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Summer time in the Caribbean is also the season for the Caribbean Premier League T20 tournament. Anyone interested can visit the link for videos of interviews and match highlights. 

As my international readers may not know what cricket is about, in this version of the game there are 20 overs (6 balls make an over) and the objective is to score the most runs. The bowler bowls at a batsman. There are two at each end of the pitch (the grassless square where the ball is bowled). The batsman has to hit the ball far enough and run to the other end of the pitch while the other batsman runs to his opposite end. That's one run. If they do it twice, it is 2 runs. Now, the rest of the field (around the square) has grass and is encircled by a rope. Any balls going to the rope is 4 runs and the batsmen do not have to move. If the batsman hits the ball over the boundary, it is 6 runs. He does not have to move. 

Now the object of the  bowler is to get the batsman out. He has to hit the stumps (called wickets)  or cause someone in the field to catch the ball after the batsman hits it. It cannot touch the ground. It must be a straight catch. There is also another way for a batsman to get out, called "lbw", which is best explained by a cricket officianado.

This year, there have been some tremendous scores and wonderful performances. I will share a couple with you, beginning with the highlights of the Barbados Tridents first match - and they won against the Guyana Amazon Warriors. Two young cricketers shone like diamonds in the match. Raymon Reifer (a bowler) got a five-wicket haul and Shai Hope scored 88 runs. I just love the graphics!

              Barbados Tridents' Raymon Reifer grabs five wickets in the team's first win in the Hero CPL 2018

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Another really brilliant youngster is Guyana Warriors' Shimron Hetmyer who blazed a century (100 runs) in a match against the Jamaica Tallawahs (JTs). 

                                 Young Shimron Hetmyer celebrates during one of the Hero CPL 2018 matches

The "old Guard" Kieron Pollard of the St. Lucia Stars and Andre Russell, captain of the JTs were also scoring 100 runs this season. 

So guys enjoy your moment in time for another year.

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    Here's to #CricketPlayedLouder!