Leonar­do Julien’s un­beat­en 64 en­sured that Dream XI Trinidad T10 Blast lead­ers Samp Army Cocrico Cav­a­liers main­tained their po­si­tion at the pin­na­cle of the ta­ble via a six-wick­et win over Scar­let Ibis Scorchers at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Wednes­day.

The Scorchers bat­ted first and scored and start­ed promis­ing­ly with a 44-run part­ner­ship be­tween Daniel Williams and Cephas Coop­er. They rolled the score in three and a half overs and were sep­a­rat­ed when Coop­er was caught for 14.

The Scorchers, who got their sec­ond win of the tour­na­ment the day be­fore, against Leatherback Strik­ers to climb from the cel­lar po­si­tion, lost Williams for 36 with the score on 52.

On­ly Dex­ter Sween, who made 14 and Keron Ram­per­sad, who made 17, got in­to dou­ble fig­ures as the Scorchers strug­gled to put part­ner­ships to­geth­er as they strug­gled to 105 for nine from their al­lot­ment of ten overs.

Jesse Bootan and Justin Joseph took two wick­ets each to re­tard the flow of runs and keep the tar­get man­age­able.

Go­ing af­ter a tar­get that should pose too many is­sues, the Cav­a­liers lost Bootan, who scored 91 not out the day be­fore, for a gold­en duck, first ball of the in­nings, as Liam Mam­chan struck. They lost Kjorn Ot­t­ley in the next over.

Then an 85-run part­ner­ship be­tween Kyle Ram­doo and Julien took the match away from the Scorchers. Julien hit five fours and six six­es in 22 balls for his un­beat­en 64 while Ram­doo was re­duced to be­ing a spec­ta­tor with 17 from 14 balls.

Not even the quick wick­ets of Ram­doo and Sai­ba Ba­toos­ingh could pre­vent the Cav­a­liers from win­ning as they held on to the top spot of the stand­ings for one more day.

In the late match, Kamil Pooran (79) and Teshawn Cas­tro (70) pun­ished the Chica­go Steel­pan Play­ers to score 174 for three in ten overs.

The for­mer ta­ble lead­ers came close as Sidel Di­az (41) and Silus Coop­er (52) got to 161 /5 to slip third in the stand­ings as the teams swapped places.

Brief scores

Scar­let Ibis Scorchers 105/9 (10 overs) (Daniel Williams 36; Jesse Bootan 2-2) vs Samp Army Cocrico Cav­a­liers 107 /4 (7.3 overs) (Leonar­do Julien 64 not out; Mikkel Govia 3-27). Cav­a­liers won by 6 wick­ets.

Leatherback Strik­ers 101/8 (10 overs) (Damion Joachim 70; De­journ Charles 3-9; Rayad Em­rit 2-30) vs So­ca Kings 104/3 (8.1 overs) (Tion Web­ster 41 not out; Akeel Mo­hammed 25 not out; Ter­rance Hinds 1-11). So­ca Kings won by 7 wick­ets.

Bess Mo­tors Blue Dev­ils 174/3 (10 overs) (Kamil Pooran 79; Teshawn Cas­tro 70 not out; Navin Bidaisee 1-22) vs Chica­go Steel­pan Play­ers 161 /5 (10 overs) (Silus Coop­er 52; Sidel Di­az 41; Ri­val­do Ram­lo­gan 2-17; Justin Gan­goo 2-25). Blue Dev­ils won by 13 runs.