him 60 balls to get there.

Simmons’ patient innings was the slowest half-century ever made in the CPL, but it at least helped his team to a target that gave the bowlers something to defend.

The support cast: Having restricted St Kitts & Nevis to just 8-108, Guyana batsmen Martin Guptill and Chris Lynn made a mockery of the chase, racing to a 60-run partnership.

Guptill slammed four sixes and three boundaries in his knock of 43 from 22 balls – including consecutive gift leg-side full tosses from Smuts that were appropriately dealt with to give the fans some catching practice.

The Brisbane Heat's Lynn continued his good form in this tournament to add 32 from 37 balls with one monster six into the Guyana grandstand off the bowling of fellow Heat teammate Samuel Badree, until he succumbed to the difficult track and was bowled by a beauty from Smuts that beat the bat and took the top of off-stump.

The controversy: Emotions and frustrations got the better of St Kitts bowler Krishmar Santokie who returned fire with an aggressive throw after fielding a ball defended back to him. Santokie was lucky that Guyana batsman Steven Jacobs got his bat in the way and kept a cool head before the umpires intervened, but it's likely Santokie will be hearing from the match referee over this one.

The wash-up: Guyana remain top of the table with a perfect record of four wins from four matches. St Kitts & Nevis have just one win from five matches but are not propping up the table thanks to a run rate that is superior to that of the teams from Trinidad and St Lucia