While the Tallawahs were celebrating late into the night the Guyana Amazon Warriors were bitterly disappointed that after topping the league and beating the Jamaica Tallawahs in the first playoff, they saved their worst ever batting performance for the final.
Amazon Warriors captain Rayad Emrit lamented the lack of batting rigidity throughout their innings. They were dismissed for just 93 with only Sohail Tanvir making a significant contribution with the bat.
“Tonight just wasn’t supposed to be,” Emrit said. “We just didn’t get the runs that we wanted. All in all I am really proud of the guys. Obviously we didn’t get enough runs on the board and we kept losing wickets at crucial times, we didn’t have any partnerships at all.”
Chris Lynn said that despite this loss the team can take a lot of positives about how well they have played throughout this edition of the Hero CPL.
“It is disappointing, but I said in the team meeting beforehand regardless of how we played tonight we had a really good tournament. We were the underdogs in the actual tournament and we had some very good performances. We can hold our heads high, and we have got the motivation to go one better next year.”
This was the third time that the Amazon Warriors have lost in the final and it will be one of the more painful defeats, but as Lynn says they are ready to try again next year.
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