South African all-rounder JP Du­miny blast­ed a fastest-ever Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League half-cen­tu­ry, while young spin­ner Hay­den Walsh Jr bagged a ca­reer-best T20 haul to steer the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents to a 63-run win over the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers at the Kens­ing­ton Oval in Bar­ba­dos last night.

Du­miny hit a blis­ter­ing 20-ball 65, in­clud­ing his fifty off just 15 balls, to guide the Tri­dents to 192-5, be­fore Walsh took five wick­ets for just 19 runs, the best CPL haul this sea­son as well, as TKR were blitzed out for just 129.

The re­sult cre­at­ed an­oth­er up­heaval in the low­er half of the six-team ta­ble, as while TKR re­mained sec­ond with nine points af­ter two loss­es and a no-re­sult in their last three match­es, the Tri­dents jumped up in­to fourth spot with six points, two be­hind the St Kitts Nevis Pa­tri­ots. The St Lu­cia Zouks slipped down to fifth spot while the Ja­maica Tallawahs re­mained on the bot­tom with four points.

The TKR now head back home for two match­es against the War­riors and Tri­dents with the wrong mo­men­tum af­ter start­ing the sea­son with four straight wins. Tri­dents mean­while pre­pare for a week­end home-stand against the Pa­tri­ots and the Zouks.

Last night, the com­bi­na­tion of Du­miny and Walsh just proved too much for TKR. But af­ter Du­miny's knock lift­ed his Tri­dents team­mates and the fans, it was leg-break spe­cial­ist Walsh who took over.

Brought on in the ninth over, Walsh first bowled the ex­pe­ri­enced De­nesh Ramdin for 11 off his third ball as TKR slid to 75-4.

His next over, the 11th of the in­nings, was even bet­ter. He first got the prized scalp of TKR skip­per Kieron Pol­lard for just 3, caught in the deep by op­po­site num­ber Ja­son Hold­er, who then sprint­ed around the bound­ary and urged the home fans to cheer them to vic­to­ry. In the next ball, Jim­my Nee­sham played back to Walsh's goo­gly and when it spun and bounced awk­ward­ly, could not get his bat out the way, edged it and was caught by Ash­ley Nurse at slip for a duck. Walsh missed the hat­trick in the next ball but got Seekkuge Prasan­na with the next one, caught at deep square leg by Alex Hales, al­so with­out scor­ing.

At that junc­ture, Walsh had bowled two overs and tak­en four wick­ets for just four runs. He was not done yet though, as he got an­oth­er prized scalp in top­scor­er Dar­ren Bra­vo (28) in his fi­nal over to com­plete his first-ever five-for haul and the first such haul in the CPL this sea­son.

The door for Walsh's ef­fort had been opened when Tri­dents got just the start they need­ed af­ter they re­moved the dan­ger­ous Sunil Nar­ine and in-form Lendl Sim­mons in­side the Pow­er Play overs. Nar­ine was bowled by Hold­er for 19 while Sim­mons cut Har­ry Gur­ney straight in­to the hands of Hay­den Walsh at back­ward point as TKR slumped to 44-2.

TKR found scor­ing hard to come by af­ter that but when Walsh came on in the ninth over to pro­duce his spin bowl­ing blitz they had no an­swer.

Ear­li­er, Du­miny gave Tri­dents the late im­pe­tus they need­ed with his blis­ter­ing half-cen­tu­ry af­ter they strug­gled to 116 for three af­ter 15 overs, de­spite a cen­tu­ry open­ing stand from Jonathan Carter and John­son Charles.

Charles hit 58 off 39 balls, in­clud­ing eight fours, while Carter, dropped by Khary Pierre at deep mid­wick­et off leg-break spe­cial­ist Pras­sana when he was on­ly 18, took his bat to a 46-ball 51.

Cham­pi­on TKR spin­ner Nar­ine fi­nal­ly made the break­through in the 14th over when he got Carter to hole out to Munro at deep mid­wick­et as Tri­dents lost their first wick­et with 110 on the board.

Pierre then made up for the ear­li­er drop by re­mov­ing Charles and Alex Hales (1) in the next over, both caught in the deep, as the Tri­dents slipped to 116-3.

Nar­ine and Pierre then bowled two tight overs be­fore Du­miny broke the shack­les. He hit pac­er Ali Khan for three mas­sive max­i­mums and a four in the 18th over, which brought 24 runs, then blast­ed Nee­sham for three fours and two six­es in a 25-run 19th over to push the Tri­dents to 178. Du­miny, whose knocked over­all knocked was laced with four fours and sev­en six­es, en­tered the CPL record books in that Nee­sham over when he blast­ed the medi­um-pac­er over long-off for a six.

But Pol­lard bowled a good come­back last over in which he re­moved Du­miny and op­po­site num­ber Hold­er for a duck to keep the Tri­dents from reach­ing the 200 mark. By then, how­ev­er, the Tri­dents had the to­tal they need­ed for a much-need­ed win.

SUM­MARISED SCORES:

BAR­BA­DOS TRI­DENTS 192-5 (20) (JP Du­miny 65, John­son Charles 58, Jonathan Carter 51, Khary Pierre 2/24, Kieron Pol­lard 2/38) v TRIN­BA­GO KNIGHT RID­ERS 129 all out (17.4) (Dar­ren Bra­vo 28, Col­in Munro 23, Hay­den Walsh 5/19, JP Du­miny 2/24)

Re­sult: BAR­BA­DOS TRI­DENTS WON BY 63 RUNS

Man-of-the-match: JP Du­miny (BT)