Nicholas Pooran created a stir by hitting sixes, led the team to victory with another stormy century in CPL, broke this record

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|30-09-2024

Another strong attack from Nicholas Pooran has been seen in CPL 2024. He has written a stormy story of his another century on the CPL pitch. On September 29, against Guyana Amazon Warriors, he hit sixes one after the other, created a storm of runs and in doing so, gave a big victory to his team Trinbago Knight Riders. Nicholas Pooran not only scored a century or led the team to victory but also broke a record for Trinbago Knight Riders.

In the match, Trinbago Knight Riders batted first, whose first wicket fell for just 1 run but the real game started after that because Nicholas Pooran had come to the crease. As soon as Nicholas Pooran arrived, he started scoring runs, a sight which everyone enjoyed to the fullest. Even Jason Roy, who was standing with him at the wicket.

Nicholas Pooran broke the record of partnership with Jason Roy

Nicholas Pooran and Jason Roy made a partnership of 152 runs for the second wicket, which is a new record for the highest partnership for any wicket for Trinbago Knight Riders in T20. Earlier this record was in the name of Dwayne Bravo and Hashim Amla, who had added 150 runs.

Puran's century in 59 balls, 8 sixes and 9 fours

Jason Roy scored only 34 runs in the 152-run partnership with Nicholas Pooran. Even after Roy was out, Nicholas's bat continued to rain. Facing 59 balls, he scored 109 runs, which included 8 sixes and 9 fours. This was Nicholas Pooran's first century in CPL 2024 and third century in his entire CPL career.

Nicholas's wicket fell in the 17th over, after which no other batsman did anything special. Captain Kieron Pollard remained unbeaten after scoring 19 runs. Trinbago Knight Riders scored 211 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs.

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