Sunil Narine paid the price for his team’s slow over-rate in a Caribbean Premier League (CPL) T20 encounter on Sunday, becoming Trinbago Knight Riders the first cricket team to be given a red card in the sport’s history.
Sunil Narine paid the price for his team’s slow over-rate in a Caribbean Premier League (CPL) T20 encounter on Sunday, becoming Trinbago Knight Riders the first cricket team to be given a red card in the sport’s history.
The penalty entails a team losing a captain’s choice player and requiring them to have six fielders inside the circle.
In the final over of their game against the St. Kitts & Nevis Patriots, the Knight Riders were down to 10 players, yet they still won by six wickets, earning their first win in three games.
Before being removed for the Patriots’ innings’ last over, which produced 18 runs, Narine had finished his four allotted overs with statistics of 24/3.
At Warner Park in Basseterre, Nicholas Pooran’s 61 off 32 balls provided the Knight Riders with the platform for a successful chase before captain Kieron Pollard (37) and Andre Russell (23) brought them home with 17 balls left.
Pollard disapproved of the overs-rate fine.
It will undo the hard work that everyone has put in, he admitted. “We are treated like pawns and will do as instructed.
“We’ll play as quickly as we can. It is absurd to be fined for 30 to 45 seconds in a competition like this.
