Knight Riders face Zouks in CPL eliminator

The winner of this game will go on to face the loser of last evening’s Playoff One between Guyana Amazon Warriors and Jamaica Tallawahs for a place in Sunday’s finale. The losing side is done for another year.

The Knight Riders and Zouks split their head-to-head battle in the league with the Zouks shocking their rivals on their home ground at the Queen’s Park Oval while Dwayne Bravo’s men got revenge at the Darren Sammy Stadium in St Lucia.

The in-form Colin Munro of the Knight Riders believes success or failure is dependent on the players performing somewhere close to their potential. If that happens he is confident that they will run out winners.

“I think we just need to ask more of the same in terms of players stepping up, senior guys stepping up. It is nice looking back at the whole tournament with people stepping up in different situations.

So if we got three or four players playing to their potential our team is pretty dynamic.” The Knight Riders had a mixed start to the tournament in their home leg in Trinidad, but they came back from that to make the knockout stages. They didn’t panic and Munro says that is indicative of his side.

“We all have that calm nature about us. Obviously it is a mustwin game but at the end of the day it is a game of cricket and we are approaching every game like that after having a not great home leg. The experience in our group in terms of tournaments that we have won and great coaching staff we will be nice and relaxed and just go out there and express ourselves as best as we can.” Munro says that the Zouks are a dangerous side who should be respected.

The Zouks have won five of their last six games so are the form team of Hero CPL right now, but that one loss came against the Knight Riders. Despite this, Shane Watson of the Zouks feels his team are in a really good place heading into this match.

“We have really got on a really good run. Since we went home to St Lucia we have played some really good cricket. It is knockout cricket and you have to bring your best but we have certainly got lots of confidence from our last six games.”