Just like Indian Premier League, CPL T20 which is known as Caribbean Premier league is a T20 cricket tournament held every year in Caribbean countries. Guyana Amazon Warriors is one of the six teams of the tournament, and also one of the most successful cricket team of the league. They never won the title yet but reached to the finals of tournament two times in 2013 and 2014. The GAW Team for CPL 2017 has been announced and Martin Guptill will be the captain of the team where Roger Harper will be the head coach of the team. Providence Stadium will be the home ground of the team.
The team represent Guyana country as the name suggest. The country already gave many cricketers to the West Indies team like Carl Hooper, Alvin Kallicharran, Rohan Kanhai, Clive Lloyd and the young generation who don’t know about them Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ramnaresh Sarwan who are current member of West Indies team came from the same country. So this shows how cricket is a popular sport of this country.
Guyana Amazon Warriors Squad for CPL 2017 season:-
Here are the players which are selected for the upcoming tournament from the draft :-
- Sohail Tanvir
- Martin Guptill
- Chadwick Antonio Kirkpatrick Walton
- Chris Lynn
- Rayad Ryan Emrit
- Rashid Khan
- Jason Nazimuddin Mohammed
- Steven Ryan Taylor
- Veerasammy Permaul
- Roshan Primus
- Gajanand Singh
- Assad Badyr Fudadin
- Keon Joseph
- Steven Anthony Jacobs
- Stephen Katwaroo
- Muhammad Ahsan Ali Khan
- ShimronHetmeyer
Coaching Staff of the Team :-
- Head Coach: Roger Harper
- Assistant: Esuan Crandon
Also Check: Barbados Trident Team and their Players
The Caribbean Premier League T20 2017 is starting from 04th August 2017, you can download CPL 2017 Schedule from here.