Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) and St Lu­cia Kings bat­tle for a place in Sun­day’s Caribbean Pre­mier League fi­nal at Prov­i­dence Sta­di­um in Guyana, on Fri­day.

Knight Rid­ers earned the right to face the Kings af­ter their nine-wick­et win in the Elim­i­na­tor against An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Fal­cons at the same venue on Tues­day, while Kings’ 14-run loss to Guyana Ama­zon War­riors in the first Qual­i­fi­er sent them to have an­oth­er chance in the sec­ond Qual­i­fi­er.

TKR and Kings split their match­es against each oth­er this sea­son. Knight Rid­ers de­feat­ed Kings at the Dar­ren Sam­my Sta­di­um in St Lu­cia by 18 runs on Au­gust 25. Kings then re­turned the favour with a con­vinc­ing sev­en-wick­et win in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Sep­tem­ber 3, hand­ing the hosts their on­ly home loss in the fi­nal home match this sea­son.

Speak­ing ahead of the clash, cap­tain David Wiese, in re­sponse to their loss to Guyana when they were bowled out for 143 in pur­suit of 158 to win, is hop­ing the bat­ting will im­prove.

“It's just ba­si­cal­ly tak­ing ten min­utes just re­flect­ing on this game, where we can learn, where we can get bet­ter,” Wiese said. “Not mak­ing the same mis­takes when we come on Fri­day (to­day).”

The reign­ing cham­pi­ons have looked the most com­fort­able of the six fran­chis­es, with the on­ly loss­es in the group stage com­ing against TKR and Bar­ba­dos Roy­als in a sur­prise re­sult.

On the oth­er hand, their op­po­nents to­day, the four-time cham­pi­ons, TKR, en­joyed a spell of five con­sec­u­tive wins dur­ing the cam­paign. But the T&T-based team suf­fered three straight de­feats that co­in­cid­ed with the in­jury and un­avail­abil­i­ty of ex­pe­ri­enced Pak­istani left-arm pac­er Mo­hammed Amir.

The win against the resur­gent Fal­cons was their first win since their win against St Kitts and Nevis Pa­tri­ots on Sep­tem­ber 2. But cap­tain Pooran, who was hit with a 20% match fine for dis­sent against um­pire Ryan Ban­warie in the win against the Fal­cons, said the job is far from over.

“We want to take every game as it comes, one game at a time,” Pooran said. “Ob­vi­ous­ly, we have a job to do. It's not com­plete yet.”

The first ball at Prov­i­dence is at 8 pm.