Caribbean Premier League, Trinbago vs Tridents: In the 19th match of the Caribbean Premier League 2026, Trinbago Knight Riders, in a one-sided performance, defeated Barbados Tridents by 7 wickets. In this match played at Queen’s Park Oval, Port of Spain, the biggest hero of TKR’s victory was star all-rounder Sunil Narine, who first broke the back of the opposing team with his very economical bowling and then played an explosive inning of 55 runs in just 33 balls with the bat.
Wreaked havoc in first bowling
Trinbago Knight Riders, who won the toss and chose to bowl first, restricted Barbados Tridents to just 127 runs in 20 overs. During this, Sunil Narine did not give any chance to the batsmen to score runs in the powerplay and middle overs. He spent only 1 run in his first 2 overs. Narine took 2 important wickets by giving 14 runs in his 4 over spell. On the other hand, for Barbados, Zackary Carter scored 28 runs and captain Chris Green scored 27 runs, but the rest of the batsmen could not do anything special.
Created chaos with the bat, hit 6 sixes
Sunil Narine gave a flying start to Trinbago Knight Riders while chasing the easy target of 128 runs. Narine hit more sixes than fours around the ground. He hit 6 sixes and only 1 four in his innings of 55 runs. During this, he completed his half-century in just 28 balls and scored 55 runs playing a total of 33 balls. At the same time, Colin Munro also played a useful inning of 37 runs, on the basis of which Trinbago Knight Riders easily achieved the target by losing only 3 wickets.
This is only the second win of Trinbago Knight Riders in 5 matches this season. The special thing is that Sunil Narine has been the hero of both these victories. He has been selected player of the match both times. In these 5 matches, he has scored 118 runs at a strike rate of 168.57 and has also taken 6 wickets. During this period his economy rate has been only 4.80.