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Barbados Royals and Trinbago Knight Riders will face off in the 2021 Caribbean Premier League.
The match is scheduled to take place at 10am local time (3pm BST, 7.30pm IST) on Thursday, September 9, 2021
Full CPL 2021 fixture list: Click here
Every game in the 2021 Caribbean Premier League is being held at Warner Park on St Kitts, in an effort to minimise the Covid-19 risk to the tournament.
Barbados Royals go into this one with just one victory to their name in six outings in this year's Caribbean Premier League.
There is hope for Royals fans, however, given that win came in their most recent encounter.
Guyana Amazon Warriors were the defeated party, just three days after the same opponents mauled the Royals by nine wickets.
Nyeem Young took 3 for 24 as Barbados comfortably defended their total of 185 for 8, winning by 45 runs.
Trinbago Knight Riders, meanwhile, are unbeaten in their last four - three wins and a tie with Guyana. TKR beat Jamaica Tallawahs twice in 48 hours recently and with eight points from their seven fixtures are well in the post-season mix.
Azam Khan leads the way with the bat for Barbados Royals in the 2021 CPL.
Khan, ranked 352nd in the men's T20 Player Index, has 157 runs at a strike rate of 138 for Barbados this season and tops the franchise's runscoring charts ahead of Glenn Phillips and Johnson Charles.
No Barbados batsman has a better average than 27 in this year's competition.
With the ball, Mohammad Amir leads the Royals' wicket-taking charts with six so far. Amir's economy rate of 5.51 is considerably better than his closest teammate's (Oshane Thomas with 7.21).
For Trinbago Knight Riders, four batsmen are in the top 14 runscorers in the competition - prior to Wednesday's action.
Kieron Pollard has 169 at 42, with a 144 strike rate.
With the ball, Ravi Rampaul's 17 wickets sees him lead the overall standings in the CPL.
Matches played: 14
Barbados Royals wins: 7
Trinbago Knight Riders wins: 11
Sadly, no. Morning matches are played behind closed doors while 50 per cent of the ground's capacity can be filled with fans in the evening.
No rain forecast, with temperatures hovering around 32 degrees Celsius. Plenty of cloud cover could make the ball do a bit, but rain is highly unlikely.
Click here for the Accuweather forecast.
On field: Nigel Duguid, Deighton Butler
TV umpire: Christopher Taylor
Fourth umpire: Leslie Reifer Jr
Trinbago are in form, Barbados are not - despite that last win.
Trinbago Knight Riders are heavy favourites in most places, with best available odds of 4/7 at time of publication. Barbados Royals are as long as 11/8 with Paddy Power and Betfair.
CPL TEAM GUIDES
BT Sport have the live broadcast rights to the competition in the United Kingdom and will be showing all 33 matches on their platforms.
For UK streamers, BT Sport will have all of the action available online and on the BT Sport app. A 30-day monthly pass is available for £25, providing access to every BT channel and the app. EE customers can access every channel for a £20 per month add-on to their phone contract.
Where can I watch elsewhere in the world?
Australia: Fox Sports
New Zealand: Sky Sport NZ
India: FanCode
South Africa: SuperSport
USA: Willow TV
Middle East: Etisalat
Pan-Caribbean: SportsMax (Except Trinidad & Guyana)
Trinidad: CNC3
Barbados: CBC
St Lucia: Helen TV
Antigua & Barbuda: CNS
Guyana: E- Networks
Grenada: GBN
Barbados Royals: Jason Holder, Glenn Phillips, Chris Morris, Raymon Reifer, Kyle Mayers, Oshane Thomas, Ashley Nurse, Shai Hope, Thisara Perera, Justin Greaves, Joshua Bishop, Hayden Walsh Jr, Johnson Charles, Nyeem Young, Mohammad Amir, Azam Khan, Shafiqullah Ghafari, Smit Patel, Jake Lintott
Trinbago Knight Riders: Kieron Pollard, Sunil Narine, Darren Bravo, Denesh Ramdin, Ravi Rampaul, Colin Munro, Khary Pierre, Anderson Phillip, Yasir Shah, Ali Khan, Tion Webster, Akeal Hoesin, Lendl Simmons, Jayden Seales, Isuru Udana, Leonardo Julien, Tim Seifert
Full CPL 2021 squad lists: Click here
Barbados Royals: Johnson Charles, Azam Khan, Samit Patel, Glenn Phillips, Raymon Reifer, Jason Holder, Kyle Mayers, Nyeem Young, Ashley Nurse, Jake Lintott, Mohammad Amir
Trinbago Knight Riders: Lendl Simmons, Leonardo Julien, Colin Munro, Tim Seifert, Kieron Pollard, Darren Bravo, Sunil Narine, Khary Pierre, Akeal Hosein, Ravi Rampaul, Ali Khan
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