CPL 2022: Jamaica Tallawahs Win Third Title by 8 Wickets, Brandon King Scores 83* in the Final

Jamaica Tallawahs won their third Caribbean Premier League title on 30 September 2022 at Providence Stadium in Georgetown, Guyana, defeating Barbados Royals by 8 wickets with 23 balls to spare. Barbados Royals posted 161/7; Jamaica Tallawahs chased it down in 16.1 overs at 162/2. Brandon King — Jamaica's right-handed opener — hit 83* to anchor the chase as Player of the Match. King also won Player of the Tournament for the full CPL 2022 campaign with 422 runs, a double that reflects his individual dominance of the competition. Alzarri Joseph (Saint Lucia Kings) was the season's leading wicket-taker with 18 wickets.

Brandon King: 83* and the Match-Winning Chase

Brandon King's unbeaten 83 in the CPL 2022 final was a controlled, powerful innings that turned what might have been a competitive chase into a comfortable 8-wicket victory for Jamaica Tallawahs. King, Jamaica and West Indies' right-handed opening batter, has consistently been one of the CPL's most productive batters — his ability to build an innings from the start of a chase while maintaining a high enough strike rate to leave the target well within reach is one of the most important T20 batting skills. His 83* off the chase was not the aggressive, chanceful batting of a player trying to win a contest alone — it was the measured accumulation of a batter confident that the bowling would do its job.

Jamaica Tallawahs' CPL Bowling in the Final

Fabian Allen (3/24) and Nicholson Gordon (3/33) were Jamaica Tallawahs' bowling stars in the CPL 2022 final, restricting Barbados Royals to 161/7 — a total that, while competitive in some finals, was ultimately insufficient against King's batting. Fabian Allen, the West Indies left-arm spinner and hard-hitting lower-order batter, continued the form that had made him one of the CPL's most dangerous T20 bowlers against right-handers in the competition's slow, turning conditions. Nicholson Gordon, in his first CPL season, marked himself as a future franchise bowling asset with his three-wicket haul under pressure. Azam Khan — Pakistan's wicketkeeper-batter — top-scored for Royals with 51 off 40 balls but could not build the total the final demanded.

CPL Season 10 in Context

CPL 2022 was the competition's 10th anniversary season — a milestone that reflected how Caribbean franchise T20 had grown from its 2013 launch into a competition capable of attracting major international stars and producing globally watched cricket. Jamaica Tallawahs' third title across those 10 seasons made them one of the CPL's most successful franchises. The Providence Stadium final in Guyana — the same venue where Guyana Amazon Warriors would win their maiden title in CPL 2023 — gave the ground a significant place in CPL history: two consecutive years of final-day drama decided at that venue.