Guyana Amazon Warriors

Guyana Amazon Warriors
Personnel
Captain Pakistan Shoaib Malik
Coach South Africa Johan Botha
Team information
Colours      Gold      Green      Red      Black      White
Founded 2013
Home ground Providence Stadium
Capacity 15,000
History
CPL wins 0
Official website: Guyana Amazon Warriors

T20I kit

The Guyana Amazon Warriors is 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 legend 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 finished second in the group stage behind the Barbados Tridents and were again defeated by the Barbados Tridents by 8 runs (D/L) in the final played at Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts.[3] The team was captained by Sunil Narine which included overseas stars 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]

Current squad

As of 03:12, Saturday, October 13, 2018 (UTC)
No. Name Nat Birth date Batting style Bowling style Signed Year Notes
Batsmen
93Jason MohammedTrinidad and Tobago23 September 1986Right-handedRight-arm off break2017
3Shimron HetmyerGuyana26 December 1996Left-handedRight-arm leg break2016
46Gajanand SinghGuyana3 October 1987Left-handedLeft-arm medium2017
89Cameron DelportSouth Africa12 May 1989Left-handedRight-arm medium2018Overseas
—Akshaya PersaudGuyana1 July 1997Left-handedRight-arm medium-fast2018
All-rounders
18Shoaib MalikPakistan1 February 1982Right-handedRight-arm off break2018Overseas, Unavailable
33Sohail TanvirPakistan12 December 1984Left-handedLeft-arm medium-fast2017Overseas
84Keemo PaulGuyana21 February 1998Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium2017
50Sherfane RutherfordGuyana15 August 1998Right-handedRight-arm fast medium2017
69Roshon PrimusBarbados14 August 1995Right-handedRight-arm medium2017
Wicket-keepers
54Luke RonchiNew Zealand23 April 1981Right-handed—2017Overseas
59Chadwick WaltonJamaica3 July 1985Right-handed—2017
Bowlers
99Imran TahirSouth Africa27 March 1979Right-handedRight-arm leg break2018Overseas
51Rayad EmritTrinidad and Tobago8 March 1981Right-handedRight-arm medium-fast2016
20Saurabh NetravalkarUnited States16 October 1991Right-handedLeft-arm fast medium2018Overseas
70Devendra BishooGuyana6 November 1985Left-handedRight-arm leg break2013
94Veerasammy PermaulGuyana11 August 1989Right-handedSlow left-arm orthodox2014
48Romario ShepherdGuyana26 November 1994Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium2018
—Chris GreenAustralia1 October 1993Right-handedRight-arm off break2018Captain, Overseas

Results

References

  1. ↑ 2013 Caribbean Premier League - Final
  2. ↑ "Caribbean Premier League, 2013 / Records / Most wickets". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
  3. ↑ 2014 Caribbean Premier League - Final
  4. ↑ "Tridents win rain-marred CPL final". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  5. ↑ "Caribbean Premier League, 2014 / Records / Most runs". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  6. ↑ "Caribbean Premier League, 2014 / Records / Most runs". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  7. ↑ 2015 Caribbean Premier League - semi-final
  8. ↑ "Caribbean Premier League squads finalised". Cricinfo. ESPN. 3 May 2016. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
  9. ↑ Guptill named captain of Guyana Amazon Warriors


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