6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6: Star player from Sanjiv Goenka’s LSG EXPLODES for Shah Rukh Khan’s team, video goes viral

Shah Rukh Khan's Trinibago Knight Riders hammered Antigua and Barbuda Falcons by nine wickets in the CPL 2025 Eliminator match.

Written by: Devadyuti Das Edited by: Devadyuti Das

Published: September 17, 2025, 1:05 PM IST

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Nicholas Pooran was retained by Sanjiv Goenka's LSG for Rs 21 crore. (Photo: IANS)

The Caribbean Premier League (CPL) 2025 season is down to the Playoffs stages and the stakes can’t be more higher. Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan owned Trinbago Knight Riders took on Antigua and Barbuda Falcons in CPL 2025 Eliminator match in Providence on Wednesday.

Former CPL champions TKR blazed into Qualifier 2 with a massive nine-wicket win over the Falcons, chasing down 168 to win with more than 2 overs to spare. The star of TKR win was their captain and top batter from Sanjiv Goenka’s Lucknow Super Giants – Nicholas Pooran. Pooran completed 200 sixes in CPL en route to smashing eight maximums in his score of 90 not out off 53 balls.

Pooran put on 143 runs for the second wicket with opener Alex Hales, who remained unbeaten on 54 off 40 balls with three sixes and three fours.

WATCH Nicholas Pooran smash a flurry of sixes for Trinbago Knight Riders in CPL 2025 Eliminator HERE…

Cometh the hour, cometh the man! 🙌

Nicky P stands up for TKR! 🇹🇹#CPL25 #CricketPlayedLouder#BiggestPartyInSport #TKRvABF #RepublicBank pic.twitter.com/ZcHyugJvtV

— CPL T20 (@CPL) September 17, 2025

Earlier, the Falcons had a brilliant partnership of 108 between Andries Gous and Amir Jangoo but a late flurry of wickets saw the Knight Riders keep them to a total they could chase. The stars for the Trinidadian franchise were Nicholas Pooran and Alex Hales who both made fifties as the Knight Riders won with relative ease. ​

“In big games, players try to be in the moment as much as possible, and when some decisions don’t go your way, you can feel a bit emotional. Today was tough to keep emotions in check. I apologize to the umpire at the end of the game, but I’m just really happy that we could get the win,” Pooran said at the post-match presentation.

“It was a win in the hard work throughout the tournament. I’ve been digging deep throughout the innings, and today, getting the opportunity to bat three, and also asking to bat at number two, I had to lead from the front. That’s what we keep speaking about: taking responsibility. I could have gotten out first ball, but the game is all about being brave and smart. Today was just our day,” he added.

Pooran had been retained by Sanjiv Goenka’s LSG for Rs 21 crore ahead of the IPL 2025 mega auction last year. He had a strike-rate of over 196 in IPL 2025 season with 524 runs with 5 fifties in 14 matches.

In the Falcons innings, Jangoo and Gous both fell within the space of two balls shortly after passing their fifties. Both batters fell to the bowling of Usman Tariq who was once again miserly with his bowling, claiming 2/19 off his four overs. The Falcons went from 129/1 with four overs to go to 161/8 at the end of their innings as Saurabh Netravalkar and Andre Russell picked up wickets at the death.

The Falcons would have been disappointed to not post a bigger target given the platform they had set. However, when Colin Munro, the Knight Riders leading run scorer going into this match, fell early to the bowling of Rahkeem Cornwall there was hope that they could claim victory. But from the point of the Munro wicket to the end of the match it was the Hales and Pooran show as the two made light work of the Falcons total.

​​No Falcons bowler found a way to keep the scoring under control by the halfway stage of the chase the equation had come down to just over a run a ball needed. With the pressure of the big game fading Hales and Pooran controlled the chase brilliantly to keep their dreams of a first CPL title since 2020 alive.

​​Pooran finished on 90 and Hales on 54 with both batters not out at the end of the innings in an unbroken second wicket partnership worth 143. These two players showing this sort of form as the knockout stages gets underway is a real boost for the Knight Riders who came into this game in the back of three consecutive losses.

​​This loss means the Falcons will head home having made the knockout stages for the first time in their history. The Knight Riders will now face the loser of the Qualifier 1 match between Guyana Amazon Warriors and Saint Lucia Kings which takes place at the Guyana National Stadium in Providence on Wednesday night.