AMAZON Warriors Coach Carl Hooper has blamed the loss of the third home game of the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) match against the Barbados Tridents, to slow scoring rate by his batsmen. Speaking during the post match on Saturday, the coach indicated that the score was nothing special to chase down. “I think 125 was perfectly gettable, probably batted a little too slowly up front, but having said that, credit to the Barbadian bowlers. I thought they bowled well and they used the conditions probably a little bit better than us and made it a bit difficult.”
Hooper also commented on the use of Aussie Brad Hodge to open the batting as against Assad Fudadin, who had shared the role in the previous game.
“Brad obviously prefers the ball coming on more and the ball being a bit harder in the first 6 overs, the power play, and we thought that it might have been a good idea to get him to go through and over the field. Probably didn’t work out as well as we wanted to, but having said that, we just generally battled slow.”
Meanwhile, the Warriors Captain Denesh Ramdin lauded the bowling unit but reminded the rest of the Warriors that boundaries are not the only scoring options in the shortest format of the game.
“I’m quite happy with the bowling department. I think that we have been bowling brilliantly throughout the tournament and our batting has been there and there about. I think that it’s very important that we go back to the drawing board and look at getting ones and twos.
“In t20 cricket, those are still scoring opportunities where when you get ones and twos and you bring it down to the later stages of the game. If we had done that probably in the middle and in the first six overs and the last couple overs if we needed 10 or so, it would have been a different ball game coming down. The last 3 overs we didn’t get as much as we wanted to, we had a 2 and a 3 here and there.”
The Warriors had a rest day yesterday (Sunday) and return to training today (Monday) ahead of their game against the inform Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel at the National Stadium Providence on Tuesday.