The former and current West Indies Test captains clashed in a battle of all-rounders at the CPL match between St Lucia Kings and St Kitts and Nevis Patriots on Tuesday (August 19).
Roston Chase and Jason Holder shine with bat and ball
After being put in to bat first, St Lucia Kings lost Tim Seifert (12) and Ackeem Auguste (0) early but Johnson Charles and Roston Chase combined for the third wicket to stage a recovery.
Charles was the aggressor early on, scoring 52 off 28 by the time he was dismissed for a team score of 71-3 in the eighth over. Chase was then joined by the in-form Tim David, who smashed five sixes and one four in his 23-ball stay to make 46. At the other end, Chase played his part as well, striking eight fours and a six. The current West Indies Test captain reached his fifty off 30 balls before he was bowled by Fazalhaq Farooqi for 61 off 38 in the 16th over.
Jason Holder then got the wicket of David in the 17th as St Kitts and Nevis Patriots restricted St Lucia to 200-8. Holder was expensive in his three-over spell, conceding 44 runs for the only wicket of David.
St Kitts and Nevis started well, but collapsed from 43-0 in 4.1 overs to 61-4 in 8.1. Holder, the former West Indies skipper now leading the Patriots, came out at No.6 with his team in dire straits.
After managing two runs off his first five balls, Holder tore into Tabraiz Shamsi in the 10th over, smashing him for a four and two sixes. Alzarri Joseph was next in the firing line, conceding a four and a six to Holder in the 12th over, before Shamsi was targeted again in the 13th. The South Africa wrist spinner ended up being hit for two fours and three sixes by Holder in total.
Holder brought up his fifty in the 14th over, slogging David Wiese for six off the 23rd delivery he faced. He then came face-to-face against Chase in an eventful 15th over that had everything: two wides, one dot ball, two twos, a six, and a wicket. Holder was dismissed for 63 off 29 having hit three fours and six sixes. It was only his third T20 half-century, and his first in five years.
Navin Bidaisee (50 off 36) and Jyd Goolie (15 off 13) took the Patriots close, but they fell three runs short of the Kings, finishing on 197-6. Chase's spell of 2-27 in four overs, in which he also dismissed Rilee Rossouw apart from Holder, turned out to be match-winning.
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Chase and Holder complete unique CPL all-round feat
This was the first instance of at least one player from both sides scoring 60-plus runs and taking at least one wicket in a CPL match.
The only other time two players have done the double in a CPL game was in 2013, Kieron Pollard (61* and 3-15) and Shoaib Malik (78 and 1-2) did it for the same side - Barbados Tridents - against St Lucia Zouks.
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