Guyana Amazon Warriors pre-tournament camp begins tomorrow
Roger Harper
Roger Harper

By Rajiv Bisnauth

THE Guyana Amazon Warriors will commence a one-week training camp under the guidance of Head Coach Roger Harper tomorrow at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

The camp, a customary practice for teams preparing for competitions, is a vital one for the South America-based franchise, who will look to cram a heavy workload into the next week with the aim of getting in peak condition for the Hero Caribbean Premier League.

Skipper Martin Guptill and leg-spinner Adam Zampa, will not be available for the camp.

Guptill is currently playing county cricket in England, while leg-spinner Zampa is part of the Australia line-up for the ongoing Ballr Tri-Nation Series.

Apart from the two players, the remainder of the squad will be available.

The Warriors have gone for 11 regional-based players including Barbados’s Dwayne Smith, Trinidad and Tobago’s Jason Mohammed, Rayad Emrit and Steven Katwaroo; Antigua’s Orlando Peters, Guyana’s Assad Fudadin, Christopher Barnwell, Steven Jacobs, Veerasammy Permaul, Paul Wintz and Anthony Bramble. The squad also includes Australia’s Chris Lynn, Sohail Tanvir of Pakistan, and Muhammad Ahsan Ali Khan (ICC Americas).

Winning West Indies Youth World Cup captain Shimron Hetmyer was selected as the Under-19 player.

The local franchise has taken a decision to include Under-19 players, Akshaya Persaud, Keemo Paul and Tevin Imlach as part of the camp in order to have them exposed at a different level.

The Guyana Amazon Warriors will play 10 games in the preliminary phase of the League, with four matches in Guyana, two in Florida, and one each in Trinidad and Tobago, St Kitts and Nevis, Jamaica and St Lucia. Hero CPL 2016 will be held from June 29 to August 7.

The Amazon Warriors have been one of the most consistent performers in the CPL. They reached the final in the inaugural 2013 season, when they were beaten by the Jamaica Tallawahs and repeated their feat the following year, only to be downed by Barbados Tridents in a dramatic final in St Kitts.

 

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