Trinbago scored 180, Narine made 53, and the rain gave it to Jamaica by seven
Jamaica Kingsmen were seven runs above the DLS par score when the second shower ended the night at Queen’s Park Oval. Sunil Narine’s second fifty in 24 hours counted for nothing.
Aug 30, 2026
Trinbago Knight Riders scored 180 at Queen’s Park Oval on Saturday, 29 August, and lost. Not to a chase that overhauled them, but to a clock and a rain radar. Jamaica Kingsmen were 127 for 3 after 14.4 overs when the second shower arrived, seven runs clear of the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern par score of 120, and when the cut-off for a restart passed at 11.35pm that was the match.
Narine has had the week of his year and one win to show for it
Sunil Narine made 53 off 24 balls, six fours and three sixes, before Keemo Paul had him slicing to Odean Smith at mid-off. It was his second half-century in under 24 hours. On 28 August, against Barbados Tridents, he hit 55 off 33 with six sixes, his first fifty in T20 cricket since May 2024, and took 2 for 14 on the same evening.
Two nights before that, on 26 August, he became the second bowler in T20 history to reach 650 wickets, trapping John Campbell lbw against Saint Lucia Kings. Only Rashid Khan has more.
None of it counted for much here. Narine bowled 2.4 overs for 20 without taking a wicket, and 180 for 6 turned out to be a total TKR could not defend against a scoreboard.
Three fifties and one bad over
Nicholas Pooran finished unbeaten on 60, reaching his fifty off 32 balls. Colin Munro made 52 off 42. Three men past fifty in the same innings usually settles a T20, and for thirteen overs it looked like it had.
Then Vitel Lawes bowled the 14th. He removed Munro, Kieron Pollard and Tromp without conceding a run, a triple-wicket maiden and the best over any Jamaica bowler has produced this season. Lawes finished with 3 for 29. Hunain Shah took two more in the 19th to end with 2 for 27, and TKR’s last seven overs were nothing like their first thirteen.
The chase that only had to stay ahead
Kirk McKenzie and Keacy Carty took 54 off the powerplay for the loss of one wicket. McKenzie went for 30 from 25, caught at long-off. Carty made 42 from 33 before Usman Tariq got him with a low full toss, the sort of dismissal that looks careless and is mostly just awkward to face.
That left Saim Ayub and Rovman Powell with the least glamorous job in T20 cricket: keep the scoreboard moving and stay on the right side of a number nobody in the ground can see. Ayub finished 24 not out from 18, Powell 5 not out. When the rain came back before the last five overs, they were seven ahead. Jyd Goolie’s 2 for 30 was the best of TKR’s bowling.
Jamaica have their measure
This is the second time Jamaica have beaten Trinbago this season. The first came at Sabina Park on 15 August, by five wickets with eight balls to spare. TKR had only stopped a three-match losing run the night before this game, so a defeat that arrived by par score rather than by cricket will sit worse than a straight one.
Rain-shortened T20 matches are settled by a table most viewers never see and few players carry in their heads. Jamaica played this one properly. They knew where par sat, they stayed above it, and they took two points off a side that had scored 180.