How does a team make over 200 runs on consecutive nights in a Twenty/20 game and end up on the losing side? Just ask captain Andre “Spiceman” Fletcher and his St Kitts and Nevis Patriots outfit. After defeating new Republic Bank CPL franchise Antigua and Barbuda Falcons in the first …
Read More »CPL24: Klaasen ruled out; Kings draft Siefert—plus roster tweaks
South Africa batsman Heinrich Klaasen has been ruled out of the 2024 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) due to a family emergency, according to a press statement by the CPL today. Klaasen, who helped the Proteas to second place at the 2024 ICC T20 World Cup, was due to …
Read More »CPL 2021: Ali Khan, Pollard in spotlight as TKR thump back-pedalling Tallawahs
The official record will show Ali Khan as the Man-of-the-Match in the hugely important Match 19 at Warner Park in St Kitts on Tuesday. The 30-year-old Khan, returning to the Trinbago Knight Riders’ line-up after missing half the season, claimed four wickets for six runs to completely undermine the Jamaica …
Read More »CPL 2021: Pooran’s Warriors seal double over Pollard’s TKR in Super Over thriller
Akeal Hosein thought he had won it with a magnificent, one-handed catch on the cover boundary in the 18th over of the second innings of regulation play. Shimron Hetmyer thought he had lost it with a fumble on the mid-wicket boundary on the fourth ball of the super over. In …
Read More »CPL 2021: Fletcher’s unbeaten 81 in vain as Pollard’s TKR avenge surprise loss
One day fuh police, they say, one day fuh tief. Cricket does not always work that way but on Tuesday at Warner Park in St Kitts, it did. Faf du Plessis’ St Lucia Kings, victors when they stopped Kieron Pollard’s Trinbago Knight Riders five runs short of their 157 for …
Read More »CPL 2021: Kings hit back with exciting 5-run win as Pollard’s TKR tally 60 dot balls in second loss
So often the hero for Trinbago Knight Riders, Colin Munro could not buy a boundary on a difficult pitch at Warner Park in St Kitts on Sunday morning. And in the end, it cost the defending champions, who went under to lowly St Lucia Kings by five runs in Match …
Read More »CPL 2021: Kieron Pollard, Denesh Ramdin power TKR to six-wkt win over Jason Holder’s Royals
Despite their modest 122 on the board, Jason Holder’s Barbados looked like they were in with a chance of avoiding a second successive defeat in the 2021 CPL. For all of eight overs into the second innings. But the combination of the small size of St Kitts Warner Park ground …
Read More »CPL 2021: Vice-captain Pooran bests skipper Pollard as Warriors stop TKR winning streak
The Trinbago Knight Riders, led by West Indies white ball captain Kieron Pollard, proved unbeatable throughout the 2020 season, winning all 12 of their Caribbean Premier League games. In the opening encounter of the 2021 season on Thursday at Warner Park in Basseterre, St Kitts, the Guyana Amazon Warriors, astutely …
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