Knight Riders 104 for 1 (Bhatia 57*, Dottin 22*; Mlaba 1-34) beat Empress 100 for 8 (Williams 40, Ramharack 3-11, Harris 2-10) by 9 wickets
The Trinbago Knight Riders earned their second win in as many games, galloping to a 9-wicket victory over the Jamaica Empress in the Women’s Caribbean Premier League at the Kensington Oval on Thursday.
The Knight Riders’ run-chase was expertly orchestrated by Yastika Bhatia’s unbeaten 57 (34 balls) after Karishma Ramharack’s 3 for 11 dismantled Jamaica.
TKR needed only 11.1 overs to overhaul their target at 104 for the loss of Laura Harris, who was stumped after being beaten by a sharply turning delivery from Nonkululeko Mlaba.
By the time Harris departed at 35 for 1 at the end of the fifth over, TKR were already well on their way to a second consecutive victory. Captain Deandra Dottin then joined Bhatia at the crease, smashing 22 from 15 deliveries, in a second-wicket partnership of 69 to seal the win.
The Guyana Amazon Warriors returned to the top of the Caribbean Premier League points standings with a hard-fought four-wicket victory over the St. Lucia Kings at the Providence Stadium on Wednesday.
The defeat brought the Kings’ preliminary-round campaign to a close, having gained eight points to leave them in fourth place. They now await other results to determine their playoff fate.
The Kings were dismantled by a brilliant spell from Warriors captain Imran Tahir, who claimed 5 for 17, while Mehidy Hasan Miraz made an immediate impact on his CPL debut for the Warriors with figures of 3 for 13.
Kamil Pooran had provided early impetus for the Kings’ positive start. Dwaine Pretorius made the breakthrough for the Warriors, trapping Tim Seifert (4) lbw, as the Kings ended the first phase on 51 for 1.
Cricket West Indies (CWI) has confirmed the appointment of New Zealander Bob Carter as Batting Consultant. CWI says Carter’s work will range from personlaized coaching with players across the men’s, women’s and age-group programmes to aiding regional coaches.
In a press release on Wednesday, the organisation revealed that the former White Ferns Head Coach will “collaborate with CWI’s High-Performance team to develop batting modules” for coaches “at every level” across the region. The 66-year-old served with New Zealand Cricket as a High-Performance coach from 2012 to 2025.
Director of Cricket Miles Bascombe says the hire is about the long-term future of batting coaches in the Caribbean.
“The measure of this appointment is not what our top six look like in twelve months.” Bascombe began. “It is whether the coaches he works with come out of it better at teaching batting than they went in, and whether that reaches the coaching education modules the rest of the region is taught from. That is what lasts.”
Falcons 182 for 5 (Hasan Nawaz 36, Shadab 30*; Tahir 1-21) beat Amazon Warriors 117 all out (Dindyal 25, Nabi 23; Alzarri Joseph 4-41) by 65 runs
The Antigua & Barbuda Falcons ended the Guyana Amazon Warriors’ six-game win streak in this season’s Caribbean Premier League with a comfortable 65-run win at Providence Stadium on Tuesday.
Led by pacer Alzarri Joseph and a phenomenal all-round performance from Shadab Khan, the Falcons soared to an impressive victory, which landed them atop the points standings, having now completed all their league matches.
The Falcons had a rather tame start to their innings, finishing the powerplay 44 for 1 on the back of a 31-run (22 balls) opening stand between Karima Gore and Evin Lewis.
Khary Pierre got the breakthrough, dismissing Gore for 23 before Lewis fell victim to Imran Tahir for 22. What followed for the Falcons was even more modest.
The Caribbean Premier League has named its Hall of Fame trophy the Sir Garry Sobers Award, in honour of the man widely regarded as one of the greatest cricketers of all time. CPL has now secured the Sobers family's support in the move.
The Sir Garry Sobers Award will be presented for the first time at the CPL Hall of Fame Gala Dinner on September 15 to Dwayne Bravo and Ian Bishop, the first inductees.
The CPL Hall of Fame will recognise two inductees annually, one player and one off-field contributor.
“We are enormously grateful to the Sobers family for trusting us with his name and his legacy," said CPL CEO Pete Russell.
"It gives this trophy and this Hall of Fame a weight our players will carry with real pride," he added.
