Latest news with #TrinbagoKnightRiders
India Gazette
13 hours ago
- Sport
- India Gazette
CPL: KKR team mentor Dwayne Bravo replaces Phil Simmons as new Trinbago Knight Riders head coach
New Delhi [India], June 20 (ANI): Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) have announced the appointment of former West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo as their new head coach for the upcoming edition of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) 2025. Following the latest development, Bravo has replaced Phil Simmons, who is currently serving as the head coach of the Bangladesh men's team. 'It's an honour to be given the opportunity to be Head Coach of TKR, a team that's very close to my heart. I would like to personally thank Coach Phil Simmons for his time and commitment over the last few years, and now I look forward to this new challenge for me and my staff,' Bravo said in a social media post of the franchise. During his stint in the Caribbean Premier League as a player, Bravo made 107 appearances between 2013 and 2024 and scalped 129 wickets while maintaining his economy rate at 8.74. Of 11 seasons, Bravo represented the Trinbago Knight Riders in nine. He lifted the title five times, including the season when he led St Kitts and Nevis Patriots to a memorable title run in 2021. Last year, Bravo was appointed as the head coach of the Abu Dhabi Knight Riders in the ILT20. In the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL), Bravo retired from the league in 2022 and served as a bowling consultant for the five-time champions Chennai Super Kings for the 2023 and 2024 seasons. In IPL 2025, Bravo joined the Kolkata Knight Riders to replace Gautam Gambhir as the team mentor. Under his watch, the Knight Riders, the defending champions, failed to defend their crown and finished eighth with 12 points. The renowned West Indies all-rounder lifted four IPL titles with CSK in different roles. The decorated Caribbean star is the sixth-highest wicket-taker in IPL history with 183 scalps and the first player to win two purple caps in the tournament, in 2013 and 2015. (ANI)
India Today
16 hours ago
- Sport
- India Today
CPL 2025: Trinbago Knight Riders appoint Dwayne Bravo as new head coach
Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) have appointed Dwayne Bravo as their head coach for the 2025 edition of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL), ushering in a new era for the most successful franchise in tournament history. Bravo replaces Phil Simmons, who has taken up the role of head coach of the Bangladesh men's national team.A CPL stalwart, Bravo's association with the tournament stretches back to its inception in 2013. He played 107 matches across 11 seasons, finishing with 129 wickets at an economy rate of 8.74. Nine of those seasons were spent with TKR, a franchise he helped to four titles, and a fifth with St Kitts and Nevis Patriots in 2021—his lone season away, which also saw him lead the side to their maiden an honour to be given the opportunity to be head coach of TKR, a team that's very close to my heart,' Bravo said in a post on social media. 'I would like to personally thank Coach Phil Simmons for his time and commitment over the last few years, and now I look forward to this new challenge for me and my staff.' This appointment continues Bravo's growing coaching portfolio. Last year, he was named head coach of the Abu Dhabi Knight Riders in the ILT20, another team owned by the Knight Riders group. He also served as a mentor for the Kolkata Knight Riders in the 2025 IPL and had stints as a bowling consultant with Chennai Super Kings in 2023 and 2024, following his retirement from playing in the IPL in the international level, Bravo was the bowling consultant for Afghanistan during the 2024 T20 World Cup, where the team made a historic run to the semi-finals before being knocked out by South will be hoping Bravo's experience and leadership can take them back to the top after a mixed campaign in CPL 2024. The franchise finished third in the league stage but bowed out in the Eliminator following a defeat to Barbados his transition into coaching, Bravo isn't done playing yet. The 40-year-old will feature once again alongside Chris Gayle and Kieron Pollard for West Indies Champions in the second edition of the World Championship of Legends (WCL), set to begin in England on July 18. The Caribbean side will open their campaign against South Africa Champions at Edgbaston on July 19. Last year, they reached the semi-finals before being ousted by Bravo at the helm, TKR will look to blend experience with youth as they aim for a record-extending fifth CPL Watch
BBC News
08-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Has West Indies' Pooran perfected T20 batting?
A West Indies left-hander dominating T20 cricket while striking sixes at will? You'd be forgiven for thinking we have been here with another devastating innings in the Indian Premier League on Tuesday, Nicholas Pooran continued his remarkable run of form in the shortest format - a run that is threatening to rewrite the the start of last year he has scored 738 more T20 runs than anyone else, is averaging 42.31, and is doing so while batting with a strike-rate of generally have a high strike-rate or average in T20s. Pooran is managing to achieve both. Is Pooran best in the world and better than Gayle? Condense the timeframe further and Pooran's statistics are even more remarkable. In his last 10 innings he is averaging 57.7 while striking at 199, suggesting he has found the cheat has hit 211 sixes since the start of 2024. The next batter on the list is South African Heinrich Klaasen on 29, broke former West Indies team-mate Chris Gayle's record for the most sixes in a calendar year last year - he hit 139 to Gayle's 135 in 2015 - and after scores of 70, 75, 44, 12 and 87 not out in this year's IPL is averaging 4.8 sixes per match this can better that in the IPL's history with Gayle's average of 3.9 per match during his peak years in 2012 the next best record."I don't plan to hit sixes," Pooran said earlier in the season."I just try my best to get in good positions and if it's there, just time the ball nicely." What makes Pooran so good? Pooran is regarded as one of the world's best hitters of spin. Over the past two IPL seasons, playing for Lucknow Super Giants, he has scored 448 runs at an average of 89.6 and strike-rate of 184.4 against slow bowlers - again suggesting he can bat with severe aggression while not getting stands with a classical-looking, slightly-open stance, taps the ground once as the spinner enters his delivery stride and then thrashes the ball with his fast hands."I've never worked on my bat speed, I'm just blessed with incredible talent," Pooran Trinidadian is not afraid to dispatch pace either. His strike-rate is 173.5 against left-arm quicks and 163.5 against to analysts CricViz, there is not one line of pace bowling Pooran does not strike at more than 200 against at the death. He strikes at more than 200 against every length except for yorkers, against which he takes down bowlers at a still-remarkable 166."He is a hard worker. No one ever sees that," former England all-rounder Samit Patel, who has played with Pooran at Trinbago Knight Riders and MI Emirates, told the BBC."The amount of training he does to try and hit sixes is phenomenal."His mindset is absolutely second to none and he is fully committed. There are no half-hearted swings."Having seen him train, if the ball lands in a certain area, he has trained and trained so it is natural to him [to hit sixes]."Since the start of 2023, Pooran strikes at 344.7 runs per hundred balls when playing the slog sweep, 266.7 when playing a hook shot and 234.7 on the pull. What can the bowlers do? Having previously batted in the middle order, Lucknow Super Giants and West Indies now use Pooran as a number result has been him succeeding in each phase of the game - the powerplay, middle overs and the death. Analysts CricViz measure a batter's performance with their 'batting impact' model and Pooran is the only player the world to have an average impact above four in all three phases since only obvious chink in Pooran's armour is against left-arm wrist-spin, against which he averages 31.5 and strikes at does have a weakness against bouncers, but only when they are bowled in the channel just outside off too wide and he averages 55.5. Get too straight with a line above the stumps and that number jumps to 126."Because he hits 360 degrees he is very difficult to bowl at," Patel says."From a spinners point of view, we try and make him cut the ball. We try and make him hit behind the wicket. "If he hits fours it's OK. When he hits sixes we know he is dangerous."
