{"id":23619,"date":"2024-10-28T16:57:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T16:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=23619"},"modified":"2024-10-28T16:58:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T16:58:05","slug":"gurbaz-and-hope-propel-guyana-amazon-warriors-into-cpl-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/gurbaz-and-hope-propel-guyana-amazon-warriors-into-cpl-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Gurbaz and Hope Propel Guyana Amazon Warriors into CPL Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>October 5, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Guyana Amazon Warriors (GAW) advanced to the final of the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League following a dominant all-round performance against the Barbados Royals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team was propelled by key contributions from Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Shai Hope, and Romario Shepherd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After winning the toss, GAW elected to bowl first, quickly claiming the wicket of Quinton de Kock, who scored 15 runs, with the Royals at just 16 runs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly after, the Warriors struck again, dismissing Rahkeem Cornwall for 19 runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Royals managed to establish a brief partnership between Alick Athanaze, who made 26 runs, and Kadeem Alleyne, who added 11. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the duo&#8217;s efforts were short-lived, as Alleyne fell in the 10th over, followed by Athanaze&#8217;s dismissal in the 11th. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The situation deteriorated further for the Royals when their captain, Rovman Powell, was dismissed for 12 runs, leaving the team struggling at 87 for 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Miller and Jason Holder attempted to rebuild the innings, pushing the score to 139 runs before Miller was dismissed in the 19th over. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holder was the last wicket to fall in the final over, and the Royals finished their innings at 148 runs, hindered by excellent fielding from the Warriors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In pursuit of 149 runs for victory, GAW&#8217;s opening pair of Gurbaz and Moeen Ali got off to a strong start, combining for 54 runs within the first five overs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gurbaz scored 40 runs before his dismissal in the fifth over. Hope then took charge, scoring 56 runs off just 33 balls, including six fours and two sixes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ali contributed 44 runs as they built a partnership of 93 runs, leading GAW to a comfortable win and securing their place in the CPL final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 5, 2024 The Guyana Amazon Warriors (GAW) advanced to the final of the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League following a dominant all-round performance against the Barbados Royals. The team&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23619","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\/23619","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=23619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23622,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23619\/revisions\/23622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}