CPL T20/Getty Images**DJ RETURNS:** Dwayne Bravo of the Trinbago Knight Riders acknowledges his home crowd as he takes to the field during the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League match against the Guyana Amazon Warriors at the Queen's Park Oval, St.

Clair, last night.

- Photo: CPL T20/Getty ImagesThe Trinidad leg of the Dwayne Bravo CPL farewell show began in the perfect way, thanks to Andre Russell and Tim David last night.

Back-to-back sixes off Keemo Paul—one massive straight hit and another helped over backward square—pulled out a hard-fought five-wicket win for the Trinbago Knight Riders over the Guyana Amazon Warriors at the Queen’s Park Oval.

The boundaries were just two of the three that David struck in his unbeaten 31 off 24 balls.

But they were just as vital as the four maximums Russell bludgeoned in his 31 not out that turned the tide in a run chase the Amazon Warriors bowlers dominated for the most part.

“This one is for DJ Bravo,” Player-of-the-Match Russell said after the Knight Riders had completed their fourth win in five matches and condemned the defending champions to their second straight defeat.

The match was virtually a tribute piece to the all-rounder who has announced that this will be his last season in the Caribbean Premier League.

And TKR players and staff made it appear that this first match at home would be DJ Bravo’s last.

**DJ RETURNS:** Dwayne Bravo of the Trinbago Knight Riders acknowledges his home crowd as he takes to the field during the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League match against the Guyana Amazon Warriors at the Queen's Park Oval, St.

Clair, last night.

- Photo: CPL T20/Getty ImagesThe players all wore his No.

47 shirt.

And after captain Kieron Pollard won the toss and decided to field first, they gave their veteran a guard of honour right next to a banner that read: “Champion DJ Bravo.

” At the innings break, Bravo was driven around the field as he signed tennis balls and tossed them into the packed crowd.

But it took some doing, as the Amazon Warriors bowlers—spinners Nathan Sowter, Moeen Ali and seamers Shamar Joseph, Dwaine Pretorius and Paul—made the TKR batters fight for the win.

In the end, it took the combination of an early life for Russell and his sixth-wicket stand of 60 off 26 balls with David to pull off the victory after TKR had laboured to 89 for five at the end of the 15th over when Nicholas Pooran (19, 17 balls) missed a low Paul full toss and was given out lbw after a review by the Warriors.

The TKR acceleration came late, 19 coming in the 17th over when Russell went after the previously excellent Paul, bashing three of his sixes in that over.

The Warriors all-rounder did not bowl in the TKR run chase.

But his shadow lay over the match until the late innings work by Russell and David.

Earlier, Shepherd (50, 23 balls) and Pretorius (21, 25 balls) gave respectability to an Amazon Warriors innings in disarray, undermined by the clinical execution of their varied skills by the TKR spin trio of Waqar Salamkheil (4-0-19-2), Sunil Narine (4-0-24-2) and Akeal Hosein (4-0-20-1).

They accounted for six of the seven wickets to fall, Bravo, inevitably getting the other when he bowled Paul off the inside edge in the tenth over to leave the score at 50 for six.

Shimron Hetmyer (seven), opener Tim Robinson (34, 28 balls) and Paul perished in the space of nine balls between the ninth and tenth overs.

And in the 12th bowled by Narine, Motie was flummoxed and bowled by a ball that spun the other way from the off-spinner, while wicketkeeper Pooran smartly back-handed the ball onto the stumps to run out Moeen Ali.

TKR were sharp all around, the tone having been set by the earlier dismissals of the other opener, Kevin Sinclair, bowled by Hosein—the confused batter unsuccessfully reviewing what seemed a straightforward decision—and stand-in skipper Shai Hope, stumped as he missed a Narine off-break.

Motie’s departure at 76 for seven, forced Pretorius to join Shepherd with 48 balls left in the innings.

The pair of all-rounders coolly made the best use of the overs left, hitting five fours and four sixes between them in a stand that was worth an invaluable 72.

As formidable a striker of the ball as any in the Caribbean, Shepherd belted all the maximums, losing one ball in a Carib signboard from a smack over extra-cover off a Bravo full toss.

**Amazon Warriors 148-7, 20 overs** (Romario Shepherd 50 n.

o.

, Dwaine Pretorius 21 n.

o.

; Waqar Salamkheil 2/19, Sunil Narine 2/24) vs **TKR 149-5, 19.

2 overs** (Andre Russell 36 n.

o.

, Tim David 31 n.

o.

, Shaqkere Parris 29; Nathan Sowter 2/37).