Former West Indies captain Kieron Pollard stated the primary Caribbean Premier League pink card handed out to his Trinbago Knight Riders facet was “absolutely ridiculous”.
Trinbago was pressured to area with solely 10 gamers, together with simply two exterior the 30-yard circle, for the ultimate over of its bowling innings towards St Kitts and Nevis Patriots on Sunday as a result of a sluggish over-rate.
The CPL has introduced within the pink card rule as a part of new initiatives to hurry up sluggish over-rates.
Pollard was first pressured to have one additional fielder contained in the ring for the 18th over, earlier than one other needed to come up from the boundary within the penultimate over, leaving simply three within the outfield.
His crew was nonetheless behind the required charge heading into the ultimate over and spinner Sunil Narine was pressured to depart the sphere.
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“To be honest, it will take away the hard work everyone has done,” Pollard stated.
“We are like the pawns and we are going to do what we are told. We are going to play as fast as we can. If you are penalised for 30-45 seconds in a tournament like this, it is absolutely ridiculous.”
Despite the ultimate over of the Patriots’ innings costing Trinbago’s Dwayne Bravo 18 runs, it didn’t show essential.
Pollard, Nicholas Pooran and Andre Russell made brief work of a 179-run goal with 17 balls spare.
Source web site: sportstar.thehindu.com
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