GROS ISLET – Bar­ba­dos Roy­als main­tained their 100 per­cent record with a dom­i­nant vic­to­ry over the Saint Lu­cia Kings in the 11th match of the men’s Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League at the Daren Sam­my Crick­et Ground in St Lu­cia, Thurs­day night.

The Roy­als won the toss and opt­ed to field first and that proved an in­spired de­ci­sion as they made reg­u­lar in­roads in­to the Kings top or­der to leave them tee­ter­ing on 90/5.

How­ev­er, the in­ter­na­tion­al pair of Tim David and David Wiese put to­geth­er a res­cue act to en­sure the Kings post­ed a re­spectable to­tal for their bowlers to try and de­fend.

That to­tal nev­er looked enough in the Bar­ba­dos Roy­als re­ply as Corbin Bosch ar­rived with the bat in the Hero CPL to lead his side to vic­to­ry.

Ear­li­er on the Kings had post­ed what looked a com­pet­i­tive to­tal of 169/6. Reach­ing 50/1 at the end of the Pow­er­Play a sol­id foun­da­tion was es­tab­lished for their mid­dle and low­er or­der to cap­i­talise on.

How­ev­er, the Roy­als were ex­cel­lent in the mid­dle sec­tion of the in­nings. Led by Hay­den Walsh’s miser­ly leg-spin bowl­ing they took wick­ets in reg­u­lar clus­ters to re­duce the Kings from 57/1 to 90/5.

David and Wiese re­fused to suc­cumb to the pres­sure and they counter-at­tacked bril­liant­ly to put on a 79 run part­ner­ship from 43 balls to en­sure a po­ten­tial de­fend­able to­tal was put on the board.

The 170 tar­get to win should have proved tricky for the Roy­als to chase but de­spite los­ing open­er Quin­ton De Kock for a gold­en duck, Kyle May­ers and Corbin Bosch plun­dered 84 runs from 48 balls to put their side well ahead of the game.

Even af­ter May­ers de­part­ed, Bosch con­tin­ued to have fruit­ful part­ner­ships with Azam Khan and David Miller re­spec­tive­ly un­til the all-rounder was even­tu­al­ly dis­missed by Alzarri Joseph for 81 from 50 balls.

Af­ter Bosch de­part­ed it was Miller and Hold­er who saw out the rest of the chase with min­i­mum fuss to make it four wins from four for the im­pres­sive Bar­ba­dos Roy­als.

Scores:

KINGS 169 for six off 20 overs (Tim David 40, John­son Charles 29, David Wiese 28 not out; Hay­den Walsh 2-19) vs ROY­ALS 175 for four off 18.3 overs (Corbin Bosch 81, Kyle May­ers 33, David Miller 29 not out; Alzarri Joseph 3-32).

Bar­ba­dos Roy­als won by six wick­ets.