Sherfane Rutherford makes it three wins from three for Patriots

Sherfane Rutherford's second half-century of the CPL season guided St Kitts and Nevis Patriots to their third straight victory in a chase that had threatened to get out of hand before a late charge to the line.

After an opening stand of 69 in nine overs between Devon Thomas and Evin Lewis, Patriots stalled as they lost 3 for 4 - Imran Tahir removing both openers - and when Rutherford and Dwayne Bravo struggled to score at much more than a run-a-ball the asking rate blew out above 11 an over.

However, from needing 45 off 24 balls the game swung in Patriots' favour when Rutherford was spilled on the rope by Kevin Sinclair with the ball going for six. When the 18th over went for 13 it left 19 needed off the last two with plenty of wickets in hand.

The first three balls of the penultimate over threatened a twist when they brought just a single and the wicket of Bravo - taken at long-off against Naveen-ul-Haq - but a wide followed by two more sixes for Rutherford put any doubt to bed before Fabian Allen struck his first delivery for four.

Guyana Amazon Warriors' innings had been based around half-centuries from Mohammad Hafeez and Shimron Hetmyer in a 101-run stand for the second wicket. While Hetmyer scored at a good clip - his 52 taking 35 balls - Hafeez struggled to move through the gears with the pair falling in consecutive deliveries from Paul van Meekeren in the 18th over.

It meant that Nicholas Pooran was only able to face nine balls in the innings and overall the last four overs brought an underwhelming 30 runs as van Meekeren, Dominic Drakes and Bravo closed out strongly.