CPL 2021: Guyana Amazon Warriors Full Squad

Guyana Amazon Warriors roped in 5 players in the CPL 2021 draft to finish their squad of 16. Each team is allowed to pick a maximum of 17 players including a maximum of 5 overseas cricketers. Warriors retained as many as 11 players going in to the draft after announcing Nicholas Pooran as their new captain.

Guyana Amazon Warriors got in their former players back in the form of Shoaib Malik and Mohammad Hafeez. Guyanese medium pacer Nial Smith got drafted in with no T20I matches to his name. 25-year old Smith has picked 20 First Class Wickets and 7 List A Wickets so far.

Also joining the Warriors is Gudakesh Motie-Kanhai – 26-year old left arm spinner with no T20 matches to his name. Motie picked 100 First Class wickets at an impressive average of 20.54. He also picked 27 List A wickets at an average of 23.66.

Waqar Salamkheil, the Afghanistan leg spinner who made his Test debut in March 2019 against Ireland, got picked the Guyana Amazon Warriors team. The left arm chinaman bowler has picked 33 T20 wickets at an average of 19.90 in 22 matches.

The tournament gets away from August 28 after a busy season for the West Indies at home with series lined up against South Africa, Australia and Pakistan. The CPL 2021 final is scheduled to place on September 19.

Guyana Amazon Warriors Squad:

Nicholas Pooran (captain), Shimron Hetmyer, Brandon King, Romario Shepherd, Chandrapaul Hemraj, Odean Smith, Nial Smith, Gudakesh Motie, Anthony Bramble, Kevin Sinclair, Ashmead Nedd

Overseas Players: Shoaib Malik, Imran Tahir, Mohammad Hafeez, Naveen ul Haq, Waqar Salamkheil

This year’s tournament will consist of 33 matches. The venue for all the matches will be Warner Park in St Kitts & Nevis. This follows the successful strategic plan of staging the Hero CPL in Trinidad & Tobago in 2020 where the matches took place at Brian Lara Stadium, Tarouba, Trinidad and Queen’s Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad.