CPL 2020: Trinbago Knight Riders, Barbados Tridents Start Campaign With Wins | Cricket News

Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) and Barbados Tridents registered wins of their opening suits of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) on Tuesday (native time). At the first day of CPL 2020, TKR defeated Guyana Amazon Warriors by way of 4 wickets whilst Barbados Tridents outclassed St Kitts and Nevis Patriots by way of six runs on the Brian Lara Cricket Stadium.

The fit between TKR and Guyana was once trimmed all the way down to 17 overs in keeping with facet as rain behind schedule the beginning of the hole fit of CPL 2020.

Batting first, Guyana controlled to sign in 144/five in 17 overs, owing to Shimron Hetmyer’s unbeaten knock of 63 runs. For TKR, Sunil Narine was once the select of bowlers as he completed with figures of two/19.

TKR controlled to chase down the full with two balls to spare as Sunil Narine performed a knock of 50 runs off simply 28 balls and because of this, the facet chased down the full with 4 wickets in hand. Narine was once named because the Participant of the Fit as smartly.

However, Barbados Tridents submit 153/nine of their allocated twenty overs in opposition to St Kitts and Nevis Patriots.

Skipper Jason Holder performed a knock of 38 runs and finally, Rashid Khan scored 26 runs to take Barbados’ ranking previous the 150-run mark.

For St Kitts and Nevis Patriots, Joshua Da Silva scored 41 runs, whilst Ben Dunk performed a knock of 34 runs, however this didn’t turn out sufficient because the facet fell six runs brief.

Mitchell Santner and Rashid Khan scalped two wickets every for Barbados.

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Transient Rankings: Trinbago Knight Riders 147/6 (Sunil Narine 50, Darren Dravo 30, Naveen-ul-Haq 2/21) defeat Guyana Amazon Warriors 144/five (Shimron Hetmyer 63*, Ross Taylor 33, Sunil Narine 2/19) by way of 4 wickets.

Transient Rankings: Barbados Tridents 153/nine (Jason Holder 38, Kyle Mayers 37, Rayad Emrit 2/16) defeat St Kitts and Nevis Patriots 147/five (Joshua Da Silva 41, Ben Dunk 34, Mitchell Santner 2/18) by way of six runs.