Guyana Amazon Warriors

Guyana Amazon Warriors
Captain: Trinidad and Tobago Rayad Emrit
Coach: Guyana Roger Harper
Colours:      Gold      Green      Red      Black      White
Founded: 2013
Home ground: Providence Stadium
Capacity: 15,000
CPL wins: 0

The Guyana Amazon Warriors are a franchise cricket team of the Caribbean Premier League based in Providence, Georgetown, Guyana. The team is the representative cricket team of Guyana in the Caribbean Premier League. It was one of the six teams created in 2013 for the inaugural season of the tournament.

The team will play its home games at Providence Stadium, located in Guyana and like the league's other franchises, draw the majority of its players from West Indian domestic teams. Former Guyanese cricket Roger Harper was confirmed as the franchise's inaugural coach in early February 2015.

History

The Guyana Amazon Warriors were one of the six teams created for the Caribbean Premier League's inaugural 2013 season. In 2013, they were runners up in the first tournament and were defeated by the Jamaica Tallawahs by 7 wickets at Queen's Park Oval in Port of Spain, Trinidad.[1] The team was captained by Ramnaresh Sarwan which included overseas star like Tillakaratne Dilshan, James Franklin, Lasith Malinga as well as West Indian stars Sunil Narine, Lendl Simmons, Denesh Ramdin etc. Krishmar Santokie was leading wicket-taker in the season.[2]

In 2014, they were finished second in group stage behind Barbados Tridents and were again defeated by the Barbados Tridents by 8 runs (D/L) in final played at Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts.[3] The team was captained by Sunil Narine which included overseas star like Martin Guptill, Mohammad Hafeez, Jimmy Neesham as well as West Indian stars Krishmar Santokie, Lendl Simmons, Denesh Ramdin etc. Lendl Simmons with his 445 runs in the season was Player of the series.[4][5][6]

In 2015, they again finished second in group stage behind Barbados Tridents but lost to Trinbago Knight Riders in semi-final by 6 wickets played at Queen's Park Oval in Port of Spain, Trinidad.[7] The team was captained by Denesh Ramdin which included overseas star like Lasith Malinga, Thisara Perera, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Brad Hodge, Marchant de Lange, David Wiese and Umar Akmal as well as West Indian stars Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Veerasammy Permaul, Lendl Simmons, Sunil Narine etc.

For 2016 Caribbean Premier League, Amazon Warriors roped in Martin Guptill as their captain replacing Denesh Ramdin and was joined by International cricketer like Sohail Tanvir, Dwayne Smith, Chris Lynn and Adam Zampa as well as some local star like Chris Barnwell, Jason Mohammed, Rayad Emrit etc.[8][9]

Squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No. Name[10] Nat Birth date Batting style Bowling style Notes
Batsmen
34 Martin Guptill New Zealand 30 September 1986 RightRight-arm off break Captain & International Player
Assad Fudadin Guyana 1 July 1985 Right Right-arm medium
Yuvraj Singh India 26 December 1985 Left Right-arm Legbreak googly
Chris Lynn Australia 10 April 1990 Right Slow left-arm orthodox
Jason Mohammed Trinidad and Tobago 23 September 1986 Right Right-arm offbreak
Orlando Peters Antigua and Barbuda 10 May 1988 Left Right-arm medium
Wicketkeeper
Anthony Bramble Guyana 11 December 1990 Right n/a
Steven Katwaroo Trinidad and Tobago 14 January 1993 Right n/a
All-rounders
50 Dwayne Smith Barbados 12 April 1983 Right Right-arm medium
90 Christopher Barnwell Guyana 6 January 1987 Right Right-arm medium-fast
90 Rayad Emrit Trinidad and Tobago 8 March 1981 Right Right-arm medium-fast
Sohail Tanvir Pakistan 12 December 1984 Left Left-arm medium-fast
Bowler
13 Steven Jacobs Guyana 13 September 1988 Right Right-arm off break
Ali Khan United States 13 December 1990 Right Right-arm medium
94 Veerasammy Permaul Guyana 11 August 1989 Right Slow left arm orthodox
33 Paul Wintz Guyana 7 March 1986 Right Right-arm fast-medium
Adam Zampa Australia 31 March 1992 Right Right-arm Legbreak googly

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