CPL practice match washed out at Providence

Jun 17, 2015 Sports

Guyana opens campaign against defending Champs B’dos on Saturday

By Sean Devers
The second practice match for the Guyana Amazon Warriors was washed out at the Providence Stadium before a ball was bowled in the game due to persistent rain all afternoon, yesterday. The match was scheduled to commence at 16:00hrs but was eventually called off at 18:30hrs as rain fell consistently on the East Bank of Demerara all afternoon.

Rain pours down on the Providence Stadium.

The game was organized as preparation for the 2015 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) T20 tournament which starts on Saturday with the Guyana Franchise taking on defending champions Barbados in the Land of the Flying Fish.
Most of the players in the Amazon Warriors are scheduled to depart for Barbados today while the two Sri Lankans (Thisara Perera and Tillakaratne Dilshan), South African Merchant DeLange (who replaces Lasith Malinga) and West Indies Captain Denish Ramdin will join the team tomorrow.
Perera and Dilshan will only play the first four games before being replaced by Pakistani Umar Akmal and South African David Wiese. The fourth overseas International, Australian Brad Hodge is already in the Guyana and along the with T&T’s off-spinner Sunil Narine (the most expensive player in the local Franchise at US $150,000) and Lindl Simmons played in Monday night’s first practice game.
West Indies and Guyana’s spin twins Devendra Bishoo and Veerasammy Permaul are also members of the Amazon Warriors and are in the country. The Warriors are the most consistent team in the two-year history of the CPL reaching the finals on both occasions.
They have never won the title, losing to Jamaica in 2013 and Barbados last year in controversial fashion. After playing a single game in Barbados the Warriors travel to St Lucia for their second game on June 26 when they face the St Lucia Zouks before going to St Kitts for three matches against the St Kitts & Nevis Patriots (July 3), Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel (July 4) and again against the Patriots on July 8 before moving to Jamaica to face-off with the Jamaica Tallawahs on July 12.
The Guyanese Franchise returns to their home base to play four matches in six days. They oppose Jamaica (July 15), Barbados (July 17), St Lucia (July 18) and T&T (July 21). The tournament moves to Trinidad for the first semi final on July 23, the second semi on July 25 while the grand Final is set for Sunday July 26.
Guyana Amazon Warriors Team Squad: Denesh Ramdin, Veerasammy Permaul, Sunil Narine, Christopher Barnwell, Lendl Simmons, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Marchant de Lange, Thisara Perera, Brad Hodge, Devendra Bishoo, Ronsford Beaton, Trevon Griffith, Assad Fudadin, Paul Wintz. (Umar Akmal and David Wiese as replacements for Dilshan and Perera).
Support Staff: Carl Hooper (Head Coach), Curtly Ambrose (Assistant Coach-Antigua), Omar Khan (Manager-T&T), Jason Pilgrim (Physio-T&T), Clinton Jerimiah (Trainer-T&T).