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CPL 2016 opener: Defending champs Trinbago Knight Riders ambience defeat
- Updated: June 30, 2016
Darren Bravo’s shining innings in vain as St Lucia Zouks kick Trinbago Knight Riders by 6 wickets with 5 balls to gangling in opening tie of Caribbean Premier League 2016 on Wednesday night.
A illusory innings of 62 from 44 balls from Darren Bravo was not adequate to secure feat for a Trinbago Knight Riders opposite a St Lucia Zouks in a opening tie of a 2016 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL).
Johnson Charles finished a fifty for a Zouks before a knowledge of Michael Hussey and David Miller saw their group home opposite a reigning Hero CPL champions.
Darren Sammy (left) and David Miller of St Lucia Zouks applaud after winning Match 1 of a Caribbean Premier League between Trinbago Knight Riders and St Lucia Zouks during a Queen’s Park Oval in Port of Spain, Trinidad on Wednesday night. Pic/CPL/Sportsfile
In wily bowling conditions with dew creation a round intensely soppy it was tough for a Zouks to find control with a round in a initial innings of a match, though they had finished a excellent pursuit during gripping a Knight Riders scoring in check until a final dual overs. It was from there that Darren Bravo launched his attack that on another day would have been compare winning.
At a start of a 19th over Darren Bravo was on 34 from 35 balls, it had been an innings of calm and it had hold a Knight Riders’ bid together, though it was distant from explosive. That altered in those final dual overs as he scored 29 runs from 9 deliveries, with Bravo attack 3 sixes in a final dual overs.
At a median indicate it seemed that a Knight Riders were favourites with a really decent measure on a board, though a Zouks found batting most easier right from a start. While Trinbago had struggled to find a approach to time a round good on this representation a St Lucian side did not have a same problem inside a batting PowerPlay. Shane Watson and Johnson Charles got a visitors off to a best probable start as they put on a partnership of 47 in 35 balls.
That mount was damaged by Dwayne Bravo with a slower round that Shane Watson chipped to mid-off around a heading edge. The Knight Riders would have hoped that a tumble of Watson’s wicket would move that behind into a match, though Charles had other ideas. He reached 52 and looked totally comfortable when he retreat swept Sunil Narine and he was brilliantly held by Brendon McCullum. The umpires could good have called a smoothness a no round though Narine was given a advantage of a doubt.
With a bowler like Narine in your ranks we will always feel that we are in a diversion and when he picked adult a wicket of Andre Fletcher in his subsequent over a Zouks position looked reduction assured. The tumble of Fletcher’s wicket brought together a hugely gifted span of Michael Hussey and David Miller with 59 runs still indispensable during only over 8 an over. They total to put on 43 of those before Darren Sammy finished a pursuit after Hussey was bowled by another Dwayne Bravo slower ball.
Miller seems to have re-found his form during accurately a right impulse for a Zouks and for a Hero CPL as they ran out winners by 6 wickets with 5 balls to spare.