The Man­age­ment, staff and mem­bers of the Queen's Park Crick­et Club wish to ex­tend sin­cer­est con­grat­u­la­tions to skip­per Kieron Pol­lard and the en­tire Trin­ba­go knight Rid­ers (TKR) squad on their re­sound­ing vic­to­ry in the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) fi­nal against a very plucky St Lu­cia Zouks out­fit on Thurs­day. TKR won by eight wick­ets.

The pro­fes­sion­al­ism and or­gan­i­sa­tion ex­hib­it­ed by the TKR play­ers through­out the tour­na­ment were ex­em­plary. By win­ning all 12 games dur­ing the tour­na­ment they achieved what no oth­er fran­chise team has been able to do since the in­cep­tion of the CPL . It took good plan­ning , de­ter­mi­na­tion, com­mit­ment and to­tal con­cen­tra­tion from a well oiled unit dur­ing a dif­fi­cult tour­na­ment in dif­fi­cult times.

Queen's Park Crick­et Club is al­so ex­treme­ly proud of the fact that we had nine play­ers (Kieron Pol­lard, Dwayne & Dar­ren Bra­vo, Sunil Nar­ine, Akeal Ho­sein, Khary Pierre, An­der­son Phillip, Tion Web­ster and Jay­den Seales, and three of­fi­cials (Col­in Bor­de, Im­ran Jan and Kevon Coop­er) rep­re­sent­ing the win­ning fran­chise TKR.

In ad­di­tion the club would like to sin­gle out four more of our play­ers Joshua da Sil­va and Jon Russ Jagges­sar with St Kitts and Nevis Pa­tri­ots and Nicholas Pooran and Kissoon­dath Ma­gram with the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors. A to­tal of 13 play­ers and three of­fi­cials from Queen's Park Crick­et Club - a feat which no oth­er Caribbean club has matched in the his­to­ty of the CPL.

Spe­cial con­grat­u­la­tions should al­so go out to Nicholas Pooran on be­ing the on­ly cen­tu­ri­on of the tour­na­ment. To Dwayne Bra­vo on his re­mark­able achieve­ments of cap­tur­ing 500 T20 and 100 CPL wick­ets in his ca­reer and to skip­per Pol­lard on play­ing in 500 T20 games.

We al­so wish to thank our hard work­ing ground staff and main­te­nance staff for a won­der­ful job un­der try­ing and tough cir­cum­stances giv­en the weath­er and the bio se­cure arrange­ments in which the tour­na­ment was be­ing played.

It is in­deed grat­i­fy­ing that the TKR and the CPL have some­what lift­ed the doom and gloom dur­ing this pan­dem­ic and have made us all smile.