debut: 2/16/17
36,925 runs
TKR coach Phil Simmons challenges Pooran to break CPL batting record
TRINBAGO Knight Riders (TKR) head coach Phil Simmons has challenged top order batsman Nicholas Pooran to surpass the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) T20 record for most runs in a season at the 2024 edition. Simmons made the call during TKR’s victorious post-match meeting on August 31 after thumping St Kitts and Nevis Patriots by 44 runs in their opening match at Warner Park in Basseterre, St Kitts. Pooran’s blitz with the bat, 97 runs from 43 balls, saw TKR post a mammoth 250/4 – the league’s third highest score – and then restrict the hosts to 206/8 en route to a resounding first match triumph.
His early dominance with the bat spurred Simmons on to challenge the left-hander to achieve a record-breaking 2024 season. New Zealander Colin Munro leads the most runs in a season category, courtesy his stellar 567 runs achieved for TKR in the 2018 edition. His stellar knock of 97 was made up of nine sixes and seven fours. When he struck his sixth six, Pooran became the batter to achieve the most T20 sixes in a calender year, after he surpassed Chris Gayle’s 135.
Pooran now leads the global standings with 139 T20 sixes in a calender year, and the tournament has just begun.Pooran’s most successful CPL season with the bat came in 2023, where he scored 291 runs in total.
TRINBAGO Knight Riders (TKR) head coach Phil Simmons has challenged top order batsman Nicholas Pooran to surpass the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) T20 record for most runs in a season at the 2024 edition. Simmons made the call during TKR’s victorious post-match meeting on August 31 after thumping St Kitts and Nevis Patriots by 44 runs in their opening match at Warner Park in Basseterre, St Kitts. Pooran’s blitz with the bat, 97 runs from 43 balls, saw TKR post a mammoth 250/4 – the league’s third highest score – and then restrict the hosts to 206/8 en route to a resounding first match triumph.
His early dominance with the bat spurred Simmons on to challenge the left-hander to achieve a record-breaking 2024 season. New Zealander Colin Munro leads the most runs in a season category, courtesy his stellar 567 runs achieved for TKR in the 2018 edition. His stellar knock of 97 was made up of nine sixes and seven fours. When he struck his sixth six, Pooran became the batter to achieve the most T20 sixes in a calender year, after he surpassed Chris Gayle’s 135.
Pooran now leads the global standings with 139 T20 sixes in a calender year, and the tournament has just begun.Pooran’s most successful CPL season with the bat came in 2023, where he scored 291 runs in total.
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