“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 …
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“[…] What has been the real economic benefit and value to the Caribbean people of the CPL? We have given so much yet receive so little. “While all of this is happening, under the CPL, territorial rivalry has grown to dangerous proportions, with violence breaking out at matches and the …
Read More »RBCPL24: Powell’s Royals see light at end of the tunnel; after controversial TKR KO
For roughly two hours, cricket fanatics in Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean shared memes and amused themselves as the ground staff and the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) organisers hurriedly tried to address the outage of two lighting towers at National Stadium in Providence, Guyana on Tuesday night. At approximately …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Glorious uncertainties my foot! Andre Fletcher’s hapless Saint Kitts and Nevis Patriots have deservedly been put out to pasture, completely unable to raise a finger to save themselves. Their nearest neighbours, Chris Green’s Antigua and Barbuda Falcons showed that they had something but it simply was not enough; they too …
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 …
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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 …
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Kieron Pollard’s side are the Knight Riders. But on Sunday night in Match 25 of the 2024 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League at the BCLA in Tarouba, Andre Fletcher’s Saint Kitts and Nevis Patriots were the runaway horses. They started like a high-speed train and stopped a mere seven runs …
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