The Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) delivered a dominant performance to the Saint Lucia Kings (SLK) by 56 runs in qualifying 2 of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) 2025 In Providence Stadium. With this victory, the four times champion TKR went on to the CPL final again.
Nicholas Pooran and Alex Hales push TKR to 194
After winning the Worp, Saint Lucia Kings chose to bowl and TKR handed over the benefit of setting a challenging objective. The top and middle order of the knights that are fired at the same time:
- Alex Hales led the attack with unbeaten 58 out of 44 balls, including 4 towering sixes.
- Nicholas Pooran supported him with a Quickfire 50 of 32 balls, with 4 sixes and 5 four.
- Kieron Pollard contributed 35 of 26 balls, and Andre Russell hit 28 only 12 deliveries and accelerated the innings of TKR in the Death Overs.
Only Colin Munro did not succeed in making a stamp and scored 6 runs of 6 balls.
For the kings, Khary Pierre, Roston Chase and Alzarri Joseph shared the wickets, but the bowlers struggled to contain the aggressive TKR -Line -Up.
Saint Lucia Kings are struggling in response to TKR MammoetTotaal
The kings chased 195 and started strong by Tim Seifert, who scored a brilliant 57 of 40 balls and hit 8 four. Tim David added 28 of the 19 balls, but the rest of the Batting Line -up could not build partnerships. The defensive champions were finally limited for 138/8 in the established overs.
The bowlers of the knights were ruthless:
- Sunil Narine took 3 crucial wickets for only 18 points in his 4 overs.
- Usman Tariq claimed 4 Wickets, strangled the middle order and effectively ended the hope of kings.
- Kieron Pollard broke in with 1 wicket for 4 points.
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Player of the game
The aggressive 50 of 32 balls from Nicholas Pooran proved decisive to give TKR the lead. His ability to dominate the bowlers of the kings during the middle overs set the platform for a large total.
“It is really important to come together in a tournament like this. It has been a bit challenging for us in the past two seasons. But everyone has come together this time and congratulations to everyone, I am proud of the boys,” “ said Pooran after receiving his player from the Match Award.
“Our spinners have been brilliant, Usman has been brilliant during the tournament and we are happy to have him. Narine has also been great and I am lucky to have him,” ” The knight skipper added.
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