<p>Registering their first points of the competition in the final league game, Barbados Tridents managed an edgy six-wicket consolation win against Northern Knights in a rain-reduced Oppo Champions League Twenty20, here today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Chasing a Duckworth-Lewis revised target of 138 in a 19-over-a-side Group B game, The West Indian outfit got its target in 18.4 overs with James Franklin standing unbeaten on 33.<br /><br />The Tridents top-order showed little fight after a 31-run opening start Dilshan Munaweera (20), Raymon Reifer (15) and Jason Holder (11) were back in the dug out till the eight over.<br /><br />Left-arm orthodox Mitchell Santner (1-24) drew first blood after scalping Munaweera post his 14-ball quickfire.<br /><br />Indian-born leg-spinner Ish Sodhi (3-18) then swung into action and the New Zealander picked got Reifer and Holder in the space of three deliveries.<br /><br />Franklin and Jonathan Carter (30) then tried to pick the pieces by doing the grinding bit.<br />Carter got a life in the 11th over after the left-hander was dropped at deep mid-wicket off the bowling of Scott Styris (0-16) and he followed it up with a four in the next over.<br />Sodhi struck again in the 16th over but this time it a fielding brilliance to bring to an end Carter's 28-ball knock a 56-run fourth wicket-partnership.<br /><br />An outfield relay catch was once again at show as Devcich caught Carter's hit at mid-wicket and just as he was losing his balance off the ropes, he threw it back effortlessly to Daryl Mitchell, who completed the formality.<br /><br />The catch though did not bog down the Tridents' spirit as new-man Elton Chigumbura (18 not out) stuck it out with Franklin, who hit the winning boundary, to fetch their only four points in this edition.</p>
<p>Registering their first points of the competition in the final league game, Barbados Tridents managed an edgy six-wicket consolation win against Northern Knights in a rain-reduced Oppo Champions League Twenty20, here today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Chasing a Duckworth-Lewis revised target of 138 in a 19-over-a-side Group B game, The West Indian outfit got its target in 18.4 overs with James Franklin standing unbeaten on 33.<br /><br />The Tridents top-order showed little fight after a 31-run opening start Dilshan Munaweera (20), Raymon Reifer (15) and Jason Holder (11) were back in the dug out till the eight over.<br /><br />Left-arm orthodox Mitchell Santner (1-24) drew first blood after scalping Munaweera post his 14-ball quickfire.<br /><br />Indian-born leg-spinner Ish Sodhi (3-18) then swung into action and the New Zealander picked got Reifer and Holder in the space of three deliveries.<br /><br />Franklin and Jonathan Carter (30) then tried to pick the pieces by doing the grinding bit.<br />Carter got a life in the 11th over after the left-hander was dropped at deep mid-wicket off the bowling of Scott Styris (0-16) and he followed it up with a four in the next over.<br />Sodhi struck again in the 16th over but this time it a fielding brilliance to bring to an end Carter's 28-ball knock a 56-run fourth wicket-partnership.<br /><br />An outfield relay catch was once again at show as Devcich caught Carter's hit at mid-wicket and just as he was losing his balance off the ropes, he threw it back effortlessly to Daryl Mitchell, who completed the formality.<br /><br />The catch though did not bog down the Tridents' spirit as new-man Elton Chigumbura (18 not out) stuck it out with Franklin, who hit the winning boundary, to fetch their only four points in this edition.</p>