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New Zealand im­port Col­in Munro be­lieves his team Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers can stop a red hot St Lu­cia Zouks in their 2016 Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) play-offs but the se­nior play­ers must step up to the chal­lenge.

TKR end­ed fourth in the pre­lims of the tour­na­ment and will now play the third place St Lu­cia Zouks at Warn­er Park in St Kitts to­mor­row night at 7pm.

Munro who has scored 376 runs at an av­er­age of 40.75 with a cen­tu­ry and three half cen­turies in the tour­na­ment so far said: "I think we just need to ask more of the same in terms of play­ers step­ping up, se­nior guys step­ping up. It is nice look­ing back at the whole tour­na­ment with peo­ple step­ping up in dif­fer­ent sit­u­a­tions. So if we got three or four play­ers play­ing to their po­ten­tial, our team is pret­ty dy­nam­ic."

The Knight Rid­ers had a mixed start to the tour­na­ment in their home leg in Trinidad, but they came back from that to make the knock­out stages. They didn't pan­ic and Munro says that is in­dica­tive of his side.

"We all have that calm na­ture about us. Ob­vi­ous­ly it is a must win game but at the end of the day it is a game of crick­et and we are ap­proach­ing every game like that af­ter hav­ing a not great home leg. The ex­pe­ri­ence in our group in terms of tour­na­ments that we have won and great coach­ing staff we will be nice and re­laxed and just go out there and ex­press our­selves as best as we can."

The record be­tween these teams is one win each and Munro says that the Zouks are a dan­ger­ous side who should be re­spect­ed.

"You go through their bat­ting line up and you get a wick­et and you have Mike Hussey com­ing in and you get an­oth­er wick­et and you have David Miller com­ing in! They have bat­ters all the way down. There are some ar­eas where we can work to get the back­up bowl­ing right and if we can get that right we have shown that we can chase down to­tals and if we set to­tals we can get a lot of runs on the board."

The Zouks have won five of their last six games so re­main the form team of Hero CPL right now, but that one loss came against TKR. De­spite this, Shane Wat­son of the Zouks feels his team are in a re­al­ly good place head­ing in­to this must win match.

Wat­son is not un­der­es­ti­mat­ing the TKR team how­ev­er. "They have matched up re­al­ly well against us. The last time we played against them in St Lu­cia, Umar Ak­mal played an in­cred­i­ble in­nings. They have cer­tain­ly got some very dan­ger­ous play­ers like Hashim Am­la who is back at the top of the or­der. We are cer­tain­ly go­ing to have to be at our very best be­cause TKR have a re­al­ly well bal­anced team with world class play­ers through­out. We played very well against them in Trinidad at the start of the tour­na­ment so we need to bring that again."