Patriots vs Knight Riders - 11.00 am St Kitts

10.4
Terrance Hinds to Rossouw, SIX, hammered. too short from Hinds - Rossouw picks the length early, swivels across and then hammers the pull over square leg for a maximu

10.5
Terrance Hinds to Rossouw, SIX back-to-back sixes for Rossouw, turning out to be an expensive over form Hinds - was the attempted slower short ball, but Rossouw has picked the length early, rocks back and thumps it over mid-wicket for another maximum

SNP 114/3 (11) CRR: 10.36 REQ: 13.11
St Kitts and Nevis Patriots need 118 runs in 54 balls

Rilee Rossouw 20(10)
Jason Holder 5(2)

Terrance Hinds
1-0-19-0

13.1
Terrance Hinds to Holder, FOUR, clubbed, handy boundary from Holder - back of a length and at the stumps, he swivels across and thumps it wide of mid-wicket, Munro sprints to his right, dives, but the ball was always dropping wide of him

13.2
Terrance Hinds to Holder, FOUR, back-to-back boundaries for Holder - the attempted slower ball from Hinds, but it sat up to be smacked, Holder brings his levers into play as he crunched it wide of Pollard at long-on

SNP 133/3 (14) CRR: 9.5 REQ: 16.5
St Kitts and Nevis Patriots need 99 runs in 36 balls

Rilee Rossouw26(19)
Jason Holder18(11)

Terrance Hinds
2-0-31-

14.1
Amir to Rossouw, wide, Amir attempts the wide yorker, but the ball has barely bounced on the pitch, called as a wide

14.1
Amir to Rossouw, SIX, to third man

14.3
Amir to Rossouw, SIX, to backward square leg, the partnership between Rossouw and Holder is now 51(27)

14.4
Amir to Rossouw, leg byes, 1 run, a big shout for LBW, but this was definitely missing the leg-stump, they've reviewed though, was the leg-stump yorker and a shuffling Rossouw was pinned on the pad. No inside edge and UltraEdge confirms the same, onto ball-tracking: It's umpire's call on hitting, clipping the leg-stump and the onfield call stays - TKR don't lose a review though

SNP 152/3 (15) CRR: 10.13 REQ: 16
St Kitts and Nevis Patriots need 80 runs in 30 balls

Jason Holder 22(13)
Rilee Rossouw 38(23)

Mohammad Amir
3-0-46-0

15.1
Usman Tariq to Rossouw, out Caught by Pollard!!Pollard, you beauty. He might have retired from practically every other crickket, but he's still a terror in the outfield - was dropped short and Rossouw rocked back on the flat-batted pull, struck it cleanly and over the bowler's head, was sailing away, but Pollard sprinted to his left at long-on, completed a fine two-handed running catch and ensures that he didn't step onto the ropes as he completed the motion.

Rossouw c Pollard b Usman Tariq 38(24) [4s-1 6s-4]

15.3
Usman Tariq to Jyd Goolie, out Bowled!! A 4th wicket for Tariq and he's off on the celebratory run, the Patriots falling away in the chase. Was tossed up on off, Goolie was playing for the angle as he looked to work it onto the on-side, but this one has once again straightened and goes on to clip the off-stump. Goolie looks bemused as he walks back to the pavilion.

Jyd Goolie b Usman Tariq 0(2)

15.5
Usman Tariq to Holder, SIX, to deep mid-wicket

16.6
Narine to Holder, SIX, hammered, flighted delivery on off, Holder clears his front leg, brings his long levers into play and hoicks it back over the bowler's head, sails into the sightscreen for a maximum

SNP 175/6 (17.1) CRR: 10.19 REQ: 20.12
St Kitts and Nevis Patriots need 57 runs in 17 balls

Jason Holder 41(17)
Dominic Drakes 2(3)

Sunil Narine
4-0-32-1

17.3
Terrance Hinds to Drakes, FOUR, to deep backward point

17.6
Terrance Hinds to Drakes, FOUR, to long-off

SNP 184/6 (1 CRR: 10.22 REQ: 24
St Kitts and Nevis Patriots need 48 runs in 12 balls

Dominic Drakes 11(
Jason Holder 42(1

Terrance Hinds
3-0-41-0

18.6
Amir to Holder, out Bowled!!

Holder b Amir 44(22) [4s-3 6s-3]

SNP 189/7 (19) CRR: 9.95 REQ: 43
St Kitts and Nevis Patriots need 43 runs in 6 balls

19.4
Munro to Naseem Shah, SIX, Naseem is having some fun here, length ball on off and he threw himself into the lofted drive, gets a lot of height and plenty of elevation as the ball drops over the ropes at long-off
19.3
Munro to Naseem Shah, FOUR, low full-toss and Naseem has smashed it over the bowler's head, one bounce and over the ropes - turning out to be a comical end to the game

19.6
Munro to Drakes, SIX, to deep backward point

TKR 231/5 (20)

SNP 219/7 (20)

Trinbago Knight Riders won by 12 runs

That was bloody close mates.

PLAYER OF THE MATCH
Colin Munro

In reply to granite

Dem TKR boys are rusty, and we had a goat-mouth prediction...

TKR normally plays awfully the first game ..

WE will get better.

2.49pm TKR start the season with a win, but in the end, it was only 12 runs that separated the sides tonight. That comes down to two good hits, and STKNP will look back and feel they could have started more quickly. Just 23 runs came off the first three overs, and by then, half the powerplay was done. Fletcher did well to counter from there, but eventually, STKNP were left with too much to do in the death overs. Munro's 120 set up the win for TKR, whose bowlers would want to tighten things up. But they will take the win tonight. Hang around for the presentations.