THE Guyana Amazon Warriors made a promising start to their 2025 Women’s CPL campaign when they defeated Trinidad Knight Riders by six runs at the Providence Stadium yesterday.
On the back of a 70-run stand between Stafanie Taylor (45) and Realeanna Grimmond (33), the Lady Warriors reached 129-7 when their 20 overs expired.
Ashmini Munisar and Laura Harris took three wickets each to restrict the visitors to 123-9, despite Lizelle Lee’s 36 with six boundaries and Jess Jonassen’s 22 with three fours.
When the Knight Riders began their chase, South African Lee and West Indies keeper Rashada Williams (1) increased the score to 25 before Williams was LBW to 22-year-old Munisar. Jonassen joined Lee and, with positive batting, saw the 50 up in 8.4 overs.

With the score on 65, Molly Penfold pulled off a stupendous catch on the mid-wicket boundary; she caught the ball but threw it into the air as she overbalanced over the ropes, but returned to the field to complete the catch.

Her brilliant effort resulted in the demise of Jonassen (22) as off-spinner Karishma Ramharack struck at 65-2.
Lee (36) ran past Munisar two runs later before Skipper Deandra Dottin (14) deposited Australian Harris for six before drilling a return catch to the bowler next ball at 89-4.
Harris then bowled Jahzara Claxton (15) at 103-5 before the next four wickets tumbled for 20 runs
Earlier, the ladies from the Guyana Amazon Warriors were invited to bat in sweltering heat on a lightning-fast outfield.
They were off to an inauspicious start when Amy Hunter (3) from Ireland fell to Jonassen at 3-1 in the second over.
Former West Indies Captain Taylor joined Berbician Grimmond, and the pair took the score to 50 in 7.3 overs.

After 10 overs, the female Warriors were 65-1 with both batters on 31 as they orchestrated ‘operation rebuild’ before a handful of spectators.
The 20-year-old lass from Rose Hall Town matched the more experienced 34-year-old Jamaican shot for shot before she departed at 73-2 in the 12th over.
Jahzara Claxton broke the 70-run stand, from just 64 balls, when she removed Grimmond for 33 with four fours and six.

Grimmond’s demise brought fellow Rose Hall Town batter and Warriors Skipper, Shemaine Campbelle, to the crease, but she did not last long.
The 33-year-old Campbell (5) was beaten by a flighted delivery from Samara Ramnath and bowled to leave the score on 89-3.
When five short of her half-century, Taylor, who has played 126 T20s for the West Indies, was run out at 94-4 after facing 37 balls and hitting five fours and a six in her entertaining 45.
The 35-year-old Australian, Laura Harris (14) and Guyana and West Indies fast bowler Cherry-Ann Fraser (1) were dismissed in the space of a run as the Warriors slipped to 116-6 in the penultimate over.
Munisar (2) was run out in the final over as Jonassen took 2- 18.