Guyana Ama­zon War­riors com­plet­ed a six wick­et win and the dou­ble against the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers as the two sides played out a dress re­hearsal ahead of Wednes­day night’s Qual­i­fi­er 1.

The Ama­zon War­riors won the toss and opt­ed to field first and the de­ci­sion went in their favour as a Knight Rid­ers side shorn of Nicholas Pooran, An­dre Rus­sell and Sunil Nar­ine post­ed a com­pet­i­tive 176/8.

The Ama­zon War­riors timed their chase per­fect­ly in re­ply, Shai Hope car­ried on his good form with an un­beat­en 54 to en­sure the game was won with 10 balls to spare.

Ear­li­er on a much changed Knight Rid­ers got off to a bad start when Mar­tin Gup­til was run out for one but Mark Deyal’s quick fire 37 from 20 balls en­sured the Knight Rid­ers were able to post a healthy 49/2 by the end of the Pow­er­Play.

Chad­wick Wal­ton and Kea­cy Car­ty put on a 59 run part­ner­ship be­fore Im­ran Tahir cleaned up Wal­ton for 25.

How­ev­er, that mere­ly sig­nalled the mo­ment for Car­ty to press the ac­cel­er­a­tor. He took an ex­treme lik­ing to Odean Smith, tak­ing him for 26 runs in the 15th over to bring up his half cen­tu­ry.

Car­ty was to go on to make a bril­liant­ly con­struct­ed 83 be­fore he was even­tu­al­ly stumped. That wick­et was one of three in the 19th over as Im­ran Tahir halt­ed the Knight Rid­ers mo­men­tum.

The Knights Rid­ers were to even­tu­al­ly post 176, a to­tal that gave their bowlers some­thing to work with.

In re­ply the Ama­zon War­riors got off to the best pos­si­ble start in the Pow­er­Play. Odean Smith part­nered Saim Ayub and the pair reached 56/0 at the end of six overs but Ayub was to fall im­me­di­ate­ly af­ter the field­ing re­stric­tions were lift­ed, sky­ing a de­liv­ery from Akeal Ho­sein.

Odean Smith was to go on to make his best score of the 2023 Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) – ben­e­fit­ting from three drops on his way to a sparkling 44, Smith’s knock en­sured the War­riors on­ly need­ed 60 from 44 balls with eight wick­ets re­main­ing.

It was an equa­tion the Ama­zon War­riors ne­go­ti­at­ed with ease as they romped to vic­to­ry with two overs re­main­ing.