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Confident Amazon Warriors hunting third win tonight against St Lucia Zouks …Tallawahs face Hawksbills
By Avenash Ramzan
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iding high on confidence after two consecutive victories and sitting pretty in pole position, Guyana Amazon Warriors will collide with the St Lucia Zouks in the feature match of a doubleheader when action in the inaugural Limacol Caribbean Premier League (CPL) continues tonight at the Guyana National Stadium. While Amazon Warriors will be hunting a third successive win to solidify their position as one of the tournament favourites, the Zouks will look to get their campaign back on track after losing their opening game to the Barbados Tridents by 17 runs. Coach of the Amazon Warriors, Roger Harper, speaking to local media on the eve of the match, refrained from making any bold predictions, noting that his team’s approach will be no different from the previous two games. “Our game plan remains the same. We’ve won all our games by playing good basic cricket and that is what we plan to do tomorrow [today],” Harper commented. Following a 19-run win over the Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel last Wednesday to get their campaign underway, the Amazon Warriors completely outplayed the Jamaica Tallawahs, crushing them by eight wickets on Friday. The flawless start injected a tremendous amount of confidence in the camp, and that is something Harper is hoping to use to his advantage going forward in the tournament. “We played well in all departments on Friday night and we would like to continue in that vein and even take it up a notch,” the former West Indies vice-captain pointed out. He added, “We’re delighted to be in the position we’re in, but we know our next game is always our most important so we’re doing our
Amazon Warriors Coach Roger Harper
St Lucia Zouks Coach Andy Roberts
Jamaica Tallawahs Coach Paul Nixon
Antigua Hawksbills Coach Sir Vivian Richards
best to focus on that.” Harper’s counterpart in the St Lucia Zouks camp, Andy Roberts, is optimistic the Darren Sammy led franchise can rebound from their opening loss. According to the former
good game against Barbados, but we let it slip in about five minutes on either side, bowling and batting, and that’s when the game got away from us,” Roberts recalled. With a few days to rectify their mistakes from the first
same as the first 10 overs. Also batting; our first 10 overs were in comparison to any team. I think we had a good start, but once again we let it slip. I think it’s lack of confidence in some of the batsmen,” Roberts acknowl-
seemingly crusing to victory at 90-2 in 10 overs before a massive collapse saw them being dismissed for 152. The Zouks would no doubt want to remedy that situation tonight, but in
edged. In that game, the St Lucia Zouks had the Barbados Tridents at 48-4 in the eighth over before a Kieron Pollard blitz and a solid 78 from Shoaib Malik took them to 169-5. The Zouks were then
their path is a rampant Amazon Warriors looking to end their home games with an unblemished record in front of another sold out crowd. The action will bowl off at 20:00 hours. Meanwhile, the Jamaica
The St Lucia Zouks planning their strategy ahead of today’s game
West Indies fast bowling great, it was a just a few moments of lapses that caused their demise in the opening match of the tournament on Tuesday. “Well, we’re confident you know. We’re fairly confident because we played a fairly
game, Roberts pointed out some of the areas that were given added attention in the lead-up to today’s crucial encounter. “We had lacked intensity while we were out in the field between overs number 10 and 20. It wasn’t the
Tallawahs and Antigua Hawksbills will look to register their first win of the Limacol CPL tournament when they clash with each other from 15:00h. The Jamaica Tallawahs were crushed by eight wickets by the local franchise Friday evening while the Antigua Hawksbills surrendered to the Barbados Tridents by 12 runs on Thursday night. Both teams promised to put the bad memory of their first failure behind them and look forward for a better result today. Guyana Amazon Warriors: Ramnaresh Sarwan (captain), Sunil Narine, Mohammad Hafeez, Lendl Simmons, Denesh Ramdin, James Franklin, Christopher Barnwell, Krishmar Santokie, William Perkins, Steven Jacobs, Keon Joseph, Trevon Griffith, Narsingh Deonarine, Veerasammy Permaul and Martin Guptill. St Lucia Zouks: Darren Sammy (captain), Herschelle Gibbs, Albie Morkel, Tino Best, Tamim Iqbal, Misbahul-Haq, Shane Shillingford, Devon Smith, Andre Fletcher, Garey Mathurin, Liam Sebastian, Dalton Polius, Kaveem Hodge, Kenroy Peters and Nelon Pascal. Antigua Hawksbills: Marlon Samuels (captain), Steven Smith, Kemar Roach, Kieran Powell, Johnson Charles, Ricky Ponting, Gavin Tonge, Sheldon Cotterrell, Dave Mohammed, Devon Thomas, Justin Miles Kemp, Rahkeem Cornwall, Anthony Martin, Montcin Hodge and Jahmar Hamilton. Jamaica Tallawahs: Chris Gayle (captain), Ahmed Shehzad, Carlton Baugh, David Bernard, Jermaine Blackwood, Nkrumah Bonner, Akeem Dewar, Danza Hyatt, Nikita Miller, Muttiah Muralitharan, Vernon Philander, Andrew Richardson, Jacques Rudolph, Andre Russell, and Chadwick Walton.
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