Match 9
Trinbago Knight Riders 158/7 (Pollard 41, Seifert 37; Rampaul 3/34, Udana 2/32) beat Saint Lucia Kings 131/7 (Fletcher 81*, Du Plessis 15; Williams 4/24, Joseph 1/23) by 27 runs
TRINBAGO Knight Riders (TKR) moved up to second in the 2021 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) table with a 27 run victory over the Saint Lucia Kings at Warner Park in St Kitts and Nevis on Tuesday.
The Kings won the toss and opted to field first and for the first half of the TKR innings they had full control of the game.
However, a late salvo from Kieron Pollard and Tim Seifert helped the Knight Riders to post a challenging total.
In reply, Andre Fletcher played a lone hand for the Kings but the team never got going as a disciplined TKR bowling attack kept a firm stranglehold on proceedings throughout.
TKR opened their innings with the familiar pair of Lendl Simmons and Sunil Narine and they put on a partnership of 23 from 18 balls before Wahab Riaz trapped Simmons plumb in front.
It took the introduction of Seifert for TKR innings to gain impetus after Tion Webster, Narine and Colin Munro had all fallen in consecutive overs.
Pollard and Seifert put on 78 runs from 44 balls to help post a competitive total.
Just like the TKR innings, the Kings struggled to find any momentum in the first half of their reply amidst some exceptional and parsimonious bowling from Narine and Akeal Hosein that left them needing an unlikely 82 runs in the last six overs.
Despite Fletcher’s unbeaten 81 from 55 balls, three wickets by the tournament’s top wicket taker Ravi Rampaul ensured no one was able to stick with him to chase down the TKR total. (cplt20.com)
