Bar­ba­dos Roy­als kept their un­beat­en run in­tact as they made it six wins from six in Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) fol­low­ing vic­to­ry over the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers in front of a par­ti­san and sold-out crowd at the Queen's Park Oval in Port-of-Spain on Tues­day night.

The Roy­als won the toss and opt­ed to field first and took full ad­van­tage of that de­ci­sion with their spin­ners Rah­keem Corn­wall and Mu­jeeb Ur Rah­man caus­ing hav­oc up­front.

Four wick­ets fell in the first sev­en overs and the Knight Rid­ers strug­gled to get back in­to the game.

Nicholas Pooran put up a valiant fight with a bat­tling half-cen­tu­ry but the 132 they post­ed was short of a com­pet­i­tive to­tal.

If there were any lin­ger­ing doubts in the Roy­als' minds about chas­ing the to­tal in front of a rau­cous Queens Park Oval, Kyle May­ers didn’t read the script. He hit a blis­ter­ing 79 to stun the home crowd and lead the Roy­als to a com­fort­able win.

The Queens Park Oval was si­lenced in­side the Pow­er­Play as the Roy­als took out the Knight Rid­ers' top or­der.

Corn­wall and the de­but­ing Mu­jeeb Ur Rah­man dis­missed Tion Web­ster, Col­in Munro and Tim Seifert in quick suc­ces­sion to leave Nicholas Pooran and Kieron Pol­lard with a ma­jor res­cue job on their hands.

When Pol­lard fell to Ur Rah­man straight af­ter the Pow­er­Play all looked lost for the Knight Rid­ers but Pooran and Sunil Nar­ine put to­geth­er a fine re­build­ing part­ner­ship to leave the home team well set at 100/4 with five overs to go.

How­ev­er when Obed Mc­Coy bowled Pooran for a well-con­struct­ed 52 off 44 balls that sig­nalled the end of the Knight Rid­ers' fight back. The re­main­ing bat­ters stut­tered their way to a to­tal of 132 which was not enough against the ir­re­sistible Bar­ba­dos Roy­als.

If the Knight Rid­ers were go­ing to have a chance then a lot de­pend­ed on tak­ing wick­ets in the Pow­er­Play, Daryn Du­pavil­lon pro­vid­ed the ear­ly joy clean bowl­ing Corn­wall for 1.

But that was to be as good as it got as the Hero CPL lead­ing run scor­er, Kyle May­ers, hit a stun­ning 79 from 35 balls to guide the Roy­als to the edge of vic­to­ry.

Corbin Bosch and Quin­ton De Kock saw out the re­main­ing runs with min­i­mum fuss to en­sure the Roy­als re­main un­beat­en.

BRIEF SCORES

Bar­ba­dos Roy­als 136/2 (May­ers 79, Bosch 33*; Du­pavil­lon 2/30) beat Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers 132 (Pooran 52, Nar­ine 30; Ur Rah­man 3/17, Corn­wall 2/27) by 8 wick­ets