WCPL 2024: Barbados Royals Deny Shah Rukh Khan A Second Title For The Year

Barbados Royals defeated Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan-owned Trinbago Knight Riders just by 4 wickets inside of the premier of the Ladies folks’s Caribbean Best League (WCPL) 2024 at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba, Trinidad on Thursday (August 30) evening time. ‘Player of the Adventure’ Hayley Matthews gained the toss and selected to insert the opposition and the Royals captain herself struck a substantive blow early on, bowling the hazardous Deandra Dottin for just six runs with a distinguished ball that zipped off the wicket and onto the stumps.

Shah Rukh Khan’s Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) had gained the Indian Best League (IPL) 2024 beforehand this 12 months. SRK would have been hoping for a double with the WCPL title this 12 months.

Chinelle Henry then held a shrewdpermanent return catch to brush aside Jemimah Rodrigues, leaving the Knight Riders struggling on 10 for two inside of three overs. Jannillea Glasgow and Shikha Pandey steadied the ship, going by 31 balls each and each for twenty-4 and 28 runs respectively alternatively the Knight Riders fell from fifty three for three inside of the eleventh over to seventy five for 8 inside of the seventeenth over.

A battle to in discovering the boundary became a theme great just by the Knight Riders’ innings, they managed just two sixes and 6 fours of their twenty overs unlike the Royals who peppered the marketing hoardings 13 cases in five less overs. The Knight Riders’ whole of ninety three-8 never regarded like being huge to preclude the Royals scooping a second consecutive WCPL title and so it proved.

Sri Lanka batter Chamari Athapaththu set about the lowly target with get pleasure from, hitting a flurry of early boundaries to interrupt the returned of the chase. At some level of the previous than the recreation the Sri Lankan all-rounder had spoken of how a lot she enjoys taking part in inside of the match.

“I've performed in every league across the energy of intellect, alternatively I really in most cases like this opponents. It be a particular ecosystem. The avid gamers, manual personnel and the total thing is diverse when in evaluation to diverse international locations. The avid gamers have a particular vibe inside of the dressing room,” Athapaththu had observed.

At some level of the previous inside of the afternoon, Aaliyah Alleyne starred with the ball in hand for the Royals, the astounding arm seamer bowling an great line, exerting stress and forcing some rash shots. She ended with figures of 4/21 off her 4 overs and threw in some superb and nicely-choreographed dance moves upon choosing up her wickets. It became to be a Player of the Swimsuit whole performance.

Aaliyah rocked the home tonight.

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