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CPL 2020 Match 29: TKR vs SKN Preview Dream11 Possible Playing 11 Pitch Report | TKR vs SKN Dream11 Prediction Today 6 September 2020 | Trinbago Knight Riders vs St. Kitts and Nevis Patriots Key Players | Tarouba Pitch Report
We are into the last few games of the league stages of CPL 2020. We already have the 4 teams qualified for the semi-finals in Trinbago, Guyana, St.Lucia, and Jamaica. The unbeaten Trinbago Knight Riders will play against the bottom-placed St. Kitts and Nevis Patriots.
Trinbago is in red hot form winning 9 out of 9 matches played this season. Their senior players are performing well and their bowlers have also assisted them well. Lendl Simmons, Darren Bravo, Kieron Pollard, Dwayne Bravo, Tim Seifert, and everyone else has performed very well for them. As they are now qualified for the semis they can make some changes and do some experiments in this match.
St.Kitts and Nevis Patriots would desperately want this tournament to end. Nothing has gone their way so far. Their batting has failed miserably and the bowling too hasn’t been great after the initial few games. Over-dependence on the top order and lack of batting, depth has proved to be very costly for them. They will want to win this game and finish this season well.
Key Players to Watch/Key Stats
- Darren Bravo has 257 runs against the Patriots. He scored a fifty in the last game.
- Kieron Pollard is in superb form. He is making some useful contributions lower down the order and is also chipping in with few wickets with the ball. He scored 42 (21) and picked three wickets in the last game.
- Evin Lewis has most runs in TKR vs SKN games. He has 342 runs against TKR.
- Lendl Simmons hit 96 vs SKN earlier this week.
- DJ Bravo has 20 wickets against the Patriots.
- Sunil Narine against the left-handers in the middle-order of the Patriots will be very important. Also, Narine has been making useful contributions at the top, striking at 150.53 in his four matches to date. His batting scores in CPL 2020: 50 (28), 53 (38), 8 (16), and 29 (11).
- Colin Munro has 294 runs against SKN. He was rested in the last game but is in great form this CPL scoring 207 runs in 8 games.
- Sheldon Cottrell has 18 wickets against TKR.
- Chris Lynn finally showed some glimpses of coming back in form, He’d like to finish this CPL with a big score.
- Joshua da Silva looked in good touch in the last two games.
Stats and Facts
- Head-to-Head: 15 Matches, 11 TKR, and 4 SKN.
- Trinbago Knight Riders have dominated the Patriots and are unbeaten in 9 games this season.
- TKR has won 3 out of 4 games at The Brian Lara Stadium.
Possible Playing 11
Both teams could make plenty of changes for this this game.
SKN Possible Playing XI: 1. Evin Lewis, 2. Chris Lynn, 3. Joshua Da Silva, 4. Denesh Ramdin (wk), 5. Ben Dunk 6. Colin Archibald/Sohail Tanvir, 7. Rayad Emrit (c), 8. Imran Khan, 9. Sheldon Cottrell 10. Alzarri Joseph, 11. Jon-Russ Jaggesar
Colin Munro has a small fracture in his finger, so it is unlikely that he will play.
TKR Possible Playing XI: 1. Lendl Simmons, 2. Sunil Narine/Tion Webster, 3. Tim Seifert (wk), 4. Darren Bravo, 5. Kieron Pollard (c), 6. Dwayne Bravo, 7. Sikandar Raza, 8. Akeal Hossain, 9. Khary Pierre, 10. Fawad Ahmed, 11. Jayden Seales
Tarouba Pitch and Weather Report
TKR have hit 170+ in each of their last three games, so they enjoy batting on this surface. The pitch at The Brian Lara Stadium has assisted the batters a bit more in the last few games compared to the initial games. With some good batters in both sides, we can expect a good high scoring encounter, especially if TKR bats first. Spinners and Pacers with variations will continue to get assistance from the wicket.
There is a chance of some rain throughout the day.
Dream11 Prediction
Option 1 (if Sunil Narine plays):
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Match Prediction
TKR are clear favorites of this game. Their squad is very balanced and batters and bowlers have performed exceptionally well when compared with the Patriots. Patriots will want to win this game and finish this season on a high, but it might be too hard for them.
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