Warriors limp past Zouks at home

The Amazon Warriors completed a three-wicket win over St Lucia Zouks last evening in a nail biting affair. Chasing 112 with 20 overs to face, Warriors started the chase comfortably. After the first six overs, Lendl Simmons scored 25 off 20 (5×4), Assad Fudadin departed for a run-a-ball five then the skipper Denesh Ramdin joined Simmons at the crease.

The duo brought up the 50 off just 6.2 overs much to the pleasure of the Guyanese crowd which was not short of excited fans. Safe singles seemed to be the route the Warriors would take to chase the target down and it worked well for them, before Simmons 31 (27b 5×4 0x6) lofted one to the long on, down the throat of substitute Keddy Lesporis off the bowling of Keron Cottoy.

The departure of Brad Hodge for a duck then silenced the Warriors crowd. A pretty little partnership began to brew between Umar Akmal and Ramdin before the Pakistani was surprisingly given LBW off the bowling of Cottoy.
The departure of hometown hero Christopher Barnwell for 7 gave Cottoy his fourth wicket of the night and set the warriors on a downward spiral.