Trinbago Knight Riders

Trinbago Knight Riders
Captain: Trinidad and Tobago Dwayne Bravo
Coach: Australia Simon Helmot
City: Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Colours: Trinidad and Tobago
Owner: Shah Rukh Khan (Red Chillies Entertainment)
Juhi Chawla, Jay Mehta (Mehta Group)
Founded: 2013
Home ground: Queen's Park Oval
Capacity: 20,000
Chief executive: Venky Mysore
CPL wins: 1 (2015)

The Trinbago Knight Riders (formerly the Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel) is a franchise cricket team of the Caribbean Premier League based in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The Red Steel was one of the original six teams created for the tournament's inaugural 2013 season. Their home ground is Queen's Park Oval.

In 2015, Red Chillies Entertainment, the parent company of Indian Premier League team Kolkata Knight Riders, purchased stake in the Red Steel.[1] The Red Steel went on to win the 2015 tournament.[2] After the season, the name was changed to Trinbago Knight Riders.

History

The Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel were one of the six teams created for the Caribbean Premier League's inaugural 2013 season. In 2015, they won the tournament for the first time, defeating the Barbados Tridents 178–158 at Queen's Park Oval.[2]

Also in 2015, Red Chillies Entertainment, led by Bollywood actors Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi Chawla and their families, purchased stake in the Red Steel. Red Chillies Entertainment also owns the Indian Premier League's Kolkata Knight Riders; this was the first time an IPL team has invested in a Twenty20 cricket league outside India.[1] In 2016, Red Chillies Entertainment took over the team's operations and changed the name to the Knight Riders. The core team will remain the same in 2016, with Dwayne Bravo at the helm. However, the team's marquee foreign player will be New Zealand's Brendon McCullum, who has played for KKR in the past. Colin Munro and Sunil Narine currently play for both the Knight Riders teams.[3]

"Forty percent of the population in Trinidad and Tobago is of Indian origin. There is a very strong connect of those people to Bollywood. They are all extremely big fans of Shah Rukh Khan. And Trinidad is among the most advanced economies in the Caribbean."[4]

—Venky Mysore, Chief executive of Red Chillies Entertainment on investing in CPL

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Squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No. Name[5] Nat Birth date Batting style Bowling style Notes
Batsmen
42 Brendon McCullum New Zealand 27 September 1981 Right Right-arm medium-fast Marquee Player
1 Hashim Amla South Africa 31 March 1983 Right Righ-arm medium-fast International
- Ramnaresh Sarwan Guyana 23 June 1980 Right Right-arm Leg Break Local franchise player
- Umar Akmal Pakistan 26 May 1990 Right Right-arm off spin International franchise player
46 Darren Bravo Trinidad and Tobago 6 February 1989 Left Right-arm medium-fast Local franchise player/ TEMPORARY UNTIL JULY 11TH
All-rounders
47 Dwayne Bravo Trinidad and Tobago 7 October 1983 Right Right-arm medium-fast Local franchise player/Captain
- Colin Munro New Zealand 11 April 1987 Left Righ-arm medium-fast International franchise player
20 Kevon Cooper Trinidad and Tobago 2 February 1989 Right Right-arm medium Local franchise player
— Anton Devcich New Zealand 28 August 1985 left Left-arm Slow International franchise player
- Javon Searles Barbados 21 December 1986 Right Right-arm medium-fast Local franchise player
- Anderson Phillip Trinidad and Tobago 22 August 1996 Right Right-arm medium-fast U-19 player
Wicket-keepers
40 Denesh Ramdin Trinidad and Tobago 13 April 1985 Right Local franchise player
40 William Perkins Trinidad and Tobago 8 October 1986 Right Local franchise player
— Hamza Tariq Canada 21 July 1990 Right ICC Americas Player
Bowlers
- Nikita Miller Jamaica 16 May 1982 Right Left-arm Slow Local franchise player
74 Sunil Narine Trinidad and Tobago 26 May 1988 Left Right-arm Off break Local franchise player
62 Sulieman Benn Barbados 22 July 1981 Left Slow left arm orthodox Local franchise player
- Ronsford Beaton Guyana 8 September 1992 Right Right-arm fast Local franchise player
- Yannic Cariah Trinidad and Tobago 22 June 1992 Left left-arm Leg BreakLocal franchise player

Home ground

QPO – Flood lights turned on

The Trinbago Knight Riders plays their home games at the Queen's Park Oval in Port of Spain. The QPO was also the host ground of the semi-finals and finals of 2013 and 2015 editions of the CPL. The Queen's Park Oval is one of the oldest and most historic of grounds in the Caribbean as well as having one of the largest capacities, accommodating approximately 20,000 spectators in comfort. Home of the Queen's Park Cricket Club (QPCC) since 1896, it has hosted Test matches since 1930, ODIs since 1983 and T20s since 2009.

References

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