The West Indies cricket team conceded their three-match T20 International series away to Pakistan today, losing their second match in as many days at Karachi National Stadium. An improved bunch with bat and ball today, stand-in captain Nicholas Pooran’s troops did not do quite enough to snatch a win, losing …
Read More »Pooran’s makeshift WI XI flattened in Karachi, as Pakistan win opening T20I by 63 runs
West Indies started their tour of Pakistan this morning with a 63-run defeat this morning, captain Nicholas Pooran’s experimental team put to the sword by the hosts at the Karachi National Stadium. Spinner Akeal Hosein removed Pakistan captain and star batsman Babar Azam for a duck with just the fourth …
Read More »Best: Lil pin does chook hard; Walsh jr settles question of WI size
Hayden Walsh jr stands only 5’7” in his socks. But since last October, he has been steadily rising to the challenge of being a West Indian cricketer at last. But no matter how high he climbs, even if he were a 6’4” Alzarri Joseph or a 6’7” Jason Holder or …
Read More »CPL 19 Draft: Gotcha! DJ Bravo pranks TKR fans, as Hales, Malinga and Shadab join CPL party
Once a Knight Rider, always a Knight Rider. Dwayne Bravo isn’t going anywhere. The ‘champion’ all-rounder was selected in the first round of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) draft by two-time defending champions Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR), roughly 24 hours after hinting that he would be leaving the powerhouse franchise. …
Read More »CPL 17: McCullum hurt as Trinbago Knight Riders go under to Pollard’s Tridents
For the first ten overs of their innings in their penultimate qualifying round game against Dwayne Bravo’s Trinbago Knight Riders at Kensington Oval in Barbados last night, Kieron Pollard’s Barbados Tridents looked dead and almost buried. But a fighting record eighth wicket partnership of 47 between Wayne Parnell (44, 35 …
Read More »CPL 2017: Trinbago Knight Riders make a Giant step, Gayle’s Patriots get a soaking
You have paid a “pardna” for tickets for you and your family of five. But with just over quarter of an hour to go before the start of the crucial, potentially pulsating Hero CPL Knight Riders vs Patriots match-up at the Queen’s Park Oval, you are still outside the venue. …
Read More »CPL 17: Ramdin helps Knight Riders see off Patriots, move into Sept play-offs at Tarouba
Denesh “Shotta” Ramdin swatted St Kitts and Nevis Patriots pacer Hasan Ali to the boundary and then roared at the heavens. Against the odds, he had just led the Trinbago Knight Riders to a fifth win in six games and guaranteed them a spot in the four-team play-offs, which will …
Read More »CPL 17: Narine leads charmed life and TKR back to top of CPL table
Nobody yet knows who greased the palms of the Barbados Tridents at the Queen’s Park Oval last night; Sunil Narine is certainly not complaining! The mystery-spinner-turned-Trinbago-Knight-Riders-opening-batsman rode his luck to hit 79, his career highest score in T20 cricket, and lead the home team to their fourth win in five …
Read More »CPL 17: No short drops! Munro pulls Amazon Warriors apart to inspire TKR to 7-wicket win
Colin Munro pulled his way to an entertaining 47-ball 70 as he engineered a comfortable seven-wicket victory for the Trinbago Knight Riders against Guyana Amazon Warriors just past midnight in the capital city of Port-of-Spain. Already with scores of 66 not out and 41 to his name in the current …
Read More »CPL 17: Fast-starting TKR falter on the straight; tense win takes Tallawahs to 3rd place
With eight runs needed off the last nine balls at the Queen’s Park Oval last night, Jamaica Tallawahs’ Jonathan Foo hoists Trinbago Knight Riders’ skipper Dwayne Bravo high to long-on. Waiting for an eternity under the ball at the boundary’s edge, double CPL 2017 Man-of-the-Match Shadab Khan mistimes his leap …
Read More »CPL 17: Shillingford gives T&T fans the shivers; but TKR has last laugh in colourful clash
“We go chase down dem runs in 14 overs,” an eager Carib Stand patron told Wired868, his smile so wide there might have been saliva spilling into his ears. “Fourteen?” another fan within earshot sneered. “Yuh mad or what? We winning in ten!” I was struck by the complete identification …
Read More »CPL 17: Shadab outshines Stars in TKR home win; spin reigns at Oval
There’s a new star in the CPL firmament but he is not from the newly re-named St Lucia franchise. The 18-year-old Shadab Khan was a shining light for the Trinbago Knight Riders in their less-than-convincing four-wicket victory over the St Lucia Stars in Monday night’s CPL 2017 action at the …
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