Just when the St. Lu­cia Zouks cof­fin was about to be low­ered in the hole on Sun­day, they jumped out and ran away singing the vic­to­ry song.

An­oth­er amaz­ing come­back to fol­low the TKR's ef­fort on Sat­ur­day has land­ed the Zouks their fifth win in sev­en match­es and they are al­most as­sured of a place in the se­mi-fi­nals of the 2020 Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) tour­na­ment.

They set the de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents just 93 runs to win from 20 over or 120 balls and some­how they just couldn't get that small score los­ing by three runs.

SCORES: St. Lu­cia Zouks 92 all out (18) ver­sus Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents 89/7 Tri­dents lost by three runs. On­ly twice that a team has chased 93 or few­er runs and bat­ted 20 overs and didn't get it.

Af­ter the bap­tism of fire that leg-spin­ner Hay­den Walsh got on Sat­ur­day from Ke­iron Pol­lard, who took 24 runs of one of his overs, he looked the heav­ens a lot more pleased yes­ter­day as he was back his old self, get­ting peo­ple out. His 3/19 broke the back of the Zouks bat­ting and saw them crum­ble to 92 all out.

The Tri­dents then made heavy weath­er of get­ting the tar­get us­ing all 20 overs, los­ing sev­en wick­ets and still falling short.

It went down to the fi­nal over with the Tri­dents need­ing nine runs for vic­to­ry and the play­er from Christchurch in Bar­ba­dos Ros­ton Chase, who was giv­en the task to de­ny the Zouks. His first ball was a dot ball, he grabbed a wick­et with the next and this was fol­lowed by an­oth­er dot ball. With three balls to go, they need­ed nine runs still and Chase al­lowed on­ly five, spark­ing wild cel­e­bra­tions from the in­spi­ra­tional skip­per Dar­ren Sam­my.

John­son Charles who nor­mal­ly gets his work done quick­ly scored 39 off 42 balls, one of his slow­er of­fer­ings in T20 crick­et. Shai Hope scored 14 off 11 balls and Corey An­der­son con­tin­ued his Caribbean night­mare with 11 off 20 balls.

Ear­li­er, the Zouks play­ers could not blame the pitch as they just played wrong shots to cer­tain balls and got dis­missed. The Bar­ba­dos bowl­ing at­tack was as dis­ci­plined as the po­lice­men on Broad Street di­rect­ing traf­fic. Their hands stayed in their pock­ets as they gave noth­ing away.

There were no free­bies for the Zouks and one won­ders whether if this match was played in South and they had to pass Freeport if they would have turned back.

Apart from Walsh, Ray­mond Reifer took 2/5 off his soli­tary over, as on­ly three Zouks bats­men got in­to dou­ble fig­ures. Afghanistan's Na­jibul­lah Zad­ran who has caught the eye at this CPL made 22, while Emerg­ing Play­er Leniko Bouch­er scored 18 and Ros­ton Chase 14.

SCORES: St. Lu­cia Zouks 92 all out (18) (Na­jibul­lah Zad­ran 22, Leniko Bouch­er 18, Ros­ton Chase 14, Hay­den Walsh 3/19, Ray­mond Reifer 2/5) vs Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents 89/7 (20) (John­son Charles 39, Leniko Bouch­er 18, Javal Glenn 2/11, Kesrick Williams 2/12) - Zouks won by 3 runs.