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Saturday, May 17, 2025

Tridents look to home support to drive title bid

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BRIDGETOWN–The Vi­jay Mallya-owned Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents are bank­ing on strong home sup­port and the "feel-good fac­tor" from West In­dies' T20 World Cup tri­umphs, to dri­ve their cam­paign in the up­com­ing Caribbean Pre­mier League.

The 2014 cham­pi­ons open their June 29 to Au­gust 7 cam­paign on Ju­ly 11 and host four match­es at the his­toric Kens­ing­ton Oval here. "Kens­ing­ton Oval is one of world crick­et's most icon­ic grounds. To be there with a vo­cal home sup­port be­hind you is an enor­mous thrill for the Tri­dents play­ers and we are ful­ly fo­cused on bring­ing suc­cess back to Bar­ba­dos this year," said Tri­dents chair­man, Sid Mallya, who is the son of Vi­jay Mallya.

"There is a re­al­ly pos­i­tive mood around West In­dies crick­et at the mo­ment, fol­low­ing the suc­cess of the West In­dies men, women and Un­der-19 teams over the past few months, and we are de­ter­mined to build on that feel-good fac­tor over the com­ing months."

Tri­dents, who an­nounced their fix­tures on Mon­day, will open against 2013 cham­pi­ons, Ja­maica Tallawahs, in a high oc­tane clash on Ju­ly 11 and fol­low up with a con­test against St Kitts and Nevis Pa­tri­ots two days lat­er. They will re­sume their ri­val­ry with Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers –for­mer­ly Trinidad Red Steel � on Ju­ly 16 in a mid­day en­counter be­fore clos­ing out their slate of games against St Lu­cia Zouks the fol­low­ing night.

Tri­dents will boast the likes of Twen­ty20 bat­ting su­per­star, South African AB de Vil­liers, along with fel­low Pro­teas Wayne Par­nell, Robin Pe­ter­son and David Wiese. Pak­istan's Shoaib Ma­lik re­turns yet again to con­tin­ue his re­la­tion­ship with Tri­dents while the West In­dies pair of Kieron Pol­lard and Ravi Ram­paul head the list of Caribbean play­ers. Sid Mallya said the up­com­ing edi­tion of the CPL was full of pos­si­bil­i­ties, es­pe­cial­ly with its ex­pan­sion in­to the Unit­ed States mar­ket.

"It is an ex­cit­ing year for all con­cerned and the chance to spread the game in­to main­land USA, with match­es for all the teams in Fort Laud­erdale in the last week­end in Ju­ly, is a huge­ly ex­cit­ing de­vel­op­ment both for CPL and the game of crick­et in gen­er­al," said Mallya. "Bar­ba­dos is a re­al strong­hold for crick­et in the Caribbean and the team will be fo­cused on putting on a show for our fans both at home and on the road." Mil­lion­aire In­di­an busi­ness­man Vi­jay Mallya bought the Tri­dents ear­li­er this year but has since found him­self bat­tling le­gal and fi­nan­cial prob­lems.

He has been ac­cused of run­ning up debts to In­di­an banks of near­ly US$2 bil­lion and au­thor­i­ties have sub­se­quent­ly is­sued a war­rant for his ar­rest while al­so re­vok­ing his pass­port. Mallya has since fled to the Unit­ed King­dom and In­dia's for­eign min­istry has writ­ten the gov­ern­ment there re­quest­ing his de­por­ta­tion.


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