A high scoring run fest at Warner Park saw Trinbago Knight Riders defeat St Kitts & Nevis Patriots by 44 runs in the third match of Caribbean Premier League (CPL). Patriots captain Andre Fletcher won the toss and inserted the Knight Riders on what turned out to be a good batting wicket. Sunil Narine hit three fours and four sixes to get the Knight Riders off to a rapid start and they never looked back.
The boundary was peppered and cleared all evening, Nicholas Pooran scooping the Player of the Match award for a thrilling innings of 97 off 43 balls that fully deserved a century. Keacy Carty piled on the pain for the Patriots by striking 73 off just 35 balls in a visceral display of stroke making, the pair of batters leaving the opposition bewildered in the face of boundaries struck all-round the relatively short sided ground in Basseterre.
Fittingly, Carty hit the final ball of the innings for six to see the Knight Riders post a mammoth score of 250/4. The Patriots cleared the two hundred run mark themselves in posting 206/8 in what turned out to be the highest scoring match in CPL history between the sides but in truth Andre Fletcher’s side never truly looked like they were going to haul in the target.
