Kieron Pollard smashed seven sixes in eight balls to help the Trinbago Knight Riders beat the St Kitts and Nevis Patriots in a CPL 2025 match at Tarouba.
The Patriots bowlers did well in the first half of the Trinbago innings after Jason Holder won the toss and elected to field at the Brian Lara Stadium. By the time Trinbago lost their third wicket, they had managed only 78, and it was the 11th over of the innings.
Kieron Pollard smashes 21-ball fifty
Pollard strode out in his famous sunhat to join captain Nicholas Pooran at this point. He lofted the second ball he faced, off leg-spinner Navin Bidaisee, for a six over long-on, but Trinbago did not find another boundary until the end of the 14th over. At that point, they were 99-3.
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Pooran took a single off the first ball of the 15th over. Bidaisee’s next ball was a leg-break outside the off-stump. Pollard did not middle it: there could have been a single, but he turned it down.
The next two balls soared into the stands, over square-leg and long-off. Bidaisee responded with a quicker ball that beat Pollard’s bat and hit him on the pad. When Bidaisee attempted an encore, Pollard was ready: he dispatched it over long leg for six.
Pooran decided to hand over the strike when left-arm wrist-spinner Waqar Salamkheil began the next over. Four balls remained when Pollard got the strike: each of these disappeared for a six – two over each of long-off and long-on. The last shot also took Pollard to 54, off only 21 balls – after he had scored 12 off his first 13 balls.
By the time Holder (2-25) had Pollard caught at long-off, the latter had smashed 65 in 29 balls with two fours and eight sixes. Pooran fell for a 38-ball 52 with four fours and three sixes to take Trinbago to 179-6.
Pollard’s innings was the second-shortest in CPL history to include eight sixes, after his own 28-ball 72 (two fours) for Trinbago against the Barbados Tridents (now Royals) at Port of Spain in 2020.
Evin Lewis (42 in 25 balls, one four, four sixes) and Andre Fletcher (67 in 54, six fours, two sixes) helped the Patriots add 96 for the opening stand in a mere 64 balls, but the middle order caved in against Mohammad Amir (2-29) and Nathan Edward (3-30), and they could only make 167-6.
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