{"id":23170,"date":"2024-09-23T20:20:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T20:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=23170"},"modified":"2024-09-23T20:20:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T20:20:47","slug":"guyana-amazon-warriors-suffer-back-to-back-defeats-ahead-of-cpl-home-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/guyana-amazon-warriors-suffer-back-to-back-defeats-ahead-of-cpl-home-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana Amazon Warriors Suffer Back-to-Back Defeats Ahead of CPL Home Leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Defending champions Guyana Amazon Warriors faced another setback in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) 2024, losing by five wickets to Trinbago Knight Riders in Port of Spain on Wednesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This defeat marked the Warriors&#8217; third loss in the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Batting first, the Warriors struggled initially, finding themselves at 56 for 4 within just 8.4 overs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key players Kevin Sinclair (9), Shai Hope (5), Shimron Hetmyer (7), and Tim Robinson (34) were dismissed early, leaving the team in a precarious position. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Romario Shepherd displayed resilience, scoring an unbeaten 51 off 24 balls, supported by Dwaine Pretorius, who contributed 21 runs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This effort helped the Warriors reach a total of 148 for 7 in their allotted overs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, the Knight Riders managed to chase down the target, finishing with 149 for 5 in 19.2 overs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andre Russell played a pivotal role for TKR, remaining not out on 36 runs, alongside Tim David, who scored 31. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the Warriors applied pressure by taking five wickets for 89 runs in 15 overs, they couldn&#8217;t contain the Knight Riders&#8217; aggressive batting, particularly Russell&#8217;s powerful innings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nathan Sowter had a notable debut for the Warriors, taking two wickets, while Keemo Paul, Shamar Joseph, and Moeen Ali each claimed one wicket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the team looks to regroup, they prepare for their upcoming home matches in the CPL, hoping to turn their fortunes around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champions Guyana Amazon Warriors faced another setback in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) 2024, losing by five wickets to Trinbago Knight Riders in Port of Spain on Wednesday. This&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23173,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23170\/revisions\/23173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}