As they set­tled on a char­tered flight on Sunday morn­ing at the George F Charles Air­port in St Lu­cia, the mood was som­bre as the mem­bers of the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) were very con­cerned about the sit­u­a­tion in­volv­ing the Trop­i­cal Storm Karen hit­ting Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Team man­ag­er Col­in Bor­de said the play­ers were think­ing about their fam­i­lies and cit­i­zens at large and pray­ing for every­one’s safe­ty.

“This (yes­ter­day) morn­ing we are not think­ing crick­et but the safe­ty of our peo­ple back home. Of course, most of us have our fam­i­lies there and we are not go­ing home at the mo­ment. Even if we want­ed it would have been hard be­cause of the fact that the air­port at Pi­ar­co is closed,” Bor­de told the T&T Guardian.

“We fly in­to Bar­ba­dos now and we will mon­i­tor the sit­u­a­tion at home. We want T&T to know that TKR is think­ing about them and that we love them. We are hop­ing all this pass­es quick­ly and we can bring the smiles back to their faces through crick­et.”

The TKR them­selves were af­fect­ed by the el­e­ments as they had to share the spoils with the St Lu­cia Zouks af­ter their sixth-round Caribbean Pre­mier League clash was rained out af­ter an hour and five min­utes at the Daren Sam­my Sta­di­um in Gros Islet on Sat­ur­day night.

TKR won the toss and sent the home team in to bat. The Zouks reached 99-4 when the heav­ens opened up af­ter 12.2 overs to bring an end con­test.

At that point, Zouks bats­man Col­in In­gram was un­beat­en on 52 off 34 balls with five fours and two six­es.

Ear­li­er, TKR won the toss and with the weath­er around they asked the Zouks to bat first.

Muham­mad Ali Khan struck with his first ball, in the sec­ond over, send­ing back the dan­ger­ous An­dre Fletch­er for nine. He re­ceived a bul­let-like de­liv­ery that rushed on to him and it went sky­wards, al­low­ing Khary Pierre to com­plete the catch.

Jim­my Nee­sham then struck by send­ing back John Camp­bell for six. In­gram was then joined by Col­in de Grand­homme and they added 51 runs for the third wick­et. TKR skip­per Kieron Pol­lard then came on and took pace off the ball to make it dif­fi­cult to time. This led to the wick­et of de Grand­homme, as he drove up­pish­ly to Nee­sham at mid-off.

Left-arm spin­ner Pierre, who was bowl­ing very well, was re­ward­ed with the big wick­et of Rakheem Corn­wall for eight and as he walked off the rain fol­lowed him.

TKR, with nine points from six match­es, re­mained sec­ond to the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors (10 points) fol­low­ing the tie. The St Kitts Nevis Pa­tri­ots are third on the six-team ta­ble with eight points, the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents (4 pts) fourth, Zouks (3 pts) fifth and the Ja­maica Tallawahs (2 pts) are dead last.

TKR’s next as­sign­ment is on Thurs­day against the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents at the Kens­ing­ton Oval.