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Bravo’s move to promote himself up the batting order resulted in a first ball duck and he and younger brother Darren fell on either side of Munro’s dismissal, left TKR tottering. Hamsa Tariq, Daniel Christian and Searles all departed cheaply as well and the T&T franchise was well on its way to losing the match when the languid Cooper walked in to join Barrackpore’s Denesh Ramdin.

The two took their time going about their assessment of a precarious situation and then targeted the Australian Ben Hilfenhaus in the 18th over, scoring 22 runs to put the team on the victory path.

After the game, Patriots captain Chris Gayle lamented his team’s failure in their first-ever CPL final.

“We had a foot in at one stage but couldn’t get past the line. All I have to say is congrats to Bravo and Trinidad, they’ve been playing good cricket and they got the better of us in the final. It’s disappointing but one team has to lose and unfortunately that’s us,” he said.

Gayle, however, thanked his players for a tremendous season and hopes they can build on their showing for the future.