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Friday, June 27, 2025

Munro joins Knight Riders for battle with Royals

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Akeal Hosein, right, of Trinbago Knight Riders successful appeal for lbw against Roston Chase, centre, of Saint Lucia Kings during the Men’s Hero Caribbean Premier League match two at Warner Park Sporting Complex in Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis on August 31. Hosein took 4/13 to help TKR to a three-wicket victory.

Akeal Hosein, right, of Trinbago Knight Riders successful appeal for lbw against Roston Chase, centre, of Saint Lucia Kings during the Men’s Hero Caribbean Premier League match two at Warner Park Sporting Complex in Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis on August 31. Hosein took 4/13 to help TKR to a three-wicket victory.

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Pre-tour­na­ment favourite Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) will take on Bar­ba­dos Roy­als (BR) to open the St Lu­cia leg in the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) to­day.

The teams will meet at the Daren Sam­my Na­tion­al Crick­et Sta­di­um in Gros Islet, from 10 am, in match eight on the 10th an­niver­sary of the T20 com­pe­ti­tion.

The Knight Rid­ers will be re­in­forced by the ar­rival of Col­in Munro, from the Hun­dred, for the sec­ond leg of the CPL in St Lu­cia. He will be among the bat­ters to watch along with ex­plo­sive skip­per Kieron Pol­lard.

Among the bowlers will be Akeal Ho­sein, once healthy will be looked to, to make an im­pact against the Bar­ba­dos fran­chise as he did in TKR’s first win. He emerged “Play­er of the Match” for his bril­liant bound­ary-less bowl­ing spell which saw the Knight Rid­ers kick off their cam­paign with a vic­to­ry over last year’s fi­nal­ists, St Lu­cia Kings (SLK), by three wick­ets on Thurs­day.

TKR won the toss and chose to field, Ho­sein, tak­ing fre­quent wick­ets to re­strict Kings to 143/9, de­spite some big hit­ting from bat­ter Roshon Primus to­wards the end of the in­nings.

The Knight Rid­ers got off to a tough start them­selves, los­ing two ear­ly wick­ets be­fore a com­mand­ing in­nings from Tion Web­ster (58) helped to guide them to vic­to­ry with four balls to spare.  

Af­ter end­ing his shift with the ball, Ho­sein, though, suf­fered an in­jury scare when he dived to his right from mid-off and land­ed awk­ward­ly. Ho­sein im­me­di­ate­ly hob­bled off the field and sat out of Knight Rid­ers’ next game against St Kitts and Nevis Pa­tri­ots (SKNP), which due to rain, end­ed in a no re­sult with­out a ball be­ing bowled. Ac­cord­ing to team cap­tain Pol­lard, Ho­sein had twinged his leg and was rest­ed to re­cov­er.

The Knight Rid­ers sit in third place with three points af­ter the first leg of the CPL at Warn­er Park in Bas­seterre, St Kitts and Nevis last week in­to the week­end.

Mean­while, David Miller’s new-look Roy­als have made a dream start, notch­ing up two wins in as many match­es.

West In­dies open­er Kyle May­ers has been the star for Roy­als so far. In their first match of the sea­son, against Pa­tri­ots, he slammed 73 off 46 balls as Roy­als chased down 150 t win by sev­en wick­ets. Their South African im­port Corbin Bosch al­so con­tributed hand­some­ly to the open­ing vic­to­ry by tak­ing five catch­es - a CPL record.

Against St Lu­cia Kings, May­ers sparkled with both bat and ball. Af­ter hit­ting 36 off 23 balls that helped Roy­als to 162 for 7, he ripped through the op­po­si­tion’s top or­der with four wick­ets in two overs. May­ers, who had start­ed his ca­reer as a new-ball bowler be­fore an an­kle in­jury forced him to re­mod­el him­self in­to a bat­ting all­rounder, pro­duced the in­swing of old, york­ing Ros­ton Chase and John­son Charles. May­ers al­so got rid of Mark Deyal and Primus, en­sur­ing there would be no way back for Kings, de­spite Faf du Plessis’ un­beat­en 47 off 20 balls in a rain-hit game.

A win to­day by ei­ther TKR or Roy­als, will move them to the top of the six-team ta­ble ahead of the Ja­maica Tallawahs (JT), who have set the ear­ly pace in the CPL.

Rov­man Pow­ell’s Tallawahs have dashed out of the blocks, al­so notch­ing up two wins in as many games, for four points same as Roy­als but the Ja­maican fran­chise has a bet­ter net run rate (NRR) of 1.338 com­pared to Bar­ba­dos’ 1.197.

In the sea­son open­er, Bran­don King, who had pre­vi­ous­ly rep­re­sent­ed Guyana Ama­zon War­riors, marked his re­turn to his home fran­chise - Tallawahs - with a fiery 57-ball 89 that set up a 47-run vic­to­ry against the de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Pa­tri­ots. In Tallawahs’ sec­ond match, they beat Ama­zon War­riors by four wick­ets.

In to­day’s late match, the un­beat­en Tallawahs will take on the win­less Kings from 7 pm.

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