Ja­maica Tallawahs con­tin­ued their un­beat­en start to the 2023 Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) with an eight-wick­et win over St Kitts and Nevis Pa­tri­ots.

The Ja­maican fran­chise won the toss and chose to field first, with a su­perb four-wick­et haul from Salman Ir­shad help­ing them re­strict the St Kitts & Nevis Pa­tri­ots to 156/9 af­ter 20 overs.

The Tallawahs man­aged to chase down the tar­get in 16.3 overs, cap­tain Bran­don King pro­duc­ing a mag­nif­i­cent in­nings of 67 to con­tin­ue the de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons' great start to the sea­son.

The Pa­tri­ots had got off to a promis­ing ear­ly start, An­dre Fletch­er and Evin Lewis com­bin­ing to push the score to 20/0 af­ter two overs. Yet the fourth over would change the whole com­plex­ion of the tie as Ir­shad took three wick­ets, in­clud­ing that of Fletch­er and Am­bati Rayudu, to leave the Pa­tri­ots reel­ing at 37/4. West In­dies in­ter­na­tion­al Joshua Da Sil­va steadi­ly re­built the in­nings with his score of 36, be­fore a late burst from Do­minic Drakes saw the Pa­tri­ots reach 156/9 at the end of their in­nings.

Ja­maica Tallawah open­ers Bran­don King and Kirk McKen­zie com­bined to score sev­en bound­aries and take the side to 34/0 af­ter three overs of their chase. King would go on to bring up his half-cen­tu­ry off just 22 balls, be­fore los­ing his wick­et on 67 to a Do­minic Drakes de­liv­ery. Shamarh Brooks would con­tin­ue to ac­cel­er­ate the score be­fore Amir Jan­goo would take his side across the fin­ish line with a six.

St Kitts and Nevis Pa­tri­ots will look to re­bound on Thurs­day as they face off against Guyana Ama­zon War­riors.