Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents skip­per Ja­son Hold­er's men put more tears in Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers fans' eyes at the Queen's Park Oval in Port-of-Spain on Wednes­day night, af­ter cruis­ing to a sev­en-wick­et win over the home side in their lat­est Hero Caribbean Pro­fes­sion­al League matchup.

In an bril­liant all-round per­for­mance, Tri­dents bowlers Har­ry Gur­ney (2/14), Shak­ib Al Hasan (2/24) and Hay­den Walsh Jr (2/34) first sti­fled the TKR bat­ting to just 138-8, be­fore open­er John­son Charles stroked a 47-ball 55 as the Ba­jan got home with two balls to spare.

The re­sult cre­at­ed yet an­oth­er up­heaval on the six-team round-robin ta­ble as the Tri­dents leapfrogged TKR in­to joint sec­ond place with the St Kitts Nevis Pa­tri­ots, both teams on 10 points. With the loss, their fourth in the last five match­es, the now stut­ter­ing TKR (9 pts) dropped to fourth place and must now win their last game against un­beat­en lead­ers Guyana Ama­zon War­riors (16 pts) on Fri­day if they want to clinch sec­ond spot to earn them­selves two chances of mak­ing the fi­nal via the elim­i­na­tor play­off match­es.

How­ev­er, judg­ing from Wednes­day's re­sult, skip­per Kieron Pol­lard's team have a lot to do to steady the TKR ship ahead of that match, which they must now win if are to re­ju­ve­nate their run for a hat-trick of CPL ti­tles.

On Wednes­day night, how­ev­er, it was all about the Tri­dents' su­prema­cy over the TKR, whom they beat twice in a sin­gle sea­son for the first time in the his­to­ry of the tour­na­ment.

Charles en­sured this by hold­ing the top half of the bat­ting to­geth­er as he hit five fours and two six­es in his in­nings. He was fi­nal­ly yorked by TKR medi­um-pac­er Chris Jor­dan off the fifth ball of the 16th over with Tri­dents at 110-3, but by that time the home side could not pre­vent a sec­ond con­sec­u­tive loss at the Oval.

Charles and open­ing part­ner Alex Hales had mere­ly con­tin­ued the Tri­dents dom­i­nance, si­lenc­ing the home fans as they raced to a 54-run open­ing part­ner­ship be­fore Mark Deyal fi­nal­ly got the break­through. Deyal even­tu­al­ly got Hales to try an ex­pan­sive ex­tra cov­er dri­ve which he could not keep down as Javon Sear­les took the catch at cov­er.

South African JP Du­miny had the ho­n­our of hit­ting the win­ning two runs off Pol­lard in the fi­nal over.

Ear­li­er, Sim­mons' half-cen­tu­ry was the on­ly high­light of the TKR in­nings as the home side strug­gled to get runs on a two-paced pitch as the vis­i­tors al­so made things tough with tight bowl­ing and good field­ing in be­tween.

Shak­ib Al-Hasan sig­nalled their in­ten­tion by string in the very first over af­ter Jim­my Nee­sham, el­e­vat­ed to open the bat­ting, went for a big dri­ve off on­ly the sec­ond ball he saw from the left-arm or­tho­dox spin­ner and skied the de­liv­ery high in­to the air where Al-Hasan him­self took the catch as TKR fell be­hind ear­ly at 4-1.

Col­in Munro joined Sim­mons and they shared in a 52-run part­ner­ship be­fore US-based leg-spin­ner Hay­den Walsh Jr struck a vi­tal blow. Munro was just be­gin­ning to hit his stride when Walsh de­liv­ered a goo­gly which Munro played ten­ta­tive­ly for­ward to and got a thin edge to wick­et­keep­er John­son Charles. Munro made 23 and the TKR were now 56-2.

Bra­vo and Sim­mons ne­go­ti­at­ed them to 65-2 at the 10-over break but the im­pe­tus they were hop­ing for on the restart nev­er ma­te­ri­alised. Bra­vo (6), af­ter get­ting a life the over be­fore, chopped Walsh's flip­per on­to his mid­dle stump go­ing for a cut as TKR slumped to 74-3 in the 11 over. And af­ter three tight overs in be­tween this, Sim­mons, whose 50 came off 37 balls and in­clud­ed three fours and three six­es, was bowled be­tween his legs by Al Hasan as he went for a slog sweep and missed as TKR slid to 104-4 af­ter 15 overs.

It got no bet­ter ei­ther, as the Tri­dents con­tin­ued to ap­ply the pres­sure thanks to Gur­ney. He got the big wick­et of TKR skip­per Kieron Pol­lard, caught at long-on for 20 as he tried to pump the medi­um-pac­er out the Oval off the first ball of the 18th over. Walsh then ran out Javon Scant­le­bury-Sear­les with a di­rect throw from point af­ter he was called through for a sui­cide sin­gle by De­nesh Ramdin.

How­ev­er, TKR's night was summed up in the penul­ti­mate over when Mark Deyal flicked medi­um-pac­er Ray­mon Reifer to­wards the deep mid­wick­et bound­ary and Du­miny ran in, mis­judged the ball and could on­ly par­ry it as it passed by him. How­ev­er, team­mate Jonathan Carter, who was al­so chas­ing af­ter the ball, was on spot to catch the re­bound just be­fore it hit the turf.

TRIN­BA­GO KNIGHT RID­ERS 134-8 (20) (Lendl Sim­mons 60, Col­in Munro 23, Kieron Pol­lard 20, Har­ry Gur­ney 2/24, Shak­ib Al Hasan 2/25, Hay­den Walsh 2/34) v BAR­BA­DOS TRI­DENTS 135-3 (19.4) (John­son Charles 55, Alex Hales 33, JP Du­miny 18*, Mark Deyal 1/17, Jim­my Nee­sham 1/26)

Re­sult: BAR­BA­DOS TRI­DENTS WON BY 7 WICK­ETS

Man-of-the-match: Har­ry Gur­ney (Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents)