debut: 2/15/17
41,080 runs
Six-hitter Sampson, under-fire TKR in focus in CPL playoffs
Guyana Amazon Warriors and St Lucia Kings will have two cracks at the final after Antigua and Barbuda Falcons face Trinbago Knight Riders in the Eliminator
That someone else is a 25-year-old rookie, Quentin Sampson, who has smashed nine sixes across his previous two games for Guyana Amazon Warriors as a pinch-hitting opener. Sampson's back-to-back half-centuries were central to Amazon Warriors securing a top-two finish in the league phase of the tournament.Sampson hails from Caria Caria village, which is located on the shore of Essequibo River and isn't too far away from Saxacalli, Keemo Paul's village. He initially played softball cricket in his village before rising through the ranks and becoming a professional player for Guyana. Shepherd is impressed with Sampson's ability to stay low and stable while meeting the ball.
While both Amazon Warriors and table-toppers St Lucia Kings will have two cracks for the final, there is no margin for error in the Eliminator for Trinbago Knight Riders and Antigua & Barbuda Falcons. TKR have lost three of the four games they have played against Falcons and enter the Eliminator on the back of three successive defeats, but their captain Nicholas Pooran has backed them to come good at the crunch.TKR will have to be wary of Karima Gore, Falcons' top run-getter this season, and Jayden Seales, their highest wicket-taker. Seales has tuned up for the Eliminator against his former franchise with his best CPL figures of 4 for 15, achieved against Amazon Warriors.
"Obviously you'll [have to] take out Antigua first and foremost; we've been in this position before where we have to take the hard road," he said. "That's our No.1 focus, so whatever happened last year with the lights cutting off... Still no answers on that, but our focus is that game on Tuesday night and we take it forward that certain things we can control and certain things we can't. What we can control is our emotions and that's what we need going into these playoff games."
Guyana Amazon Warriors and St Lucia Kings will have two cracks at the final after Antigua and Barbuda Falcons face Trinbago Knight Riders in the Eliminator
That someone else is a 25-year-old rookie, Quentin Sampson, who has smashed nine sixes across his previous two games for Guyana Amazon Warriors as a pinch-hitting opener. Sampson's back-to-back half-centuries were central to Amazon Warriors securing a top-two finish in the league phase of the tournament.Sampson hails from Caria Caria village, which is located on the shore of Essequibo River and isn't too far away from Saxacalli, Keemo Paul's village. He initially played softball cricket in his village before rising through the ranks and becoming a professional player for Guyana. Shepherd is impressed with Sampson's ability to stay low and stable while meeting the ball.
While both Amazon Warriors and table-toppers St Lucia Kings will have two cracks for the final, there is no margin for error in the Eliminator for Trinbago Knight Riders and Antigua & Barbuda Falcons. TKR have lost three of the four games they have played against Falcons and enter the Eliminator on the back of three successive defeats, but their captain Nicholas Pooran has backed them to come good at the crunch.TKR will have to be wary of Karima Gore, Falcons' top run-getter this season, and Jayden Seales, their highest wicket-taker. Seales has tuned up for the Eliminator against his former franchise with his best CPL figures of 4 for 15, achieved against Amazon Warriors.
"Obviously you'll [have to] take out Antigua first and foremost; we've been in this position before where we have to take the hard road," he said. "That's our No.1 focus, so whatever happened last year with the lights cutting off... Still no answers on that, but our focus is that game on Tuesday night and we take it forward that certain things we can control and certain things we can't. What we can control is our emotions and that's what we need going into these playoff games."
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