The Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL), in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Min­istry of Sport and Youth Af­fairs in Trinidad and To­ba­go, will give a mas­sive boost to re­gion­al women’s crick­et when they host two play­off match­es in Trinidad to­wards the back end of the tour­na­ment.

This af­ter the 21-year-old left-arm medi­um-pac­er bowled the St Kitts Nevis Pa­tri­ots in­to the Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League play­offs af­ter a nail-bit­ing one-run win over the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents at the Kens­ing­ton Oval in Bar­ba­dos on Sat­ur­day night.

Open­er Rakheem Corn­wall fi­nal­ly came good again with a blis­ter­ing half-cen­tu­ry as the St Lu­cia Zouks of­fi­cial­ly knocked the Ja­maica Tallawahs out of this year’s Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League play­offs with a four-wick­et win at the Daren Sam­my Sta­di­um in Gros Islet, St Lu­cia, on Fri­day night.

South African all-rounder JP Du­miny blast­ed a fastest-ever Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League half-cen­tu­ry, while young spin­ner Hay­den Walsh Jr bagged a ca­reer-best T20 haul to steer the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents to a 63-run win over the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers at the Kens­ing­ton Oval in Bar­ba­dos last night.

Open­er Bran­don King blast­ed a bel­liger­ent half-cen­tu­ry as the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors once again stamped their class with an eight-wick­et win over the St Lu­cia Zouks in their lat­est Caribbean Pre­mier League out­ing on Wednes­day night.

The Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) the pre-tour­na­ment favourites at the 2019 Hero CPL has been with­out a win in their last two match­es will get an op­por­tu­ni­ty to turn things around and add to their pre­vi­ous four vic­to­ries to date.

Guyana Ama­zon War­riors man­ag­er Omar Khan says his team will have no fear when they face de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) in their forth­com­ing Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League matchup.

Medi­um-pac­er Hardus Viljoen bagged ca­reer-best Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League fig­ures of three wick­ets for 14 runs to guide the St Lu­cia Zouks to a cru­cial 20-run win over the St Kitts Nevis Pa­tri­ots at the Daren Sam­my Sta­di­um in Gros Islet, St Lu­cia, on Tues­day night.

Eng­land fast bowler Chris Jor­dan has joined Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League fran­chise Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers as a re­place­ment for Pak­istani Muham­mad Has­nain, who was re­called to Pak­istan a week ago.

If the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents do not get in­to this year’s Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League play­offs they will have an im­plo­sion of epic pro­por­tions on Mon­day night at the Kens­ing­ton Oval to blame for it.

The gov­ern­ment of St Kitts/Nevis has in­vest­ed heav­i­ly in sports tourism and has used crick­et, and the cur­rent Caribbean Pre­mier League tour­na­ment in par­tic­u­lar, as a ma­jor tool to at­tract vis­i­tors to the is­land.

As they set­tled on a char­tered flight on Sunday morn­ing at the George F Charles Air­port in St Lu­cia, the mood was som­bre as the mem­bers of the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) were very con­cerned about the sit­u­a­tion in­volv­ing the Trop­i­cal Storm Karen hit­ting Trinidad and To­ba­go.