At 124 without loss in the 12th over of Qualifier 1 in the Republic Bank 2024 Caribbean Premier League (CPL), Faf du Plessis’ Saint Lucia Kings were sitting pretty. Du Plessis and Johnson Charles, SLK’s unchanged opening pair, had powered their way to a score that put them in position …
Read More »RBCPL24: Pooran bats lights out again but Royals send TKR home
Fresh from his stellar 101 against the Guyana Amazon Warriors in Match 30 of the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL), Nicholas Pooran damblayed his impressive run-scoring form in the playoffs on Tuesday evening. But it was all in vain. Man-of-the-Match David Miller struck eight mighty blows, five of them …
Read More »RBCPL24: When Nortje chose David over Goliath and let TKR escape a Patriots licking
Sunday night at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba. With his side chasing a challenging 193 for victory, Trinbago’s Nicholas Pooran was swashbuckling his way to a possible third CPL century. And smiling like a Cheshire cat—even though he did not get to three figures by the end of …
Read More »RBCPL24: Pooran wins battle for TKR; but GAW edge war for top-two finish
In the splendid third CPL century he scored on Sunday evening, Nicholas Pooran got only one life. His 59-ball 101 put Trinbago Knight Riders on track to score a massive win over heavy favourites Guyana Amazon Warriors in Match 30 of the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) at Providence …
Read More »RBCPL24: TKR sail after Pooran fail; nothing from de Kock—Royals out of luck
When Nicholas Pooran does not get off, Trinbago Knight Riders do not get over the line. Sometimes. In Match 28 of the 2024 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) at the BLCA in Tarouba on Friday, Pooran made 27. When Quinton de Kock does not get off, Barbados Royals do …
Read More »RBCPL24: GAW turn to Hettie and Hope to whoop Royals
Hit and hope is an approach to batting sometimes employed by T20 batsmen and even teams, not always successfully. In Match 27 of the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) at Providence on Wednesday evening, the Guyana Amazon Warriors relied on Hettie and Hope (Shimron Hetmyer and Shai Hope). And …
Read More »RBCPL24: Du Plessis, Pollard pay tribute to DJ Bravo; Kings eye T20 throne
“What a player, what a career and what a man!” St Lucia Kings captain Faf du Plessis was speaking at the end of Tuesday’s 2024 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) Match 26 on Tuesday, which his St Lucia Kings won convincingly by 81 runs. But those ten words were …
Read More »RBCPL24: Charles’ superlative 89 against TKR puts St Lucia Kings in pole position
As T20 cricketing brains go, both Kieron Pollard and Kieron Pollard’s are right up there with them. But when the Saint Lucia Kings’ Johnson Charles asked the questions of him at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba on Tuesday morning, the Trinbago Knight Riders skipper had no answers. And …
Read More »RBCPL24: Moeen paces Warriors, as Falcons fail in top four bid
On a Providence pitch that made batting no easy task, defending champions Guyana Amazon Warriors struggled and struggled and then struggled some more. And then, in Match 23 of the 2024 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) which they won by 27 runs on Saturday evening, came Moeen Ali. Actually, …
Read More »RBCPL24: Hetmyer, Joseph steal show for dominant Warriors against STKNP
Shamar Joseph and Shimron Hetmyer dominated the proceedings at Providence in Guyana on Friday when the Guyana Amazon Warriors beat the already eliminated Saint Kitts and Nevis Patriots by 30 runs. But Ryan John was in the spotlight. Not in a good way. In the 20th and final over of …
Read More »RBCPL24: Hungover TKR fall to Falcons again in incident-filled face-off
Kuchoor! Imad Wasim was given not out LBW off Sunil Narine. And then out. And then not out. And then… In the end, the visitors duly completed it by 6 wickets, posting 135 for 4 in reply to TKR’s paltry 134 for 8 at the Queen’s Park Oval on Thursday. …
Read More »RBCPL24: Dre Russ turns in ‘Champion’ performance as TKR edge GAW
They came in their numbers on Wednesday to see the four-time champions, Trinbago Knight Riders, against the defending champions, Guyana Amazon Warriors. And to see Dwayne Bravo, the retiring ‘Champion’, do his thing one last time at the Queen’s Park Oval. What they saw, on a far-from-dry field that caused …
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