The flavor of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2020) will be clearly visible in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL 2020) finals on Thursday. Both teams that have entered the CPL 2020 final are owned by the IPL team owners.
The CPL 2020 finals will be contested between Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) and St. Lucia Zouks. Both computers have IPL connection.
TKR is owned by the owners of Kolkata Knight Riders, Sharukh Khan, and his consortium. While Zouks is owned by KingsXI Punjab team owners, Mohit Burman and others.
Call it your IPL team management experience or something else, but both teams will now compete in the 2020 CPL finals.
Watch Trinbago Knight Riders vs St. Lucia Zouks in the 2020 CPL Finals on Star Sports and Disney + Hotstar at 7.30pm IST Thursday
CPL 2020 Semifinals 2: St. Lucia Zouks defeats the Guyana Amazon Warriors by a record win
An inspired St Lucia Zouks beat the perennial finalists Guyana Amazon Warriors for the second-lowest team total in Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) history and clinched victory in just 27 balls to complete one of the most dominant performances in the league. history of T20. In doing so, they booked their spot against the Trinbago Knight Riders in Thursday’s final, the first in the history of the St. Lucia franchise.
The Zouks captain, Daren Sammy, put up the Amazon Warriors, but even he couldn’t have seen it coming. Zouks stunned the Warriors with a brilliant bowling attack and finished his innings with just 55 runs.
The goal was achieved in just 27 balls when they entered their first final.
St Lucia Zouks 56/0 (Cornwall 32 *, Deyal 19 *) beat the Guyana Amazon Warriors 55 with everything (Hemraj 25; Deyal 2/2, Zahir 2/12, Kuggeleijn 2/12, Chase 2/15, Nabi 1 / 6, Glenn 1/8) for 10 windows
2020 CPL Semifinals 1: Trinbago Knight Riders’ winning streak continues, just 1 away from a perfect season
Trinbago Knight Riders spinners tore a hole in Jamaica Tallawahs’ higher order to set up a cruise to a total below par with a total of five overs to finish, and come within one win of completing the perfect first season on Hero Caribbean. Premier League (CPL) history.
Knight Riders captain Kieron Pollard used his bowling pins and positioned his fielders perfectly to restrain the Tallawahs below par 107-7.
On a winning streak of 8 wins, this score was never enough for TKR and as expected they managed a minimum of fuss to record 9 wicket wins and only 1 victory of a perfect season.
Simmons now only needs three more runs in Thursday’s final to surpass Gayle as the all-time Hero CPL scorer. More importantly, though, the Knight Riders have a chance to do what last year’s Guyana Amazon Warriors couldn’t, and in doing so win a fourth Hero CPL title.
Trinbago Knight Riders 111/1 (Simmons 54 *, Webster 44 *; Mujeeb 1/18) defeated Jamaica Tallawahs 107/7 (Bonner 41, Powell 33; Hosein 3/14, Pierre 2/29, Narine 1/13, Fawad 1/29) for 9 windows
Watch Trinbago Knight Riders vs St. Lucia Zouks in the 2020 CPL Finals on Star Sports and Disney + Hotstar at 7.30pm IST Thursday
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