Ramdin guides Amazon Warriors to first win

Guyana Amazon Warriors registered their first win of the season - a comfortable seven-wicket victory against St. Kitts & Nevis Patriots with 24 balls to spare in Basseterre - with the help of a brisk half-century from their captain Denesh Ramdin.

Patriots got off to a steady start after choosing to bat with Martin Guptill and Evin Lewis adding 66 for the first wicket before the partnership was broken by fast bowler Ronsford Beaton in the 10th over. Both openers were dismissed for 34, with the same boundary count - three fours and a six. Guptill fell in the 13th over and Patriots didn't find momentum after that, save a cameo from Carlos Brathwaite who struck three sixes in his 11-ball 23. Patriots finished with 149 for 9, with Beaton taking 3 for 30 and spinner Sunil Narine claiming two wickets in an economical spell.

Amazon Warriors lost Tillakaratne Dilshan for 12 in the fourth over of the chase, but a 65-run second-wicket partnership between Lendl Simmons (41) and Ramdin (54) off just 38 balls, took the game away from Patriots. Although Simmons was dismissed in the 10th over, another fifty-plus stand between Brad Hodge and Ramdin sealed victory for Amazon Warriors. The highlight of Ramdin's half-century was the four consecutive sixes he struck off Shahid Afridi.