Liam Gor­don

T&T all rounder Kevon Coop­er, in a re­cent in­ter­view on his re­turn to T&T, spoke about his re­cent stint with Ra­jasthan Roy­als in the In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL). Coop­er re­turned to T&T last Thurs­day af­ter frac­tur­ing his knee while at­tempt­ing a full length catch dur­ing an In­di­an Pre­mier League match against Del­hi Dare­dev­ils on April 29. Coop­er ad­mit­ted that it was not a good feel­ing, af­ter on­ly play­ing six games for the IPL out­fit. "I chipped a bone in my knee and tore a lig­a­ment, I am out for six weeks, I re­al­ly miss play­ing in the IPL it's good to be back home but not un­der these con­di­tions," he said.

"Play­ing in the IPL is a big thing for me and its an ho­n­our to play with Rahul Dravid and Shaun Tait. The IPL was very good and hope­ful­ly I can be there next year," said Coop­er, when asked about his first IPL ex­pe­ri­ence. Coop­er, who took four wick­ets and made 14 runs not out, was con­fi­dent bout his per­for­mance and would make a re­turn for next year's sea­son. "I think I made a name for my self when I went out there (IPL). Not much peo­ple knew me and get­ting four wick­ets and 14 runs in the end, it was a dream come true. I cher­ish every mo­ment of it but its a dis­ap­point­ing way to end my IPL this way," he said.

The 23-year-old right-hand­ed bats­man al­so re­called the in­ci­dent, ad­mit­ting that it was an emo­tion­al time know­ing that his sea­son was over. He said: "I land­ed and I hit my knee try­ing to save a six. I ac­tu­al­ly cried. I re­al­ly en­joyed the IPL and I am look­ing for­ward to re­cov­er­ing." Coop­er in­di­cat­ed that his main fo­cus was to be back in time to rep­re­sent T&T in the up­com­ing cham­pi­ons league. "It's a dis­ap­point­ing end but good to be back home with friends and fam­i­ly" he said. "I'm see­ing a spe­cial­ist so I can be­gin my ther­a­py and work on it. Hope­ful­ly I can be back in four weeks if not six weeks. I'm look­ing for­ward to get­ting back on the field soon and my main goal is for the T&T team in the cham­pi­ons league com­ing up. Hope­ful­ly we can do bet­ter this time."