GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — St Lucia Stars’ already dreadful season lurched towards complete disaster when they crashed to their seventh defeat of the Caribbean Premier League, going down by seven wickets to Guyana Amazon Warriors here Tuesday night.

In perhaps their worst display of a wretched campaign, they were restricted to a paltry 100 for seven off their 20 overs with Jesse Ryder top-scoring with 29.

Exciting Afghan leg-spinner Rashid Khan claimed two for 19, while seamer Rayad Emrit finished with two for 26.

In reply, Amazon Warriors lost a wicket off their first ball of the innings but recovered to easily stroll to their target in the 15th over.

Jason Mohammed sustained his decent form with an unbeaten 42, while Pakistan’s Sohail Tanvir hit 38 to secure Amazon Warriors an all-important third win of the season, allowing them to leapfrog Barbados Tridents into fourth place on six points.

Stars, meanwhile, continued bottom of the standings with a single point — from a no-result — in their eight outings.

Sent in at the Guyana National Stadium, Stars were tottering on six for two in the fourth over after losing Andre Fletcher for one and Captain Shane Watson without scoring.

New Zealander Ryder then tried to hold the innings together, putting on 29 for the third wicket with opener Johnson Charles who scored 15.

Ryder struck three fours in a 30-ball knock, but he and Charles fell in the space of 15 balls to leave the Stars struggling again on 47 for four in the 11th.

Discarded skipper Darren Sammy, with 19, and Sunil Ambris, 15 not out, added 26 for the fifth wicket, but the partnership required 30 balls and the innings petered out tamely in the end.

Hope abounded for Stars when fast bowler Jerome Taylor trapped Chadwick Walton lbw with a full-length delivery off the first ball of the innings.

And when New Zealander Martin Guptill missed a charge at off-spinner Rahkeem Cornwall and was stumped for eight at 22 for two in the fourth, Stars were scenting a come-from-behind win.

But that optimism soon faded as the enterprising Mohammed anchored two stands to put the innings back on course.

First, he put on 51 for the third wicket with Tanvir, who blasted five fours and a six in a 29-ball cameo, before putting on a further 28 in an unbroken fourth-wicket partnership with Ganajand Singh who finished eight not out.

All told, Mohammed faced 35 balls and counted three fours and two sixes.