WATCH: Nicholas Pooran smashes 7 sixes in match-winning knock for Shah Rukh Khan’s team, becomes 4th West Indies cricketer to achieve THIS…

Nicholas Pooran blasted a match-winning 93 no longer out off just 43 balls to arrange a seven-wicket win for Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan owned Trinibago Knight Riders (TKR) in their Caribbean Premier League (CPL) 2024 match against St Kitts & Nevis Patriots at the Brian Lara Stadium in Tarouba. Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) batter Pooran’s knock became studded with 7 massive sixes and 6 fours as he helped TKR chase down a enormous 194-run target with 9 balls to spare.

En route his 93, Pooran also completed eight,000 runs in T20 cricket in 336 innings, changing into the 4th West Indies batter to arrive this feat. ‘Universe Boss’ Chris Gayle tops the charts with 14,562 T20 runs followed by TKR captain and Mumbai Indians (MI) coach Kieron Pollard, who has 13,267 runs while Andre Russell has eight,772 runs.

WATCH Nicholas Pooran’s match-winning 93 in CPL 2024 match HERE…

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After winning their first match of the competition, the Patriots have lost every game since, but this defeat in Tarouba gave the impression especially cruel after they posted a sizeable 193/four with the bat after being inserted at the toss.

Captain Andre Fletcher led from the front with a brilliant innings of 93 from 61 balls that included shots all across the bottom and 6 sixes struck into the gang. Fletcher became denied a deserved century, falling short by seven runs when Chris Jordan had him caught by the bucket hands of Kieron Pollard on the long off boundary.

Jordan became the percent of the Knight Riders bowlers and also gave a glimpse of his own velcro hands by pulling off a solid diving catch off his own bowling when Kyle Mayers mis-timed a quick ball and offered up a sharp return chance.

The Knight Riders were clinical in their chase, Jason Roy blitzing sixty four runs from 34 deliveries at the pinnacle of the order before Nicholas Pooran finished the job in some style, striking a flat six down the bottom – his seventh of the evening – to accomplish the match.

Pooran became Player of the Match, hitting 13 boundaries to accomplish undefeated on 93 no longer out off just 43 deliveries, albeit he became aided by some sloppy catching that saw him put down on a handful of occasions within the sphere.

“It’s an awfully nice feeling, at first for the win and to perform on this environment, the gang became fantastic at present time. We just had to recover from the road. I'm ready to’t take into account when last I got so many chances in a game. I'm actually pleased that I might be there till the end, that’s what I always would love to do as a batsman. Worldwide this tournament, I've been getting starts. As a substitute of the primary game, I truly didn’t make a contribution an excessive amount of for the team,” Pooran said at the post-match presentation.

The Patriots will rue the dropped catches and the missed opportunity to accomplish a tricky campaign with a victory over one amongst the many favourite sides. The Knight Riders will have the good thing about a Net Run Rate boost having hauled down the sizeable target with 9 balls remaining, they now sit on ten points alongside Barbados Royals and Guyana Amazon Warriors.