Marlon Samuels' stroke-filled 71 and South African chinaman Tabraiz Shamsi's career-best figures of 4 for 10 set up a convincing eight-wicket win for St. Kitts & Nevis Patriots against Barbados Tridents in Basseterre.

The Tridents openers - Dilshan Munaweera and Dwayne Smith - began the innings solidly, adding 47 in 38 balls before the introduction of spin halted their progress. Shahid Afridi struck with his second ball and in the eighth over Shamsi bowled Smith. Jason Holder, batting at No. 4, struggled to find fluency during his 19-ball 17 and Shamsi's double-strike in the 14th over left Tridents wobbling at 76 for 5.

I was not impressed with the captaincy of pollard in this match.

1) on the fourth ball of the last over he turned down a single and then got out next ball. So two balls were wasted for no run at a time when every run was needed.

2) he had no faith in his spinners when spinners shamsi and afridi had just destroyed his team. Peterson did not come on until the 15th over. If pollard has no faith in them then they should not be in the eleven.

3) bowling batsman-part-time-spinner munaweera ahead of Peterson and nurse made no sense.