Akeal Ho­sein un­der­mined Guyana Ama­zon War­riors with the ball and Alex Hales and Col­in Munro dom­i­nat­ed with the bat as the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers reg­is­tered a six-wick­et vic­to­ry, their fourth in suc­ces­sion, in the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League on Sat­ur­day.

Play­er-of-the-Match Ho­sein claimed 3-27 from his four overs and was a ma­jor rea­son why the Ama­zon War­riors on­ly got up to 163 for nine in their 20 overs af­ter be­ing sent in to bat at the Bri­an Lara Sta­di­um.

Hales and Munro then both scored pul­sat­ing half cen­turies dur­ing an open­ing stand of 116 while scor­ing at more than 10 runs an over, to see the home side gal­lop to 169 for four off just 17.2 overs.

Chas­ing a be­low par to­tal, the two open­ers wast­ed lit­tle time with Munro hit­ting spin­ner Gu­dakesh Motie for three fours and a six in his open­ing over and sec­ond of the in­nings.

Hales then out­did his bat­ting part­ner by launch­ing Moeen Ali for three straight six­es and a four to start the next over that leaked 23 overs, as the Knight Rid­ers rock­et­ed to 49 with­out loss af­ter on­ly three overs.

Pac­er Shamar Joseph was in­tro­duced to the at­tack, but he too was dis­patched by Munro for a six and four and skip­per Im­ran Tahir was belt­ed for back-to-back six­es in the sev­enth over by Hales, which end­ed with the Knight Rid­ers 90 with­out loss.

Munro, who al­so scored a half cen­tu­ry in his pre­vi­ous match, was first to his 50 off 26 balls by slog sweep­ing Tahir for two runs, and Hales fol­lowed suit four balls lat­er, bring­ing up his mile­stone off 26 balls with an­oth­er mas­sive six off Tahir that sailed over the bound­ary ropes.

So dev­as­tat­ing was their open­ing stand that even when Tahir grabbed three wick­ets in one over, the re­sult nev­er seemed in doubt.

Tahir had Munro caught at ex­tra cov­er for 52 off 30 balls with six fours and three six­es, had Nicholas Pooran caught first ball at long off and then bowled Kea­cy Car­ty, al­so for a duck, to see the home side stum­ble to 117 for three af­ter 11 overs.

Tahir al­so ac­count­ed for Hales’ wick­et for a well-played 74 off 43 balls, in­clu­sive of sev­en six­es and three fours, but An­dre Rus­sell and Kieron Pol­lard held firm to see their side to vic­to­ry.

Tahir end­ed with 4-37 from his four overs.

Ear­li­er, Ho­sein and Ter­rance Hinds, who took 2-35, shack­led the Ama­zon War­riors’ high pow­ered bat­ting line­up.

Ho­sein ac­count­ed for open­er Ben Mc­Der­mott, Has­san Khan and Shim­ron Het­my­er, as the Ama­zon War­riors’ top or­der fal­tered apart from Shai Hope, who hit a fight­ing 39 off 29 balls.

The Ama­zon War­riors lost wick­ets reg­u­lar­ly and found them­selves 70 for five at the end of nine overs, be­fore Quentin Samp­son (25,), Dwaine Pre­to­rius (21) and Ro­mario Shep­herd (19), bol­stered their to­tal. (CMC)