Isuru Udana put the finishing touches on the chase after Ali Khan impressed with the ball
Trinbago Knight Riders 150 for 6 (Pollard 51) beat St Kitts and Nevis Patriots 147 for 7 (Da Silva 50, Khan 3-19) by four wickets
Knight Riders looked in danger of finishing third on the table, leaving them vulnerable to weather in the semi-finals, having slumped to 52 for 3 in the ninth over chasing Patriots target of 148. But Pollard plundered 51 off 22 balls to make the chase a formality.
The result meant Trinbago Knight Riders will face fourth-placed St Lucia Kings in the first semi-final while Patriots finished in third on the table and face Guyana Amazon Warriors in the other semi-final.
Pollard struck his first two balls for six off Jon-Russ Jaggesar to ease the tension. Two overs later he clubbed Jaggesar over the rope three more times to take 23 runs from the over to reduce the required run-rate from well over eight per over to just on a run-a-ball.
With Evin Lewis resting after his century the previous night, Da Silva got off to a brisk start alongside assistant coach Jonathan Carter, who was called in as an injury replacement at short notice. The pair scored 51 in the Powerplay after the early loss of Chris Gayle but the innings slowed through the middle overs.
Khan put the brakes on conceding eight from his first two overs and had Carter dropped twice. He was rewarded later in the innings when Da Silva scooped him straight to short fine to give him the final word in their verbal battle. Khan then removed Sherfane Rutherford with a searing yorker that ripped out off stump before Fabian Allen chopped on to hand Khan his second-best figures of the tournament.
Bravo stood firm smashing consecutive sixes from Ravi Rampaul to lift the total up to 147. Udana’s consecutive wickets in the 19th over, including Bravo, helped give Knight Riders a very chasable target.
Alex Malcolm is an Associate Editor at ESPNcricinfo
Source: ESPN Crickinfo