Knight Riders keep qualification hopes alive with win over Tridents

(Kaieteur News) – An innings of 59 from Nicholas Pooran and four wickets from Sunil Narine was enough to keep the Trinbago Knight Riders slim qualification hopes alive with a 35 run victory over the Barbados Tridents in the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL).

Pooran was 1 off 10 balls and 9 from 14 before a trio of sixes off the bowling of Mujeeb ur Rahmann got his innings going. That acceleration saw him reach his fifty from just 35 balls as he batted brilliantly against a Tridents attack that struggled to contain him.

In reply the Tridents could not get on top of the hugely experienced Knight Riders spin bowlers who wrought havoc in the opening exchanges of the chase. Narine claimed three wickets inside the PowerPlay with him dismissing both Quinton de Kock and Rivaldo Clarke for ducks.