By Fazeer Mohammed
(Trinidad Express) Officials of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) will never admit it but all that seething rage and unrestrained cussing triggered by last Tuesday night’s bizarre finish at the Guyana National Stadium would have been music to their ears.
Isn’t it obvious why? To get the CPL at the top of the 7 p.m. news and then on the front pages the next day means that the Trinidad and Tobago public, even those—maybe especially those—who could care less about West Indies cricket, have attached themselves emotionally and unconditionally to the Trinbago Knight Riders.
And while it is unlikely that we will ever get a satisfactory explanation for the events which contributed to TKR’s elimination at the hand of the Barbados Royals, the depth of feeling here over the curious timing for the return of power to the floodlight tower at Providence confirms that this 21st century franchise format of the centuries-old game is already woven into the fabric of the T&T sporting tapestry.
