The Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers will have to go for their hat-trick of Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League ti­tles this sea­son with­out in­spi­ra­tional skip­per Dwayne Bra­vo.

Bra­vo made the an­nounce­ment dur­ing the team’s match against the Ja­maica Tallawahs on Fri­day night at the Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain, a match which TKR even­tu­al­ly went on to win by 22 runs.

Ap­pear­ing as a guest com­men­ta­tor with the TV team as the TKR were bat­ting against the Tallawahs, Bra­vo an­nounced that the in­jury he suf­fered to his left hand would keep him out of ac­tion for the next two months.

He said fol­low­ing re­cent surgery on the mid­dle fin­ger of his left hand, his doc­tors have since ad­vised him he would need eight weeks to ful­ly re­cu­per­ate.

"The next aim for me is re­hab to try to get my fin­gers mov­ing again, it is go­ing to be a long process...I will back play­ing com­pet­i­tive crick­et in about two months' time," Bra­vo told the com­men­tary time sit­ting with him at the time.

Kieron Pol­lard is cur­rent­ly deputis­ing for Bra­vo. He was se­lect­ed to lead the TKR af­ter it was an­nounced last week that Bra­vo would be out with the in­jury. How­ev­er, when that an­nounce­ment was made, the TKR man­age­ment had in­di­cat­ed that Bra­vo would miss a sig­nif­i­cant part of the tour­na­ment as op­posed to the en­tire se­ries.

This will be the first time in his ca­reer that Bra­vo will be un­able to line up with the Knight Rid­ers in the CPL.

Bra­vo’s younger broth­er Dar­ren is al­so cur­rent­ly side­lined by in­jury. He is still await­ing clear­ance from the doc­tors to play af­ter suf­fer­ing a con­cus­sion dur­ing the West In­dies re­cent test match against In­dia.