Fol­low­ing Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers' (TKR's) de­feat to Bar­ba­dos Roy­als, out­raged TKR fans are now claim­ing that the match was sab­o­taged.

The Bar­ba­dos Roy­als were min­utes away from elim­i­na­tion against TKR when faulty lights at the Prov­i­dence Sta­di­um in Guyana de­layed the match for over two hours.

By the time the prob­lem was sort­ed and play re­sumed, TKR’s op­po­nents were giv­en five overs to score 60 runs, us­ing the Duck­worth–Lewis–Stern method (DLS).

The Roy­als at­tained the tar­get score elim­i­nat­ing the Knight Rid­ers from the com­pe­ti­tion ef­fec­tive­ly vex­ing thou­sands of fans across the Caribbean re­gion with them call­ing for a re­match.

Se­nior all-rounder play­er for TKR, An­dre Rus­sell took to so­cial me­dia, ex­press­ing his dis­plea­sure with the re­sults of the match.

In a post laden with ex­ple­tives, he said, “Am not the per­son to come on the in­ter­net and voice my opin­ion but this year CPL I feel robbed.”

One so­cial me­dia user stat­ed, “I am not sure how the Roy­als could feel proud of that "win". There needs to be an in­ves­ti­ga­tion.”

An­oth­er so­cial me­dia user said, “Foul play, but Tri­ni doh for­got, es­pe­cial­ly when it comes to crick­et. Is licks for them next year and no black­out go­ing to save them. Stay strong TKR for you are the true win­ners of this year's tour­na­ment.”

The match left many dis­ap­point­ed as star bats­man for TKR Nicholas Pooran seemed head­ed to­wards his sec­ond cen­tu­ry of the CPL bat­ting 91 not out off 60 balls.

Fans are al­so ques­tion­ing the tim­ing of the re­turn of the lights for the match, as some ar­gued that it seemed pre­med­i­tat­ed, en­sur­ing the Roy­als a chance to fight for a win.

So­cial me­dia user Joe Pa­tel, said “the lights sud­den­ly came on right at the time when the cut off was about to hit for MY team (TKR) to move in­to the next match?”

The re­sult means that Bar­ba­dos pro­gress­es to the qual­i­fi­er match on Fri­day 4 Oc­to­ber, one step clos­er to the fi­nal match.