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T&T Prime Minister congratulates TKR on their fourth CPL title
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Trinidad and Tobago Knight Riders have won their fourth championship. Twitter
By Azad Ali
Trinidad and Tobago
Prime Minister Dr. Keith
Rowley has congratulated
the Trinidad and Tobago
Knight Riders (TKR) on
their remarkable achievement
by winning their historic
fourth championship
title on Thursday, Sept. 10 at
the Brian Lara Cricket Stadium
in South Trinidad.
The TKR defeated the St.
Lucia Zouks in the final by
two wickets.
In a video posted on social
media, Dr. Rowley said, “My
heartiest congratulations to
the TKR. Amazing champions
once again and I want to
congratulate all the organizers
of this tournament, both
local and international! And
my congratulations goes too
to Shah Rukh Khan (Bollywood
mega star) wherever
you are, we’ve won again.”
Dr. Rowley called the
tournament “a pretty good
one.”
“It didn’t have the best of
every component but it had
a lot of other good cricket
and it is a good lifter of our
spirits here in Trinidad and
Tobago,” he said. “And our
country was on show for the
last three and half weeks
thereabout, and I think everything
went very well from
that standpoint.”
TKR’s owner Shah Rukh
Khan also lauded players
such a Lendl Simmons, Darren
Bravo, Captain Kieron
Pollard and Dwayne Bravo
as well as TKR’s coach,
Brendon McCallum after
TKR clinched their fourth
title.
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