Last Updated on September 14, 2022, 5:35 AM AST by Anthony Morris
CPL 2022: The Sixteenth Match of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL 2022) Tournament was played between Trinbago Knight Riders and the Barbados Royals. The two teams played the Match on the home ground of the Knight Riders, at The Queen’s Park Oval in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
However, playing in their home ground proved to be of little advantage as the game was again won by the Barbados Royals, who are yet to face defeat in the CPL 2022 tournament. In the 16th Match of the tournament, the Barbados Royals defeated the Knight Riders by eight wickets.
The royals won the toss and decided to field first. They fielded beautifully, restricting the knight riders to 132 runs at the end of 20 overs. Opening batsman Nicholas Pooran gave his team some semblance of reassurance in the form of his inning of 52 runs in 43 deliveries. He was the highest scorer in his team. Following his footsteps, Sunil Narine played a solid spell and put another 30 runs on the scoreboard.
The dedicated and disciplined bowling of the royals, who have yet to lose to a team in the CPL 2022, didn’t let anyone else from the Knight riders make the chase difficult for them. The Knight riders became the second team in the Caribbean Premier League Tournament to be bowled out.
When it came time for the Royals to respond to the target set by the knight riders in their home ground, The Barbados team was ready with their A-Game.
They managed to achieve (and sarpass) the target set by the Knight riders in 16 overs. At the end of the game, the Barbados royals had 136 runs on the scoreboard, owing to a boundary smashed in the game’s final ball.
The Royals still had 24 runs on the scoreboard when they finished the Match. Kyle Mayers was the highest scorer from the team of the royals having scored 79 runs off of 36 deliveries. His time at the field saw 15 boundries, (10 Fours and 5 Sixes
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