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Pretorius All-round performance powers Guyana to win back-to-back GSL titles
Guyana Amazon Warriors and San Francisco Unicorns scored 164 runs in the match, which was the lowest-scoring match of the Global Super League 2026 season. Amazon Warriors won their second title in a row despite having the lowest successful defense in T20 tournament final history.
Additionally, it set a record for the lowest match total in a T20 franchise league final. Six other tournament finals have had lower match aggregates, but those were either international tournaments or domestic - club/state/district - tournaments.
Last man Callum Stow set off for a quick single after pushing Matthew Forde to mid-off with ten balls left and seven runs needed for Unicorns to pass Amazon Warriors' 85. It was a scramble, but with Shimron Hetmyer knocking down the stumps at the bowler's end, it was all over.
The game belonged to the bowlers from the get-go after Amazon Warriors opted to bat. By 6.2 overs, their top five were back in the dugout, with Rahmanullah Gurbaz scoring the most runs with 8. At that point, the scoreboard read 25 for 5 with three of the wickets going to Peter Siddle.
Things didn't get better for Amazon Warriors till they had Dwaine Pretorius and Forde come together for the ninth wicket with the scoreboard reading 29 for 8. They added 41 runs together and Forde, the No. 10, top-scored with 28 off 23. That did not quite take Amazon Warriors to a defendable-looking total, but anything was better than the 30-odd all out they had been staring at after Anirudh Immanuel had returned incredible figures of 3 for 7 from four overs with his legspin to take over the mantle from Siddle in the middle overs.
Set 86 to win, Unicorns actually got off to a better start than the home side. Pretorius struck twice and Gudakesh Motie once inside three overs to leave them at 28 for 3, but Oliver Peake was playing the innings of the final, dominating the scoring as he partnered Hassan Khan for 22 runs in ten balls for the third wicket.
But run-scoring looked close to impossible when the No. 5, Sanjay Krishnamurthi, was on strike, especially against Mohammad Nabi. Krishnamurthi scored 9 in 24 balls in a stand of 25 with Peake that took 43 balls. However, given that the target was only a short distance away, there would not have been any alarms at this point. But Nabi sent back Krishnamurthi and Peake, who scored 31 runs in 28 balls, in the tenth and 12th overs, respectively, and Imran Tahir struck twice in the 11th over to completely alter the game's course.
It came down to the last wicket, with 14 to get from 14 balls, and then the run out, which sealed the game, and two GSL titles in three seasons for Amazon Warriors. The unanimous choice for Player of the Match was Pretorius.