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Our aim is to peak at the back end of the tournament – GAW Captain Green
Chris Green
Captain of the Guyana Amazon Warriors (GAW) Chris Green said their aim is to be peaking at the back end of the tournament. Following their three-wicket win over the St. Kitts and Nevis Patriots on Wednesday night at the Brian Lara Stadium in their second game of this year’s CPL.
Green said they want to continue to get better and better: “There is no point peaking in game one and two, we want to be peaking at the back end of this tournament and that’s what our aim is, and doing something we haven’t done yet,” he noted.
Despite the win, Green stated that there are some areas they want to improve in. “We certainly like to keep it as generic as possible and learn off the positives. There are a few things that we want to tighten on. In game one we missed our lengths at times and I thought we were excellent in this game. From the batting in this game, our key will be multiple wickets and we want to try and continue to get better and look at the back end of this tournament.”
Green pointed out that it’s great to get their campaign up and running. “We had a tough scrappy game in our first match, so we spoke before this game about just tightening a few things with the ball and that’s our blueprint moving forward. We can keep getting better from there and I think that’s really exciting for us.”
Green commended man-of-the-match Keemo Paul and Shimron Hetmyer on their outstanding performances. Paul picked up 4-19 while Hetmyer struck his second half century to lead the Warriors chase.
“Keemo is really determined, you can see the fire is his eyes, it’s a different Keemo Paul. For me as a captain and for us as a team I just want to run off and give him those opportunities he is asking for.”
“Hetmyer is outstanding, batting at three in a T20 tournament is a tough position and he has played the perfect blue print for us, being that guy where we have the hitters to bat around him and set up our run chase really well.”
The Warriors lost a few quick wickets in latter stages of their chase, but Green noted that it’s something they have to look at moving forward. “It’s just about being switched on in the moment, loosing multiple wickets put us a little bit backwards. We spoke about not loosing multiple wickets because that put some pressure on us and it’s something we have to get better at, particular in these low chases and moving forward.”
The Patriots Captain Rayad Emrit felt they came up short in their batting. “We fell short by some 25 runs, 150 would have been perfect on this pitch, it’s a bit tricky, the power play is a bit easy, but it gets challenging in the middle overs.”
“We know that we are a bit short of a batter at the end to hit the ball and there is a lot of pressure on Evin (Lewis) and Chris (Lynn). They know that they have to be responsible; we sort of got off to a decent start but losing Evin in the last over of the power play set us back. Having a good start is important and having Evin in the middle overs as well, he can get the spinners away, we need one of our senior batters in the latter stages”.
While their batting fell short, Emrit said their bowling is their strength. “We have a decent bowling attack, this is our strength, we missed Sohail (Tanvir) in this game, but Drakes and Jaggessar did a decent job, if we can get 150 on the board the bowlers can have something to work with.” The Warriors next game in on Saturday (tomorrow) against the Jamaica Tallawahs from 14:15hrs.
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