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Friday, July 4, 2025

Knight Riders to meet with PM

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Bridgetown, Bar­ba­dos

Of­fi­cials of the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers will meet with Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to­day to dis­cuss the up­com­ing Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) T20 tour­na­ment.CEO of Red Chill­ies En­ter­tain­ment, the own­ers of the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers, Venky Mysore told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day that he will be meet­ing with the Prime Min­is­ter and Min­is­ter of Sport Daryl Smith.

Mysore said: "What we want to do at the Knight Rid­ers is to build a clos­er re­la­tion­ship with the Gov­ern­ment and this meet­ing is crit­i­cal. Last year, when I came to the Caribbean, I told every­one that I am like a sponge and just soak­ing up every­thing. Now that I have been around for a while and un­der­stand the en­vi­ron­ment in which you op­er­ate in the Caribbean, it is a good time to meet the prime min­is­ter to dis­cuss a pos­i­tive way for­ward.

"Back in Kolkata we have a very close re­la­tion­ship with the gov­ern­ment be­cause they un­der­stand that the Knight Rid­ers man­age­ment is bring­ing a win-win sit­u­a­tion to them all the time,"

He added: "We want to in­tro­duce to the Prime Min­is­ter to the end­less op­por­tu­ni­ties that the re­la­tion­ship with us brings. Trinidad and To­ba­go can tap in­to a base of 1.4 bil­lion peo­ple back in In­dia. The Knight Rid­ers have a huge fol­low­ing back in In­dia and of course own­er Shah Rukh Khan has world­wide ap­peal and it presents a great op­por­tu­ni­ty for the peo­ple of T&T.

"We will dis­cuss this among oth­er things with the Prime Min­is­ter. You see In­dia has a strong grow­ing mid­dle class that likes to and can af­ford to go to ex­ot­ic places and T&T presents that for them."

Red Chill­ies, who are al­so the own­ers of the Kolkata Knight Rid­ers bought the T&T Red Steel last year and has changed the name to Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers.

To­day, at 2 pm at the Hy­att Re­gency in Trinidad, Mysore and oth­er of­fi­cials of CPL will host a press con­fer­ence to of­fi­cial­ly un­veil the lo­go. The lo­go looks sim­i­lar to the Kolkata Knight Rid­ers with the pur­ple and gold colours, how­ev­er Mysore says the cloth­ing will re­main in the na­tion­al colours.

He said: "We are look­ing to con­tin­ue to build our al­ready strong Knight Rid­ers brand and for us the lo­go is crit­i­cal. The red, white and black cloth­ing will re­main be­cause when I showed up at the Queen's Park Oval for the fi­nals last year and saw a sea of red, it told me that the peo­ple of the coun­try loved their colours and it is red."


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