‘Kitna bura hua Royals k saath’ – Fans react as Trinbago Knight Riders thrash Barbados Royals by 133 runs in CPL 2023

In the first game of the Barbados leg of the ongoing CPL 2023, former champions, Trinbago Knight Riders and Barbados Royals locked horns. Both teams were coming off a win and the Royals were looking to dominate their home leg. Meanwhile, the two-time winners, the Royals won the toss and elected to bowl first. TKR had a good start as Mark Deyal and Martin Guptill put together 42 runs in 5.2 overs.

The former was removed by Jason Holder. In form, Nicholas Pooran (6) couldn’t carry his form and was caught and bowled by Qais Ahmad. At 69/2, the likes of skipper Keiron Pollard and Martin Guptill put together 108 runs for the third wicket. During the partnership, both players counter-attacked while the New Zealand international notched his maiden CPL Hundred. On the other hand, the Knight Riders skipper amassed 46 runs.

Both players helped the team reach 194/5 with Guptill carrying his bat. Apart from Kyle Mayers’ two overs, the Pink Brigade had a poor day with the ball.

Trinbago Knight Riders takes out Barbados Royals’ funeral

In reply, the two-time winners had a poor start as Andre Russell took out Rahkeem Cornwall on the first ball. With this, the former completed his 400 T20 wickets. In the same over, Mayers was trapped lbw. Russell made things worse as he took the wicket of Alick Athanaze in his second over.

Things kept getting worse for the Barbados as they kept losing wickets. After Sunil Narine trapped Laurie Evans for lbw, debutant, Waqar Salamkheil took four wickets. For the unversed, he played one Test for Afghanistan and has been part of MI Cape Town, MI New York, Peshawar Zalmi, and Jaffna Kings. Meanwhile, in the end, the Royals were bowled out for 61 runs, losing the game by 133 runs.

This is how Twitter reacted

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