What a dif­fer­ence a day makes.

Less than 24 hours af­ter pulling off a record Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League run chase to beat the Ja­maica Tallawahs, the St Kitts Nevis Pa­tri­ots were put in a tail­spin by the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents at Warn­er Park in St Kitts.

Chas­ing 187 for vic­to­ry on their home ground, the Pa­tri­ots could not read the spin of Sandeep Lamich­hane and Hay­den Walsh and were re­strict­ed to 168 for nine for their third loss in four match­es.

Nepal’s Lamich­hane and USA’s Walsh, both leg-break spe­cial­ists, com­bined for five wick­ets, rip­ping out the heart of the Pa­tri­ots mid­dle-or­der to quick­ly bring the Pa­tri­ots back to earth with an 18-run de­feat.

The Tri­dents vic­to­ry al­so opened up the six-team ta­ble, as while the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors and Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers re­main on top with a com­fort­able six points each, both the Pa­tri­ots and Tri­dents now have two points. The Tallawahs and St Lu­cia Zouks, who meet in Thurs­day’s matchup, are yet to get a point.

But Tri­dents skip­per and pac­er Ja­son Hold­er had sig­nalled the vis­i­tors’ in­tent from ear­ly on when he re­moved the dan­ger­ous De­von Thomas for just one with his very first ball. Thomas could not re­sist go­ing for a de­liv­ery lined out­side off stump and edged to wick­et-keep­er Leniko Bouch­er. Nine balls lat­er, Hold­er sucked all the air out of the venue when he got Evin Lewis, who had scored a record half-cen­tu­ry on Tues­day against the Tall­wahs. Af­ter be­ing pegged down for a few balls Lewis, on on­ly 12, tried to break out of the shell with a forc­ing cov­er dri­ve, but it spooned in­to the air and gave Ash­ley Nurse a com­fort­able catch at cov­er. Both Thomas and Lewis, who cham­pi­oned their world record run-chase against the Tallawahs, were now back in the pavil­ion with the score on just 28.

Medi­um-pac­er Roshon Primus then got Ja­son Mo­hammed to chase a de­liv­ery down the leg side on­ly to of­fer Bouch­er an­oth­er catch be­hind the wick­et as the Pa­tri­ots slumped to 64 for three.

From there on it was the Lamich­hane and Walsh show, with the lat­ter ex­e­cut­ing a dou­ble blow to start a flow of Pa­tri­ots wick­ets to and from the pavil­ion.

In the 12th over, Lamich­hane first drew Shamarh Brooks down the pitch try­ing a shot, al­though he was not close enough to the pitch of the ball. Nurse made a meal of the catch but man­aged to hold on at long-off to dis­miss Brooks for 13. Lau­rie Evans then tried an ill-ad­vised sweep shot out­side the off-stump and suc­ceed­ed on­ly in get­ting a top edge to Josh Lalor at short fine leg as the home side tot­tered to103-5. Evans went for a top-score of 64 from 41 balls with 10 fours and a six.

With the ad­di­tion of just one run to the score, Walsh’s goo­gly went right through Fabi­an Allen, an­oth­er Tallawahs match hero, and shat­tered his stumps for a duck to spark wild cel­e­bra­tions from the Tri­dents, who were now sens­ing a first vic­to­ry.

In the very next over, Pa­tri­ots skip­per Car­los Brath­waite failed to read two con­sec­u­tive googlies from Lamich­hane and was trapped in front by the sec­ond for just one – the Pa­tri­ots now to­tal­ly de­mor­alised at 106-7.

But the heav­ens opened up be­fore the over could be com­plet­ed, forc­ing the play­ers off the field. Af­ter a 43-minute rain de­lay, it did not take much longer for the Tri­dents to com­plete the vic­to­ry, as Walsh (2/33) bagged an­oth­er wick­et and on­ly a ninth-wick­et 49-run part­ner­ship from Do­minic Drakes and Alzarri Joseph from brought any joy for the home fans.

Lamich­hane fin­ished with three for 22 to earn the Man-of-the-match award.

Ear­li­er, af­ter putting a stran­gle­hold on the Tri­dents bats­men in the first 15 overs, the Pa­tri­ots al­lowed the third-wick­et pair of Bouch­er and JP Du­miny to milk 66 runs from the last five overs to take the vis­i­tors to a de­cent to­tal.

Bouch­er got 62, his first CPL half-cen­tu­ry, in­clud­ing four fours and three six­es, while Du­miny hit an 18-ball 43 laced with two fours and four max­i­mums. The pair came to­geth­er af­ter John­son Charles was dis­missed for 52 with the score on 113-2 in the 14th over and runs hard to come by on a two-aced pitch. But South African Du­miny showed his ex­pe­ri­ence in sup­port of Bouch­er to give Pa­tri­ots a chal­leng­ing and what was an even­tu­al win­ning to­tal.

SUM­MARISED SCORES:

BAR­BA­DOS TRI­DENTS 186-2 (Leniko Bouch­er 62, John­son Charles 52, JP Du­miny 43, Us­ama Mir 1/30) v ST KITTS NEVIS PA­TRI­OTS 168-9 (Lau­rie Evans 64, Do­minic Drakes 34, Sandeep Lamich­hane 3/22, Hay­den Walsh 2/33, Ja­son Hold­er 2/37)

Re­sult: BAR­BA­DOS TRI­DENTS WON BY 18 RUNS

Man-of-the-Match: SANDEEP LAMICH­HANE (BT)