BAS­SETERRE, St Kitts – Bar­ba­dos Roy­als made a win­ning start to the Men’s Six­ty with a com­fort­able three-wick­et win over Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR).

Asked to chase a pal­try 77 in the fi­nal game of the men’s triple head­er at Warn­er Park on Thurs­day, Roy­als over­hauled their tar­get with 21 balls to spare.

Corbin Bosch, a 27-year-old South African, led the run chase with 42 off 23 balls. He struck three fours and four six­es and put on 46 for the third wick­et with Har­ry Tec­tor (16), a part­ner­ship that hauled Roy­als around from 20 for two in the third over.

Ear­li­er, TKR mus­tered on­ly 76 in the eighth over, West In­dies left-arm spin­ner Akeal Ho­sein top-scor­ing with 27 from 16 balls but no oth­er bats­man pass­ing 20.

The in­nings was tot­ter­ing on 27 for three at the end of the third un­til Ho­sein ar­rived to belt a four and a cou­ple of six­es, in a 29-run fourth wick­et part­ner­ship with An­dre Rus­sell who fin­ished on 12 not out.

The Six­ty is a new for­mat or­gan­ised by the Caribbean Pre­mier League and Crick­et West In­dies, which sees 30 balls – in five sep­a­rate overs – bowled from one end and an­oth­er 30 balls from the oth­er end in each in­nings.

Each bat­ting side on­ly has six wick­ets.

Smith pow­ers Ama­zon War­riors win

West In­dies pow­er-hit­ter Odean Smith starred as Guyana Ama­zon War­riors opened their cam­paign in the Men’s Six­ty with a sev­en-run win over St Lu­cia King.

Smith lashed an un­beat­en 36 from 24 balls as Ama­zon War­riors re­cov­ered from a mid­dle or­der col­lapse to reach 111 for five off their ten overs.

Ama­zon War­riors were giv­en a fly­ing start, Shai Hope (19) and Chan­dra­paul Hem­raj (18) putting on 41 off 16 de­liv­er­ies for the first wick­et.

When four wick­ets tum­bled for 14 runs to leave Ama­zon War­riors tot­ter­ing on 55 for four in the fifth over, Smith ar­rived to belt two fours and three six­es in a 48-run, sixth wick­et with cap­tain Shim­ton Het­my­er (13), to re­vive the in­nings.

In re­ply, Kings slumped to 55 for five at the end of the sixth over af­ter 20-year-old Afghan left-arm spin­ner Waqar Salamkheil (3-16) ripped through the top or­der.

Roshon Primus then opened his shoul­ders to blast 41 from 23 balls with four fours and two six­es, in­spir­ing a 49-run, sixth wick­et part­ner­ship with Matthew Forde (12) but Kings came up just short.

Allen re­turns to guide Tallawahs vic­to­ry

Fabi­an Allen’s first ap­pear­ance in three months re­sult­ed in a vic­to­ry for Ja­maica Tallawahs, as they thrashed St Kitts and Nevis Pa­tri­ots by 55 runs in the sec­ond game of the Men’s Six­ty.

The 27-year-old left-arm spin­ning all-rounder, whose last out­ing came in the In­di­an Pre­mier League last April, top-scored with a siz­zling 18-ball 45 which helped Tallawahs to 139 all out in the fi­nal over.

He lashed two fours and five six­es, re­ceiv­ing sup­port from West In­dies all-rounder Ray­mon Reifer who made 38 from 19 de­liv­er­ies and Rov­man Pow­ell, whose 32 re­quired just 13 balls.

Tallawahs were stum­bling at 42 for three in the fourth over be­fore Allen or­ches­trat­ed an 80-run fourth wick­et stand with Reifer who lashed a four and four six­es.

Fac­ing a re­quired run rate of 14 runs per over, Pa­tri­ots buck­led de­spite the pres­ence of vet­er­an Chris Gayle (9) and Evin Lewis (15), and were dis­missed for 84 in the eighth over.

They were slump­ing bad­ly at 36 for four in the fourth over be­fore De­wald Bre­vis struck 34 from 11 balls with five six­es, in a 45-run, fifth wick­et part­ner­ship with Dar­ren Bra­vo (11) to re­vive the in­nings.

How­ev­er, off-spin­ner Jamie Mer­chant (2-8), along with fast bowlers Mi­gael Pre­to­rius (2-9) and Nichol­son Gor­don (2-16) all claimed two wick­ets each to keep Tallawahs on top.

CMC

SKYEXCH 6IX­TY SCORES:

Bar­ba­dos Roy­als vs TKR

TKR 76 off 7.5 overs (Akeal Ho­sein 25) vs ROY­ALS 80 for three off 6.3 overs (Corbin Bosch 42). Bar­ba­dos Roy­als won by three wick­ets.

Guyana Ama­zon War­riors vs St Lu­cia Kings

AMA­ZON WAR­RIORS 111 for five off 10 overs (Odean Smith 36 not out; Jeav­or Roy­al 2-8) vs KINGS 104 off 9.5 overs (Roshon Primus 41; Waqar Salamkheil 3-16). Ama­zon War­riors won by sev­en runs

Ja­maica Tallawahs vs St Kitts and Nevis Pa­tri­ots

TALLAWAHS 139 off 9.5 overs (Fabi­an Allen 45, Ray­mon Reifer 38, Rov­man Pow­ell 32) vs PA­TRI­OTS 84 off 7.2 overs (De­wald Bre­vis 34; Jamie Mer­chant 2-8). Tallawahs beat Pa­tri­ots by 55 runs.

Fri­day’s match­es

St Kitts And Nevis Pa­tri­ots vs St Lu­cia Kings, 10 am

Guyana Ama­zon War­riors vs TKR, 12.30 pm

Bar­ba­dos Roy­als vs Ja­maica Tallawahs, 5.30 pm