HAVING thrilled hundreds of thousands of cricket fans across the world during the Guyana leg of this year’s Limacol Caribbean Premier League (LCPL) T20 Championships, Guyana Amazon Warriors yesterday did the same for children at the Guyana Red Cross Children’s Convalescent Home.

The squad minus their Trinidad and Tobago teammates, distributed snacks, interacted with the children and later watched appreciatively as their skipper Ramnaresh Sarwan made a financial donation to the institution’s Administrator Erwin Enmore.
According to Sarwan, the undisclosed sum that was donated was generated from fines, which were levied against the players for various infringements as set out by the management team, while the players themselves chose to give same to a charitable organisation.
“On behalf of the Guyana Amazon Warriors, I would like to make this presentation to the Guyana Red Cross Children’s Convalescent Home and we do hope that it would make a meaningful and worthy contribution to their lives in whatever way the Administrators see it fit for,” said Sarwan.
A happy Enmore accepted the donation from Sarwan and took time to wish the Guyana Amazon Warriors all the best in their remaining matches of this year’s LCPL.
The Amazon Warriors played and defeated Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel and Jamaica Tallawahs in their first two matches, before going down to the St Lucia Zouks in their third and final home match last Sunday.
They will take on the Red Steel at the Queen’s Park Oval on Friday, followed by what can best be described as a top-of-the-table clash with the Barbados Tridents in the opening encounter of Sunday’s double-header, which will see the Red Steel and Antigua Hawksbills meet in the feature game.
Quizzed on his thoughts following the final over lost to the Zouks in last Sunday’s game, a smiling Sarwan said “Unfortunately we did not bat as well. I think we could have scored 15 more runs or so. Nevertheless, that is behind us now and we just have to focus on the remaining matches we have to play.
“It is important that we win the remaining four games. For us now, every game that we play is important and it is important that we continue that winning streak we had in the first two games, try and gain back the momentum from the first two games.”
Asked about handing Mohammed Hafeez the ball for the final over, Sarwan said it was a decision he made and would stand by.
“If he had won the game for us, I am sure persons would have been talking differently today. As a captain, it can go both ways and at the end of the day I will live by my decision and die by it. Obviously if we had won the game, many would have said it is the best thing that ever happened.
“It was a chance we had to take especially in the situation we were facing and the bowlers we had, I had to take a gamble. Nevertheless we have four more games ahead of us and as I said before, it is important that we get some winning momentum going into these games,” said Sarwan.