Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) sealed a six-wick­et win against the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors in match five in the Women’s Six­ty at Warn­er Park in St Kitts and Nevis.

The change in per­for­mance by the TKR’s women was stark­ly ev­i­dent on Fri­day and there’s no ig­nor­ing the sub­stan­tial im­pact of the re­turn of their cap­tain, the ‘World Boss,’ De­an­dra Dot­tin.

She led her team to their sec­ond vic­to­ry as they got re­venge on the team that beat them on the open­ing day. In a must-win game, it was an all-round team per­for­mance with the ball and in the field that saw the War­riors dis­missed for 33 from just eight overs.

It was ig­nit­ed by the run-out of Chamari Atha­p­aththu by Shene­ta Grim­mond and from there, the wick­ets tum­bled. Sune Lu­us claimed two wick­ets while Geeti­ka Ko­dali was again pick­ing up huge names, claim­ing the wick­et of the dan­ger­ous Stafanie Tay­lor for three. Not one to be far from the ac­tion, it took a sen­sa­tion­al catch from Dot­tin to send her op­po­site num­ber pack­ing.

In re­sponse, Dot­tin and Lee-Ann Kir­by were quick to get go­ing. While the War­riors hadn’t man­aged a sin­gle bound­ary in their in­nings, the World Boss smashed one off just the sec­ond ball. It took them just 3.5 overs to knock off the runs and stay in pur­suit of a spot in the fi­nal. They now sit top of the ta­ble hav­ing won two and be­cause they have the high­est num­ber of SKYECH six­es. These will prove huge­ly im­por­tant for fi­nal po­si­tions should teams fin­ish equal on num­ber of wins.

On Thurs­day, Dot­tin helped to fire TKR to a 29-run vic­to­ry over Bar­ba­dos Roy­als. This af­ter los­ing both match­es on the day be­fore, to the Roy­als by 28 runs in the open­er on Wednes­day then to Ama­zon War­riors by 15 runs.

It was a day of ex­tremes in the in­au­gur­al com­pe­ti­tion and the crowd had front row seats to crick­et’s most ex­cit­ing new for­mat. There are sure to be even more flock­ing to Warn­er Park over the week­end, build­ing up to the fi­nals, to­mor­row.

SKYEXCH 6IX­TY SCORES:

Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers vs Guyana Ama­zon War­riors

AMA­ZON WAR­RIORS 33/6 (8 overs) (Sune Lu­us 26, Shen­ta Grim­mond 1-3, Hay­ley Jensen 1-5, Geeti­ka Go­dali 1-10) vs TKR 34 (3.5 overs) (De­an­dra Dot­tin 22). TKR won by six wick­ets.