Two champion teams of Caribbean Premier League are set to meet each other in the match number 11 of 2017 CPLT20 championship today as 2015 CPL winners Trinbago Knight Riders to face 2014 winner Barbados Tridents. Both teams are heading into the match by winning their respective previous games.
Preview
Having lost just only match against Jamaica Tallawahs, Trinbago Knight Riders will look to register their 4th victory of the season against Barbados Tridents. TKR team looks decent but their top players are not in good form. In the last match, Brendon McCullum and Darren Bravo didn’t click which they would not want in the next matches.
Colin Munro played a terrific innings that helped the side to chase 156 runs target. So on this Queens Park Oval’s wicket, Knight Riders need to play well and bat fast to put pressure on strong batting line-up of Tridents. Sunil Narine and Sulieman Benn need to bowl for TKR in this match as it will be a tough challenge for them to bowl against some destructive batsmen.
Kieron Pollard, Kane Williamson, Shoaib Malik are the top players for Barbados Tridents in this match. Pollard’s presence on the wicket is enough for his side to keep calm as he can score at great pace against any bowling lineup. Nicholas Pooran will also be crucial in the lower middle order batting order. Wayne Parnell and Ravi Rampaul are the star bowlers in BT squad.
Squads
Trinbago Knight Riders
Dwayne Bravo (Captain), Hashim Amla, Kevon Cooper, Darren Bravo, Sunil Narine, Anderson Phillip, Nikita Miller, Shadab Khan, Ronsford Beaton, Hamza Tariq, Brendon McCullum, Colin Munro, William Perkins, Denesh Ramdin, Khary Pierre, Javon Searles, Mehedi Hasan.
Barbados Tridents
Kieron Pollard (Captain), Shoaib Malik, Christoper Barnwell, Nicolas Pooran, Wayne Parnell, Damian Jacobs, Wahab Riaz, Raymon Reifer, Kane Williamson, Imran Khan, Dwayne Smith, Akeal Hosein, Ryan Wiggins, Shamar Springer, Tino Best, Ravi Rampaul, Akeem Dolton.
Predictions
Barbados Tridents seems to be strong and better side than the Trinbago Knight Riders. In this 11th match of Caribbean Premier League 2017, Barbados Tridents will be favorite to win against Trinbago Knight Riders and they have got 60 percent winning chances as per twenty20 wiki’s prediction.
No I think tkr is stronger side..