In the Caribbean Premier League (CPL), Guyana Amazon Warriors are maybe one of the most unfortunate team and in the upcoming CPL 2020, which is scheduled to be started on 18th August, they will need a changing playing strategy.
Since the commencement of CPL in the year 2013, the Guyana Amazon Warriors have reached runners-up five times and two times till the third position. In CPL 2020, can they make it possible to win the title? Stumpsandbails analyzed its complete details and come out with some valuable points.
So, let’s begin with its strength.
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Strength
Guyana Amazon Warriors is a good amalgamation of young talents as well as experience. Ross Taylor and Imran Tahir are superb young talents whereas the team is rich with experienced cricketers like Brandon King, Shimron Hetmyer, Sherfane Rutherford, Nicholas Pooran, etc.
In 2019 CPL, Tahir was the highest wicket-taker with a commendable economy of 5.62. In 9 games, he claimed 16. In wickets. In the same edition, King became the highest run-getter with a century and three fifties. In 12 matches, he scored 496 runs. If these players are able to click in this edition also, then we can expect that for the first time Guyana Amazon Warriors can win the title, which didn’t possible in the last seven editions.
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Weakness
Really, Warriors has a good mixture of experience and youth. But Taylor is not too young and Tahir is also in his 40S. They have to stretch their all strength this time. Also, Guyana Amazon Warriors is mostly dependent upon its local players and youngsters. A couple of them are really new and that could build obstacles when the team proceeds towards final, where pressure handling capacity matters.
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The Squad
Imran Tahir, Brandon King, Ross Taylor, Naveen Ul Haq, Nicholas Pooran, Shimron Hetmyer, Chris Green, Keemo Paul, Sherfane Rutherford, Qais Ahmad, Romario Shepherd, Ashmeade Nedd, Chandrapaul Hemraj, Kevin Sinclair, Jasdeep Singh, Odean Smith, Anthony Bramble.
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Stars to watch
Ross Taylor, Imran Tahir, Brandon King, Sherfane Rutherford, Shimron Hetmyer, Nicholas Pooran.
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Prediction
Once again Guyana Amazon Warriors should make it to the Qualifiers.
