The second game of Caribbean Premier League will be played between Guyana Amazon Warriors and St Lucia Zouks at Providence Stadium – Providence, Guyana on Thursday.
Zouks have faced a lot of player dismissals, with Lasith Malinga and Niroshan Dickwella’s international commitments ruling them out of the tournament, along with Beuran Hendricks.
Darren Sammy will lead the team, with Andre Fletcher and Rahkeem Cornwall also in the squad. One of the best things happened with Zouks is Fawad Ahmed, the last season’s leading wicket-taker as he helped Trinbago Knight Riders to victory.
Meanwhile, Warriors are stuffed with Shimron Hetmyer, who was in good form last season and along with N Pooran, he will lead the batting department.
The match is set to begin at 3:30 AM IST.
GUY vs SLZ, 2nd Match, Caribbean Premier League 2019
Providence Stadium – Providence, Guyana
6th Sept 2019, 3:30 AM IST
The pitch was recently used on India’s tour of the West Indies with offering good assistance to the bowlers. There are chances of rain in the morning, but not during match time.
GAY: L W W L L
SLZ: NA
Matches played: 11
GAY Won: 7
SLZ Won: 4
GAY Team News:
SLZ Team News:
SLZ Squad
Darren Sammy(c), Andre Fletcher, Ronald Cato, Andre McCarthy, Keddy Lesporis, Nitish Kumar, Kesrick Williams, John Campbell, Christopher Barnwell, Thisara Perera, Rahkeem Cornwall, Jeavor Royal, Cameron Delport, Krishmar Santokie, Fawad Ahmed, Obed McCoy, Beuran Hendricks.
GUY Squad
Shoaib Malik(c), Shimron Hetmyer, Brandon King, Keegan Simmons, Veerasammy Permaul, Sherfane Rutherford, Chandrapaul Hemraj, Clinton Pestano, Shadab Khan, Chris Green, Saurabh Netravalkar, Keemo Paul, Nicholas Pooran, Anthony Bramble, Ben Laughlin, Romario Shepherd, Odean Smith.
Guyana Amazon Warriors Probable11:
Brandon King/Chanderpaul Hemraj, Shadab Khan, Shoaib Malik, Keemo Paul, Imran Tahir, Chris Green, R Shepherd,Nicholas Pooran, Anthony Bramble, Shimron Hetmyer, Sherfane Rutherford
St Lucia Zouks Probable11:
Darren Sammy, Rakheem Cornwall, Christopher Barnwell, Fawad Ahmed, K Santokie, Kesrick Williams, Andre Fletcher, Jonathan Campbell, Cameron Delport, N Zadran, A McCarthy
Fantasy picks from Warriors:
Shimron Hetmyer was the top scorer for Warriors with 440 runs from his 12 innings, including one century and two half-centuries.
Wicket-keeper-batsman was in good form at the English T20 Blast before joining up with West Indies for the T20 series against India. Well, he has scored 274 runs from 14 T20I innings.
New signing Shadab Khan was lethal with the ball at he Global T20 Canada with plucking 9 wickets from five games.
Fantasy picks from Zouks:
Fawad Ahmed was the leading wicket-taker at the bowling chart, helping Trinbago Knight Riders claim victory last year, taking 22 wickets in 13 games.
Cameron Delport has been consistent with his performance inT20 format. He has amassed 4883 runs from 199 innings in T20’s which includes 2 fifties.
Darren Sammy suffered fitness issues but his 33 runs on his return to playing the Brampton Wolves in Canada last month was enough to boost up the captain.