CPL 2021: Shah Rukh Khan’s team loses in Super Over, Kieron Pollard gets out on first ball, doesn’t even get a run

New Delhi. Multiple players are playing in the Caribbean Premier League 2021 (CPL 2021). There was a breathtaking match in this tournament on Wednesday. In the 11th match of CPL 2021, the match between Guyana Amazon Warriors and Trinbago Knight Riders (Trinbago Knight Riders vs. Guyana Amazon Warriors) was tied and then the winner was decided by Super Over (TKR vs GAW, Super Over). Guyana Warriors won the Super Over. Interestingly, the Guyana Warriors run only runs in the Super Over but the Trincomalee Knight Riders equipped with star players like Kieron Pollard, Colin Munro and Tim Seifert can only run runs with balls and lose the match.

Guyana Amazon Warriors captain Nicholas Puran won the toss and invited the Trincomalee Knight Riders to bat. Lendl Simmons was out on the first ball but Colin Munro’s 322, Sunil Narine’s 21 and finally Isru Udanar’s 21-ball helped the Knight Riders reach 18 in 20 overs. In reply, the Guyana Amazon Warriors could score just 138 runs in 20 overs. Shimron Hetmeyer and captain Nicholas Puran contributed 27-27. Guyana needed runs in the last over and captain Pollard gave the ball to Akil Hossain. He gave 7 runs in the last over. Imran Tahir was run out in the last ball, due to which the match was tied.

Super over thrill
Trincomalee captain Kieron Pollard won the toss and elected to field first. Sunil Narine was given the charge of super over bowling and this bowler bowled wonderfully to Puran and Hetmeyer. Old was caught by Pollard with the third ball. At that time the team’s score was only runs. Hetmeyer hit a four off the fourth ball but was dismissed in the fifth. Thus, the team of Guyana was able to score only 6 runs.

It seemed that Kieron Pollard’s team would easily win this match but it did not happen. Guyana fast bowler Romario Shepherd handed over the bowling. Pollard and Colin Munro came to the crease through Trincomalee. But Romano made the match thrilling by dismissing Pollard with the first ball. Romania then did not give a boundary in the next five balls. Munro could not make any run in the second ball. He could make only one run in the third ball. Sefert took 2 runs in the fourth ball, and he can make only one run in the fifth ball. The Knight Riders needed runs in the last ball but Sefert was able to score only one run and thus Guyana won the match by 2 runs.