Open­ing bats­mann Lendl Sim­mons (84) and Dar­ren Bra­vo (58) both end­ed un­beat­en, helped guide the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) to com­plet­ed the first per­fect sea­son in fran­chise T20 his­to­ry with an un­bro­ken part­ner­ship of 138 off 88 balls, the high­est of Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) 2020 and the high­est ever in a fi­nal.

TKR de­feat­ed the St Lu­cia Zouks by eight wick­ets af­ter set 155 for vic­to­ry in the ti­tle-match at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Thurs­day. The Zouks with their first fi­nal ap­pear­ance post­ed what seems as a com­pet­i­tive to­tal, but ul­ti­mate­ly a loss of 7/39 off the last 32 balls of their in­nings cost them dear­ly against this his­to­ry-mak­ing Knight Rid­ers squad.

All sea­son, the Knight Rid­ers had ab­sorbed the loss of key per­son­nel - Col­in Munro frac­tured his hand, Ali Khan missed games, Nar­ine had kid­ney stones re­moved and was un­able to play the fi­nal with a knee in­jury. But per­haps the 12th and fi­nal win is the great­est mea­sure of how great a squad Pol­lard and Bren­don Mc­Cul­lum have built - vic­to­ry was achieved two wick­ets down, with 11 balls to spare, with­out DJ Bra­vo bowl­ing or Pol­lard bat­ting. The Knight Rid­ers had come to­geth­er in the bub­ble, and emerged from it to achieve some­thing tru­ly mon­u­men­tal.

FI­NAL RE­SULTS

Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers 157/2 (Sim­mons 84*, DM Bra­vo 58*; Chase 1/13, Kuggelei­jn 1/30) beat St Lu­cia Zouks 154 all out (Fletch­er 39, Deyal 29, Na­jibul­lah 24, Chase 22; Pol­lard 4/30, Fawad 2/22, Ali Khan 2/25, Ho­sein 1/26) by 8 wick­ets

Re­sult: TKR won by eight wick­ets.

Se­ries: TKR win 2020 CPL ti­tle.

Man-of-the-Match: Lendl Sim­mons.

Man-of-the-Se­ries: Kieron Pol­lard.