St Kitts and Nevis Patriots
Personnel | |
---|---|
Captain | Chris Gayle |
Owner | Mohammad Ansari, Uday Nayak, Nirvan Veerasamy |
Team information | |
Colours | red, black, green |
Founded | 2015 |
Home ground | Warner Park, Basseterre |
Capacity | 10,000 |
Official website: | http://www.sknpatriots.com |
The St Kitts and Nevis Patriots are a Caribbean Premier League (CPL) cricket franchise based in Saint Kitts and Nevis, and participated in the competition for the first time in 2015. The team will play its home games at Warner Park, Basseterre, located on Saint Kitts, and, like the league's other franchises, draw the majority of its players from West Indian domestic teams.
The league's first expansion team, the new franchise was announced on 27 January 2015, supported by the Saint Kitts and Nevis government, as well as the local business community.[1] During the 2014 CPL tournament, Warner Park hosted nine matches, played over 10 days in August and accompanied by several carnivals and other entertainments. The venue hosted the final six group-stage matches, and then the finals series, comprising two semi-finals and the final between the Barbados Tridents and the Guyana Amazon Warriors.[2]
The Saint Kitts and Nevis franchise effectively replaces the Antigua Hawksbills franchise (based in Antigua and Barbuda), although it is intended that the Hawksbills franchise will be revived at a later date, with the CPL consequently featuring seven teams rather than six.[3] The Hawksbills were primarily removed from the competition in order to make scheduling easier, though their poor results and lack of a private owner also contributing to their removal.[4] Saint Kitts and Nevis nominated four previous Hawksbills players – Justin Athanaze, Carlos Brathwaite, Orlando Peters, and Devon Thomas – as their "retained players" prior to the 2015 CPL Draft.[5] South African Eric Simons, formerly senior coach of the Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League (IPL) was confirmed as the franchise's inaugural coach in early February 2015.[6]
Squad
The Patriots' inaugural 15-man squad was assembled at the 2015 CPL Draft. Pakistani Shahid Afridi was the franchise's top pick. The four retained players for 2015 (nominated by the franchise prior to the draft) are marked with an asterisk:[7]
Players with international caps are listed in bold.
2017 Patriots Squad
No. | Name[8] | Nat | Birth date | Batting style | Bowling style | Notes |
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Batsmen | ||||||
Sharmarh Brooks | 1 October 1988 | Right | Right-arm Legbreak | |||
Nikhil Dutta | 13 October 1994 | Right | Right-arm off-break | ICC Americas rookie | ||
17 | Evin Lewis | 27 December 1991 | Left | n/a | ||
54 | Chris Gayle | 21 September 1979 | Left | Right-arm Offbreak | Captain | |
-- | Brandon King | 16 December 1994 | Right | n/a | ||
Wicket-Keepers | ||||||
Devon Thomas | 12 November 1989 | left | Wicket-keeper | |||
All-Rounders | ||||||
-- | Mohammad Nabi | 3 March 1985 | Right | Right-arm off-break | International franchise player | |
78 | Jonathan Carter | 16 November 1987 | Left | Right-arm medium | ||
-- | Chris Morris | 30 April 1987 | Right | Right-arm medium-fast | International franchise player | |
1 | Mohammad Hafeez | 17 October 1980 | Right | Right-arm off-break | International franchise player, replacement for Ben Cutting | |
-- | Carlos Brathwaite | 18 July 1988 | Right | Right-arm fast-medium | ||
Fabian Allen | 7 May 1995 | Right | Left-arm slow | |||
Fast-bowlers | ||||||
-- | Sheldon Cotterell | 19 August 1989 | Right | Left-arm fast-medium | ||
8 | Alzarri Joseph | 20 November 1996 | Right | Right-arm Fast | ||
32 | Hasan Ali | 7 February 1994 | Right | Right-arm medium-fast | International franchise player, replacement for Kieran Powell | |
-- | Jeremiah Louis | 12 March 1996 | Right | Right-arm medium-fast | ||
Spinners | ||||||
77 | Samuel Badree | 8 March 1981 | Right | Right-arm Legbreak | ||
90 | Tabraiz Shamsi | 18 February 1990 | Right | Left-arm chinaman | International franchise player |
Franchise & Support Staff
- Team Owners: Uday Nayak, Mohammed Ansari, and Nirvan Veerasamy
- Chief Operating Officer: Richard Berridge
- Head Coach: Phil Simmons
- Trainer & Masseur: Virgil Browne
See also
- Leeward Islands cricket team
- Nevis cricket team
- Saint Kitts cricket team
References
- ↑ "St Kitts and Nevis join CPL with new Franchise team" – CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
- ↑ (12 March 2014). "Warner Park in St Kitts to host CPL finals" – Jamaica Observer. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
- ↑ (2 February 2015). "New franchise to replace Hawksbills in CPL 2015" – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
- ↑ Garth Wattley (1 February 2015). "Too many: CPL official explains absence of Hawksbills" – Trinidad Express. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
- ↑ (2 February 2015). "Hawksbills dropped for CPL 2015" – cricbuzz. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
- ↑ (4 February 2015)> "Eric Simons to Coach St. Kitts-Nevis CPL Team" – SKNVibes. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ↑ (6 February 2015). "Afridi top pick at Caribbean Premier League draft" – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ↑ "Caribbean Premier League squads finalised". Cricinfo. ESPN. 6 June 2013. Retrieved 9 June 2013.