The 23rd match of the CPL 2020 was played between Trinbago Knight Riders and St Kitts and Nevis Patriots on September 2, Wednesday at Brian Lara Stadium, Tarouba, Trinidad.
St Kitts and Nevis Patriots captain Rayad Emrit won the toss and chose to field first. Kieron Pollard was not playing in this match for Trinbago Knight Riders. Therefore Dwayne Bravo was the captain for Trinbago Knight Riders in this match. Lendl Simmons opened the inning for Trinbago Knight Riders and played beautiful inning of 96 runs in 63 balls. Colin Munro got retired hurt on just 9 runs. Darren Bravo helped team to put good total on board and made 36 runs. Trinbago Knight Riders made 174 runs in their 20 over. Dominic Drakes took 2 wickets for St Kitts while Sheldon Cottrell also took 1 wicket.
It was a target of 175 runs for St Kitts to win the match. Evin Lewis and Chris Lynn opened the inning for St Kitts and Lewis got out early on just 5 runs. Chris Lynn made a partnership of 57 runs for the 2nd wicket with Joshua Da Silva. Da Silva made 29 while Chris Lynn made 34 runs for St Kitts. Ben Dunk also got out early on just 9 runs to Sikandar Raza. Wicket-keeper batsman Denesh Ramdin also got out on just 4 runs. Captain Emrit made not out 13 runs in 10 balls but St Kitts and Nevis Patriots could manage only 115 runs in their 20 over. Sikandar Raza took most 3 wickets for Trinbago Knight Riders. Trinbago Knight Riders defeated St Kitts and Nevis Patriots by 59 runs. Lendl Simmons was selected as player of the match for his brilliant batting performance of 96 runs in the match. The winning streak continued for Trinbago Knight Riders in CPL 2020.