In a Caribbean Premier League (CPL) game on Sunday, Sunil Narine’s team’s poor overs-rate resulted in Trinbago Knight Riders becoming the first cricket team to receive a red card. Sunil Narine bore the consequences for this incident.
Narine recipient red card in CPL: This season, the CPL’s organizers implemented several measures to tackle the problem of slow over rates. One of these measures encompassed the introduction of a red card for a fielding side discovered to be behind schedule at the start of an innings.
The penalty entails a team losing a captain’s choice player and requiring them to have six fielders inside the circle.
Slow overrates have consistently plagued the game, often leading to matches exceeding their designated duration.
The International Cricket Council (ICC), which oversees the World Test Championship, now imposes fines on international teams found to be falling behind schedule in any of the three formats of the game.
In the final over of their game against the St. Kitts & Nevis Patriots, the Knight Riders were down to 10 players, yet they still won by six wickets, earning their first win in three games.
Before being replaced for the Patriots’ last over, in which 18 runs were scored, Narine had completed his four assigned overs with figures of 24-3.
At Warner Park in Basseterre, Nicholas Pooran’s 61 off 32 balls provided the Knight Riders with the platform for a successful chase before captain Kieron Pollard (37) and Andre Russell (23) brought them home with 17 balls left. Pollard disapproved of the overs-rate fine.
Further, It will undo the hard work that everyone has put in, he admitted. “We are treat like pawns and will act according to instructions.”
However, “We’ll play as quickly as we can. Receiving fines for a mere 30 to 45 seconds in a competition like this is indeed absurd.