“Yuh tink is so de ting does work?” Calypso History Month has just begun and the 2024 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL), the biggest party in sport, has just ended. How are they connected? Well, if you know where to look, you can find several through-lines. There’s no Lying …
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The day after the end of the T20 World Cup, my daughter and a friend of ours were at my home, and as I was talking cricket, he suggested we have a lime to watch the final. I burst out laughing, explaining that the final had already gone and the …
Read More »RBCPL2024: Pooran, Carty power TKR to 44-run win over St Kitts Patriots
Led by the in-form Nicholas Pooran, the Trinbago Knight Riders easily moved past St Kitts and Nevis Patriots in the third match of the Republic Bank CPL 2024 at Warner Park in Basseterre, Saint Kitts on Saturday. Man-of-the-Match Pooran fell only three short of what would have been a well-deserved …
Read More »RBCPL24: Will Amazon Warriors do double? Wired868 previews T20 tourney
For years, the Guyana Amazon Warriors were the bridesmaids of the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League, the 12th edition of which bowls off in Antigua today. But after whipping four-time champions Trinbago Knight Riders in an anti-climactic final at home in 2023, Imran Tahir’s side seem poised to repeat in …
Read More »Will Powell follow Pollard, Pooran and produce purple patch against Proteas? Or in CPL?
Former West Indies white ball captains Kieron Pollard and Nicholas Pooran showed off their power-hitting to excellent effect in The Hundred in England. But good tings, as another former West Indies captain might say, come in trees. So is it too much to expect current West Indies white ball captain Rovman …
Read More »Early Bird: Told ya! GAW put karmic classic cutarse on complacent TKR
Calmer than you imagine any Trinbago cricket fan would be, Bobby smirked his way through our entire fo’daymorning Republic Day walk. A smirk is a kind of fleeting oral halo. It is a personal recognition of if not saintliness, at least rightness. Maybe not every time, it concedes-cum-brags, but this …
Read More »Early Bird: Echoing Denyse Plummer; TKR support nah leaving—it’s more than cricket
That Monday morning when Bobby sent me back to the 1950s and an old Sparrow kaiso about Carnival queens, Denyse Plummer was still with us… Fo’daymorning. I pull up in front of his house as usual to start our walk to the Eddie Hart Savannah. On the way, he makes …
Read More »CPL 23: Simmons banks on vets as TKR reveal retentions; Caribbean players confirmed
Trinbago Knight Riders head coach Phil Simmons is banking on his veterans to come good, as they prepare for the 2023 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) season with few changes to their roster of regional players. TKR finished bottom of the CPL standings in 2022, with just three wins …
Read More »CPL 23: DJ Bravo, the CPL’s most successful player, rejoins TKR; Pollard: “Very exciting times…”
Five-time Caribbean Premier League (CPL) champion Dwayne “DJ” Bravo will return to the Trinbago Knight Riders for the 2023 Republic Bank CPL competition. The move was confirmed by the TKR management today, just hours after the appointment of former West Indies coach Phil Simmons as head coach of the franchise. …
Read More »Vaneisa: The Pollard principle—‘full of energy, strategic and sharp, [and] committed’
Two days ago, Kieron Pollard turned 35. He did not play in the Mumbai Indians’ match against Chennai Super Kings on the same day, which proved to be one of the rare victories for the MI team during this IPL season. Before the match, the ESPNcricinfo website posted a discussion …
Read More »Orin: Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana need ‘reset’ from lingering political animosities
“[…] When the incumbent David Granger administration tried to stop the party of Bharrat Jagdeo and Irfaan Ali from taking office after an election they’d won in March 2020, some in that party felt that Dr Keith Rowley was soft on Granger, in contrast to his Barbadian and Vincentian colleagues …
Read More »CPL 2022: TKR sign Pooran and Russell; Bravos reunited at Patriots; King, Allen join Tallawahs
The Trinbago Knight Riders made a bold statement in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) pre-draft today as they announced the signatures of wicketkeeper/batsman Nicholas Pooran and allrounder Andre Russell, who represented the Guyana Amazon Warriors and Jamaica Tallawahs respectively last season. The 2022 CPL season bowls off on 30 August …
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