The last time the Guyana Amazon Warriors and the St Kitts Patriots met Warriors skipper Denesh Ramdin struck a match-winning 50 to help his team thump the Marlon Samuels-led team by seven wickets.
The Warriors, with only one win to date, will be hoping for a similar result when the two teams clash today at Warner Park, Basseterre, St. Kitts in a much-anticipated fixture.
In their previous match the Warriors let the Red Steel off the hook when leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo, who had melted the Red Steel’s line up with a four-wicket haul, inexplicably bowled a no-ball off the final delivery, which allowed the Red Steel batsmen one free hit which disappeared into the night sky taking with it the Warriors’ hopes of victory in the low-scoring contest.
The St. Kitts Patriots will look to the players who inspired their defeat of the Barbados Tridents recently.
Those players are form batsman Marlon Samuels, who struck an unbeaten 71 gainst the defending champs while leg-spinners Tabraiz Shamsi and Shahid Afridi combined to take seven wickets between them which inspired a comprehensive eight-wicket win for the Patriots.
With the Patriots seeming as if they have begun to peak and with the Warriors in start-stop mode, today’s match will be an intriguing one.
For the Warriors, Brad Hodge, Ramdin, Chris Barnwell, Lendl Simmons and the others will be needed to get clicking if the team is to post a winning total.
Ramdin’s 50 was his first half-century of the competition but
