Mic­ah McKen­zie led with the ball and Jew­el An­drew starred with the bat as the Lee­ward Is­lands Thun­der in­flict­ed the first de­feat on the Trinidad and To­ba­go Le­gions in the West In­dies Break­out League on Fri­day night.

Le­gions’ open­er Amir Jan­goo struck an en­ter­pris­ing half cen­tu­ry as the home side post­ed 151 for eight from their 20 overs at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my, af­ter be­ing sent in by the vis­i­tors.

McKen­zie grabbed four wick­ets with his leg breaks to help or­ches­trate a mid­dle or­der col­lapse that sucked all of the life out of the Le­gions’ in­nings.

An­drew then struck 47 from 28 balls, as the Thun­der com­fort­ably chased down their tar­get, fin­ish­ing on 152 for sev­en with 18 balls to spare.

The Thun­der hand­ed the top-of-the-ta­ble Le­gions their first loss in four out­ings, while they re­main the on­ly un­beat­en team in the com­pe­ti­tion with three wins from their three match­es.

Jan­goo was the main­stay of the Le­gions’ to­tal, with his 52 re­quir­ing 39 balls and con­tain­ing five fours and two six­es.

To­geth­er with Kamil Pooran, they took the Le­gions to a com­fort­able po­si­tion of 80 for two in the 12th over, dur­ing a 44-run part­ner­ship.

But things went down­hill af­ter McKen­zie trapped Pooran lbw for six to grab his sec­ond wick­et of the match.

McKen­zie then had Jan­goo caught five runs lat­er, and with his next de­liv­ery he had Navin Bidaisee lbw for a first ball duck to see the Le­gions slip to 85 for five.

The home side was res­cued by Jo­hann Layne, who hit an un­beat­en 22 off 10 balls and Joshua James, who fin­ished on 13 not out from eight balls, af­ter they fell in­to even fur­ther trou­ble at 114 for eight in the 18th over.

McKen­zie fin­ished with fig­ures of 4-25 and Cameron Pen­nyfeath­er sup­port­ed with 2-21.

The Thun­der found them­selves in a spot of both­er ear­ly on when Shaaron Lewis dis­missed Jaime Cor­nelius for a duck and Layne ac­count­ed for Mikyle Louis, to leave the score 24 for two.

But An­drew and open­er Kofi James put on 62 runs for the third wick­et to help them re­build their in­nings.

And af­ter James fell for 36 and An­drew lost his wick­et for 47 to see them slide to 115 for four, Giovonte De­peiza scored 32 to car­ry them with­in sight of the fin­ish, be­fore los­ing his wick­et with sev­en runs need­ed for vic­to­ry.

Layne took 2-28 with his medi­um pace, while off spin­ner Navin Bidaisse claimed 2-36. (CMC)