Trinbago Knight Riders
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Trinbago Knight Riders cricket team: club from West India
The Caribbean Cricket Premier League is a very young tournament that has been running since 2013. However, this does not mean that teams from this league cannot perform beautifully. Despite their youth, the Caribbean cricket clubs are attracting a lot of attention. Among the most famous teams in this region of the planet are the Trinbago Knight Riders. The club was founded in Port of Spain – the capital of Trinidad and Tobago, the southernmost island of the Caribbean. And, accordingly, it represents this region in the Caribbean Premier League. The club is owned by the Indian franchise Kolkata Knight Riders, and the executive directors are Rajeev Singh and Lloyd Rangiah.
The Trinbago Knight Riders is based at Queen’s Park Oval located in Port of Spain. This cricket stadium was founded back in 1896 and has become an arena for many high-profile matches. The site is privately owned by the Queen’s Park Cricket Club and is currently the largest cricket stadium in the West Indies (capacity up to 20,000). It was reconstructed twice, in the 1950s and in 2007, before the World Cup. The repair work was carried out on a large scale, as an earthquake damaged the site. The first ODI match on the pitch was played in March 1983 and at Twenty20 International in 2009.
It is necessary to stop at the Trinbago Knight Riders logo. If you are familiar with the Indian Premier League, then you probably recognized the symbol of the Kolkata Knight Riders club, which is the owner of the Caribbean team, in the team’s coat of arms. The only difference is the color scheme in which the coat of arms is made. In addition to purple and gold, the Trinbago Knight Riders logo features red. The team from India depicts a knight’s helmet and a stylized shield, in which the team’s name is inscribed. The club’s uniforms are red and black, but these colors may change from season to season.
The Trinbago Knight Riders: a brief history of the team and its participation in the tournament
The Trinbago Knight Riders are one of six teams formed to kick off the first season of the Caribbean Premier League in 2013. The band’s original name is the Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel. With its first participation in the tournament, this team did not show anything supernatural, finishing in 4th place out of 6. Naturally, the team’s management made changes to the composition and strategy of the team’s work, and in the 2014 season it bore fruit: this time – the third place in the overall standings.
The Trinbago Knight Riders made a furor in 2015. They advanced to the final, where they fought the Barbados Tridents and won by 20 runs.
Also, Red Chillies Entertainment (owns part of the Kolkata Knight Riders franchise in India) acquired a stake in Red Steel in 2005. Accordingly, the company took over the management of the Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel cricket club, and as a result, renamed it to our familiar name – the Trinbago Knight Riders.
2016 in the Caribbean Premier League turned out to be unattractive for the team, but 2017 and 2018 were simply colossally successful. The Trinbago Knight Riders reached the final and won (2017 – St Kitts & Nevis Patriots, 2018 – Guyana Amazon Warriors), thus becoming a three-time champion titleholder.
2019 passed without high-profile victories, but a year later, in the 2020 season, the Trinbago Knight Riders again reached the final and beautifully defeated St Lucia Zouks, earning the champion title for the fourth time. Thus, the “Knights” are leaders in the championship in the Caribbean Cricket Premier League.
The Trinbago Knight Riders: Team Site and Social Media Review
The Trinbago Knight Riders has its official website, which we could not pass by. After all, the site is the team’s face on the Internet, and from there, users get the basic information about the club.
The site itself is developed quite well and contains all the relevant information about the team. Let’s briefly go through the main sections:
- News. Obviously, Caribbean cricket fans can find up-to-date information on events related to the Trinbago Knight Riders and its players there. Victories and defeats, replacements, announcements of performances – everything is there.
- Video. Various video content related to the team is here. There, fans of the “knights” can watch exclusive interviews and comments of the band members.
- Schedule and results. This section of the site contains all the information about the Trinbago Knight Riders games. There you can get the latest data on the upcoming and past performances of the club and familiarize yourself with the results table.
- Gallery. Here fans of the club can find interesting photos from the Trinbago Knight Riders performances. True, at the time of writing, this section was last updated around September 2020.
- Players. The team’s management is always trying to find new and more valuable players. The current state of the Trinbago Knight Riders team can be found in this section.
- Tournament table. Here, information on the position of all teams in the Caribbean Cricket Premier League is promptly updated.
- Shop. The Trinbago Knight Riders merchandise (jersey, masks, caps and even beer openers) is sold here. However, at the time of this writing, the store was not working. Users are redirected to a page with the inscription “Thanks for your support … Keep safe and see you in 2021!”. This suggests that the store will reopen in time for the new cricket season.
At the very bottom of the site, visitors can get information about the team’s sponsors and links to its pages on social networks.
The Trinbago Knight Riders are very active on popular social networks. It is immediately evident that the team is trying to make contact with the fans, constantly keeping them informed of the events in the team. On Instagram, the number of subscribers is more than 145 thousand; on Twitter – more than 113 thousand, on Facebook – more than 540 thousand. In addition, the club has its own YouTube channel, to which more than 77 thousand people are subscribed, but new content appears there very rarely.
The Trinbago Knight Riders: achievements and current line-up in 2021
The Trinbago Knight Riders is an active and highly productive team. In a very short time of the existence of the Caribbean Cricket Premier League, the guys were able to win the title of champion four times (as of 2021).
This makes them one of the strongest cricket teams in the league.
The club became the CPL champion in 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2020. As can be seen from the regularity of taking the championship title, the “knights” are worthy competitors for all cricket clubs in the Caribbean.
Any sports team participating in large-scale competitions tries to optimize its composition to achieve the highest results. The Trinbago Knight Riders are no exception. The team’s management is constantly looking for new lucrative contracts. As of 2021, at the time of this writing, the current roster of the club is as follows:
- Batsmen: Jason Mohammed, Kennar Lewis, Abhijai Mansingh, Haider Ali, Kirk McKenzie, Ibrahim Zadran.
- Bowlers: Veerasammy Permaul, Ryan Persuad, Qais Ahmed, Fidel Edwards, Migael Pretorius, Joshua James.
- All-rounders: Shakib Al Hasan, Andre Russell, Rovman Powell (captain), Carlos Brathwaite.
- Wicket-keepers: Chadwick Walton.
The Knight Riders have been coached since August 2019 by Brendon McCullum, a prominent former New Zealand cricketer. Before starting his career as a coach, the athlete played for the national team of New Zealand and many famous teams in various leagues. His former clubs include the Sussex, the Kochi Tuskers Kerala, the Brisbane Heat, the Chennai Super Kings, the Warwickshire, etc.
