Three mem­bers of the un­beat­en Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers were se­lect­ed on the 2020 Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) All-stars team which was an­nounced on Wednes­day.

First-time fi­nal­ist, the St. Lu­cia Zouks had on­ly one mem­ber se­lect­ed for the tour­na­ment's XI which was se­lect­ed by the com­men­tary team of Tom Moody, Ian Bish­op, Daren Gan­ga, Dan­ny Mor­ri­son and Samuel Badree.

Three mem­bers of the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors squad and two play­ers from the Ja­maica Tallawahs and one each from St Kitts and Nevis Pa­tri­ots and the 2019 cham­pi­ons, Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents, got the se­lec­tors nod with TRK cap­tain Kieron Pol­lard ap­point­ed leader.

Tom Moody, CPL’s Di­rec­tor of In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et, said: “Af­ter healthy dis­cus­sion and de­bate the com­men­ta­tors have fi­nalised what they be­lieve is a pow­er-packed all-star XI from Hero CPL 2020. With a tour­na­ment dom­i­nat­ed by world-class spin there was an abun­dance of rich­es, Im­ran Tahir again proved a chal­lenge to all who came his way. Pol­lard’s all-round skills again brought some eye-catch­ing per­for­mances, it was an easy de­ci­sion to make him the cap­tain af­ter a flaw­less league stage."

In a tour­na­ment dom­i­nat­ed by world-class spin, there was an abun­dance of rich­es, Im­ran Tahir again proved a chal­lenge to all who came his way.

Mean­while, Sam­my who will lead the Zouks in­to their first fi­nal against the favourites Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do from 10 am this morn­ing said af­ter his team's semi­fi­nal win on Tues­day night, “My mes­sage be­fore I came out was this is not what we came here for – we didn’t come here to cel­e­brate a semi­fi­nal. No­body re­al­ly gave us a chance but we have some ef­fec­tive guys. We don’t have guys in the top 10 or top five in the runs but we’ve played as a team. It’s a mas­sive ef­fort to get to the fi­nal with the play­ers that we have.”

The TKR which out­played the Ja­maica Tallawahs in their semi­fi­nal match to se­cure their place in the ti­tle-match was re­mind­ed by their cap­tain Pol­lard that, “Get­ting this far now is about the big pic­ture which is on Thurs­day so for us. We still have to try and keep it lev­el. We still have to try and en­joy our vic­to­ry as we’ve been do­ing through­out the en­tire tour­na­ment but we still have to come in 48 hours and try to play a bet­ter game of crick­et than we did to­day.”

The 2020 CPL All-Stars Team:

Glenn Phillips (wk) – Ja­maica Tallawahs

Sunil Nar­ine – Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers

Shim­ron Het­my­er – Guyana Ama­zon War­riors

Nicholas Pooran – Guyana Ama­zon War­riors

Dar­ren Bra­vo – Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers

Kieron Pol­lard (capt) – Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers

Mo­ham­mad Nabi – St Lu­cia Zouks

Ja­son Hold­er – Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents

Rayad Em­rit – St Kitts & Nevis Pa­tri­ots

Im­ran Tahir – Guyana Ama­zon War­riors

Mu­jeeb ur Rah­man – Ja­maica Tallawahs

The se­lec­tors al­so picked one Caribbean and one over­seas 12th man to round out the squad. These are as fol­lows:

Scott Kuggele­jin – St Lu­cia Zouks

Keemo Paul – Guyana Ama­zon War­riors