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Barbados Royals

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Barbados Royals
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Personnel
CaptainTrinidad and Tobago Kieron Pollard
CoachRobin Singh
OwnerVijay Mallya
Team information
Colours  Blue   Yellow
Founded2013
Home groundKensington Oval
Capacity11,000
History
CPL wins1

The Barbados Tridents are the representative cricket team of Barbados in the Caribbean Premier League. It was one of the six teams created in 2013 for the inaugural season of the tournament. Hollywood actor Mark Wahlberg has an equity interest in the team. The tridents won the 2014 CPL and qualified for the champions league. They were out of the tournament in the group stage managing to win only one of their four matches.

Squad[1]

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No. Name[2] Nat Birth year Batting style Bowling style Notes
Batsmen
- Kane Williamson New Zealand (1990-08-08) 8 August 1990 (age 34) Right Right-arm off break Overseas
18 Shoaib Malik Pakistan (1982-02-01) 1 February 1982 (age 42) Right Right-arm off break Overseas
-- Ryan Wiggins Barbados (1984-01-30) 30 January 1984 (age 40) Right Right-arm off break
Dwayne Smith Barbados (1983-04-12) 12 April 1983 (age 41) Right Right-arm medium
All-rounders
1 Raymon Reifer Barbados (1991-05-11) 11 May 1991 (age 33) Left Left-arm medium-fast
50 Christopher Barnwell Guyana (1987-01-06) 6 January 1987 (age 37) Right Right-arm medium-fast
55 Kieron Pollard Trinidad and Tobago (1987-05-12) 12 May 1987 (age 37) Right Right-arm medium-fast Captain
-- Imran Khan Trinidad and Tobago (1984-06-06) 6 June 1984 (age 40) Right Leg-break googly
Shamar Springer Barbados (1997-11-26) 26 November 1997 (age 27) Right Right-arm medium-fast
Wicket-keepers
78 Nicholas Pooran Trinidad and Tobago (1995-10-02) 2 October 1995 (age 29) Left Right-arm medium
-- Akeem Dodson United States (1987-09-06) 6 September 1987 (age 37) Left
Bowlers
5 Tino Best Barbados (1981-08-26) 26 August 1981 (age 43) Right Right-arm fast
-- Akeal Hosein Trinidad and Tobago (1993-04-24) 24 April 1993 (age 31) Left Left-arm Orthodox
14 Ravi Rampaul Trinidad and Tobago (1985-10-15) 15 October 1985 (age 39) Left Right-arm fast
51 Damion Jacobs Jamaica (1985-02-15) 15 February 1985 (age 39) Right Right-arm legbreak
98 Wayne Parnell South Africa (1989-07-30) 30 July 1989 (age 35) Left Left-arm medium-fast Overseas
47 Wahab Riaz Pakistan (1985-06-28) 28 June 1985 (age 39) Left Left-arm fast Overseas

References

  1. ^ "Nabi, Rashid get taken in 2017 CPL draft". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2017-03-26.
  2. ^ "Afridi top pick at Caribbean Premier League draft". Cricinfo. ESPN. 6 February 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2015.