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A fort­night ago in my col­umn, “Ex­cit­ing and un­pre­dictable CPL”, I warned every­one about the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents (BT) and the type of in­con­sis­tent sea­son they were hav­ing. By get­ting in­to the play­offs, we should see the best of them as they can spring a ma­jor sur­prise and sim­ply can­not be un­der­es­ti­mat­ed.

They not on­ly sprung a ma­jor sur­prise but de­feat­ed both the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) and the pre­vi­ous­ly in­fal­li­ble Guyana Ama­zon War­riors (GAW) to waltz away with this year's Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) ti­tle in style.

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Ja­son Hold­er and his team. I sup­pose Hold­er had some­thing to prove as he had lost the West In­dies 50-over cap­tain­cy and want­ed to prove that he is still a good leader and has what it takes to win a ti­tle.

Hav­ing seen the games and look­ing at the play­ers who played and made a se­ri­ous im­pact on their team, the fol­low­ing is Mur­ray’s Su­per Star CPL Team: Lendl Sim­mons (Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers), Bran­don King (Guyana Ama­zon War­riors), John­son Charles (Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents), Glenn Phillips (wk) (Ja­maica Tallawahs), Shoaib Ma­lik (capt) (Guyana Ama­zon War­riors), Kieron Pol­lard (Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers), Ray­mon Reifer (Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents), Chris Green (Guyana Ama­zon War­riors), Hay­den Walsh Jr. (Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents), Im­ran Tahir (Guyana Ama­zon War­riors), Har­ry Gur­ney (Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents), Ja­son Hold­er (12th) (Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents), Keemo Paul (13th) (Guyana Ama­zon War­riors), Phil Sim­mons - Coach - (Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents).