Barbados Tridents vs. Kings XI Punjab: CLT20 Date, Live Stream, TV Info, Preview

Barbados Tridents open their Champions League Twenty20 group stage campaign against Kings XI Punjab in Mohali.

With the hosts having played already in this year’s CLT20 and won their opening game, they will be riding high in spite of some injury problems.

Venue: Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh

Date: Saturday, September 20

Start time: 8 p.m. local time, 3:30 p.m. BST

Live on: STAR Sports 1 (India), Ten Sports/PTV Sports (Pakistan), SuperSport (South Africa), Eurosport (UK/Europe), Sky Sports (New Zealand), Network Ten/Fox (Australia), Star Cricket (Sri Lanka), Star Cricket (Bangladesh), ESPN (USA and Caribbean), Willow Cricket (USA).

Weather: According to Weather.com, Mohali is in for some scattered thunderstorms, with temperatures reaching highs of 32 degrees Celsius.

Overview

These teams find themselves in Group B of the CLT20, having both qualified for the group stage automatically.

For Barbados, this game is their first ever in the competition and comes after they won the Caribbean Premier League T20 earlier this year.

However, the Tridents will be without domestic stars Kieron Pollard and Dwayne Smith, who both opted to play for their Indian Premier League sides instead.

That weakens their squad significantly, but with the likes of James Franklin, Neil McKenzie and Ravi Rampaul still at their disposal, they should be a tough team to face.

For Kings XI Punjab, their group-stage campaign got underway in the best possible way with victory by five wickets over the Hobart Hurricanes.

Punjab restricted the Hurricanes to 144-6 from their 20 overs, then knocked off their target in the 18th over after good knocks from Glenn Maxwell, George Bailey and Thisara Perera.

Kings XI will be without Australian Mitchell Johnson—possibly for the entire tournament—and while that leaves their bowling a little thin, they are still going to be tough to beat.

Team News

Barbados Tridents (from): Rayad Emrit (capt), Jonathan Carter, Elton Chigumbura, Shane Dowrich, James Franklin, Jason Holder, Akeal Hosein, Neil McKenzie, Kyle Mayers, Jeevan Mendis, Dilshan Munaweera, Ashley Nurse, William Perkins, Ravi Rampaul, Raymon Reifer.

Kings XI Punjab (from): George Bailey (capt), Anureet Singh, Parvinder Awana, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Rishi Dhawan, Mitchell Johnson, Karanveer Singh, Mandeep Singh, Glenn Maxwell, David Miller, Akshar Patel, Thisara Perera, Wriddhiman Saha, Virender Sehwag, Manan Vohra.

Key Players

Jason Holder

A very exciting bowling prospect for the West Indies, much will be expected of Jason Holder in this game. If the Tridents are to restrict their opponents with the bat, Holder will need to be on form.

Glenn Maxwell

Still one of the most explosive batsmen in the T20 format, Australian Glenn Maxwell started well with 43 in Kings XI’s first match of the CLT20.

If he is able to get his eye in and start hitting boundaries, it could be a long night for Barbados.