The Trinbago Knight Riders kept them Caribbean Premier League Campaign Living with a nine Wicket victory in the Antigua & Barbuda Falcons in the Eliminator competition.
The Falcons had a brilliant partnership of 108 between Andries Gous and Amir Jangoo, but a late flurry of Wickets saw the Knight Riders keep them a total that they could chase. The stars for the Trinidadian franchise were Nicholas Pooran and Alex Hales, who both made fifty when the Knight Riders won with relative ease.
In the Falconsinings, Jangoo and Gous both fell within the space of two balls shortly after passing their fifties. Both batters fell on the bowling of Usman Tariq who was again vulture with his bowling and claimed 2/19 of his four overs. The Falcons went with four overs from 129/1 to go to 161/8 at the end of their innings when Saurabh Netravraverkar and Andre Russell Wickets took on at death.
The Falcons would have been disappointed not to post a greater target given the platform they had set. When Colin Munro, the Knight Riders scorer who went in this game, fell early on the bowling of Rahkeem Cornwall, there was hope that they could claim the victory. But from the point of the Munro wicket to the end of the game it was the Hales and Pooran show when the two light work made the total of the Falcons.
No Falcons Bowler found a way to keep the score under control against the halfway through the chase of the chase that the comparison had landed for slightly more than a run a ball that was needed. With the pressure of the big game, Hales and Pooran fade the chase brilliant to keep their dreams of a first CPL title since 2020 alive.
Pooran finished at 90 and Hales at 54 with both batters not at the end of the innings in an unbroken second wicket partnership worth 143. These two players who show this kind of shape because the knockout stages are starting, is a real boost for the knights that came into the back of three consecive losses.
This loss means that the Falcons go home that have made the knockout phases for the first time in their history. The Knight Riders will now be confronted with the loser of the qualifying match 1 between Guyana Amazon Warriors and Saint Lucia Kings who takes place in the Guyana National Stadium in Providence on Wednesday evening.
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