{"id":99276,"date":"2025-08-28T19:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/99276\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T19:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:09:08","slug":"cpl-2025-results-alex-hales-guides-trinbago-knight-riders-past-antigua-barbuda-falcons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/99276\/","title":{"rendered":"CPL 2025 results: Alex Hales guides Trinbago Knight Riders past Antigua &#038; Barbuda Falcons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s T20 World Cup-winning opener Alex Hales made an unbeaten 55 to guide Trinbago Knight Riders to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-226830\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eight-wicket victory<\/a> over Antigua &amp; Barbuda Falcons in the Caribbean Premier League. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hales hit six fours in his 46-ball knock and shared 87 for the second wicket with Keacy Carty (60 off 45) and 38 with Nicholas Pooran (23* off 11) as Knight Riders chased 147 with eight balls to spare. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hales is third on the all-time run-scorers list with 13,931 &#8211; leaving him 631 behind the retired Chris Gayle, who has a record 14,562. Kieron Pollard, who is still active, is second on the list with 13,981.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The record is in both their grasps though, with Hales having another six guaranteed CPL matches and a contract for December&#8217;s International League T20 in the United Arab Emirates. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier, Falcons were restricted to 146-7, after being reduced to 0-2 by Mohammad Amir in the first over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amir now has 171 T20 wickets in the powerplay, just 18 behind David Willey, who has a record 189 dismissals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The result lifts Knight Riders to second with three wins in four games, while Falcons remain top but they have played seven matches. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England&#8217;s T20 World Cup-winning opener Alex Hales made an unbeaten 55 to guide Trinbago Knight Riders to an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-99276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}