The Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) will come up against the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors in their eighth match of the 2019 Hero Caribbean Pre­mier at the Queen’s Park Oval tonight from 7 pm, look­ing to get back to win­ning ways but firm in the un­der­stand­ing that they are al­ready in­to the play­offs.

TKR are in third po­si­tion with nine points from sev­en match­es, but their place in the play­offs was con­firmed af­ter the St Kitts Nevis Pa­tri­ots de­feat­ed the Tri­dents by one run on Sat­ur­day night at the Kens­ing­ton Oval in Bar­ba­dos. The bat­tle for the TKR now will be for sec­ond spot so that they get two chances at mak­ing the fi­nals card­ed for Oc­to­ber 12 at the Bri­an Lara Sta­di­um in Tarou­ba.

The War­riors are out front with 14 points from sev­en match­es and will be look­ing to con­tin­ue their mo­men­tum. Man­ag­er Omar Khan is not about to al­low his team to let up, giv­en that mo­men­tum at this stage is key.

“We don’t want to let up at this stage. As you know, win­ning is a habit and we have got­ten in­to that habit. Los­ing is al­so a habit and we want to be at the top of our game all the time,” Khan told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day.

“We know the TKR will be tough to de­feat at home but we have a much-im­proved out­fit led by a man Shoaib Ma­lik who has got­ten them to re­spond. We will con­tin­ue to play ba­sic crick­et well, stick to our plans and look to con­tin­ue their ef­fi­cient way we go about our busi­ness.”

The Oval is ex­pect­ed to be packed to the rafters tonight de­spite the fact that it is a Mon­day.

TKR have gone 15 days with­out a win in the cam­paign af­ter fly­ing out the blocks with four vic­to­ries. But man­ag­er Col­in Bor­de is not a wor­ried man.

“We al­ways say that you want to cov­er all ground be­fore the play-offs. If there are things to iron out, you don’t want to get to the knock­out stage to face this. You want to be able to work through your dif­fi­cult ar­eas, set­tle on your team and build that con­fi­dence go­ing in­to the play-offs. This is where it starts for us now, lead­ing in­to those match­es and we are look­ing for­ward to end­ing strong­ly over the next three match­es,” Bor­de said yes­ter­day.

TKR are ex­pect­ed to bring in the Eng­land in­ter­na­tion­al Chris Jor­dan for his first match of the tour­na­ment tonight. He re­placed Muham­mad Has­nain, who was called back to Pak­istan to play against Sri Lan­ka. Jor­dan is ex­pect­ed to join the Amer­i­can Ali Khan as the key men in the pace bowl­ing de­part­ment.

In 17 match­es in CPL his­to­ry, the TKR leads the War­riors 10-7. The TKR, how­ev­er, have won six of the last eight en­coun­ters against them, in­clud­ing the 2018 fi­nal.