TKR beat Kings at Warner Park to move up to second place

(CPLT20) TRINBAGO Knight Riders moved up to second in the 2021
Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) table with a 38-run victory over the Saint
Lucia Kings on Tuesday.
The Kings won the toss and opted to field first and for the first half of the TKR
innings, they had full control of the game. However, a late salvo from Kieron
Pollard and Tim Seifert helped the Knight Riders to post a challenging total.
(Scores) :Trinbago Knight Riders 158/7 (Pollard 41, Seifert 37; Rampaul 3/34,
Udana 2/32) beat Saint Lucia Kings 131/7 (Fletcher 81*, Du Plessis 15; Williams
4/24, Joseph 1/23) by 27 runs
In reply, Andre Fletcher played a fine lone hand for the Kings but the team never
got going as a disciplined Trinbago bowling attack kept a firm stranglehold on
proceedings throughout.
The Knight Riders opened their innings with the familiar pair of Lendl Simmons
and Sunil Narine and they put on a partnership of 23 from 18 balls before Wahab
Riaz trapped the former plumb in front.
It took the introduction of Tim Seifert for the Knight Riders innings to gain
impetus after Tion Webster, Narine and Colin Munro had all fallen in consecutive
overs.
Along with Kieron Pollard, the pair put on 78 runs from 44 balls to help post a
competitive total.
Just like the TKR innings, the Kings struggled to find any momentum in the first
half of their reply amidst some exceptional and parsimonious bowling from Sunil
Narine and Akeal Hosein that left them needing an unlikely 82 runs from 36 balls.

Despite Andre Fletcher’s unbeaten 81 from 55 balls, three wickets by the
tournament’s top wicket-taker Ravi Rampaul ensured no one was able to stick
with him to chase down the TKR total.