Narine bowls maiden in Super Over

West Indies spinner Sunil Narine has produced what it believed to be a world first, bowling a maiden in a Super Over tiebreaker in the Caribbean Premier League.

Playing for the Guyana Amazon Warriors against the Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel, Narine produced five dot balls and a wicket in a remarkable performance to win the match for his team.

After both teams finished tied on 119, Guyana scored 11 runs off their over, leaving T&T 12 runs to win.

But it quickly became apparent they stood no chance against the magic of Narine, who is rated the No.2 bowler in the world in both one-day and T20 international cricket.

Bowling to wicketkeeper-batsman Nicolas Pooran, who had earlier smashed 37 from 17 balls, Narine lured the 18-year-old into four play-and-misses to start to over before he had him caught on the long-off boundary.

With T&T needing 12 runs from the final delivery, Narine completed the maiden when he beat an attempted slog-sweep from Kiwi star Ross Taylor.

The Red Steel were left kicking themselves, in particular the teenager Pooran, after T&T had missed several golden opportunities to win the match in a chaotic final over of Guyana's innings.

Starting the 20th over and needing 12 to win, Guyana were in trouble when they scored just three runs from the first three balls.

But a woeful misfield by Fidel Edwards resulted in a boundary. That boiled down to three to win from the final ball when Ronsford Beaton top-edged a shot high into the air.

The ball went so high the batsmen were on their way back for a second, match-tying run when the chance fell to Pooran, who had barely been required to move from his mark, and spilled straight through his gloves to the turf.

That tied scores to force the Super Over, T20 cricket's method of determining a winner when the innings scores are tied.