ExxonMobil Guyana Global Super League: GAW looking for win against Hampshire tonight

The Guyana Amazon Warriors (GAW) will have to do a lot of introspection before they head out onto the pitch at the Guyana National Stadium at Providence for their third match in the inaugural ExxonMobil Guyana Global Super League (GSL) T20 tournament.
This is because they suffered a shocking 4-wicket loss to Australia’s Victoria Cricket on Friday night in a match punctuated by a number of slip-ups, dropped catches and misfielding on their part.
Reflecting on Friday’s loss, Captain Imran Tahir rued their performance in the field while defending 162, citing it as a contributing factor to their loss.
“I think there was too many mistakes in the field. We always knew that the dew is going to be a factor, but I think that’s not an excuse. There’s too many soft things that we did in the field, and I think that’s what cost us the game,” Tahir told media operatives during a post- match interview.

The captain added about the loss, “There’s 4, 5 youngsters, I’m sure they’ll remember this game, beating us, and I’m not the kind of guy who needs to look for excuses, but we weren’t great tonight. Simple as that.”
With the need to stay in the top two of the tournament’s points table being of utmost importance, Tair has emphasized the need for the local franchise to win every game from here on out.

The GAW Captain explained, “For me, every game is important. Whenever I play coming here, playing in front of home crowd, it just hurts really badly; but obviously, only thing we can do is promise to come back strongly. Obviously, it’s a short competition, we need to win every single game from now onwards.”
As such, Tahir mentioned the need for some reflection and introspection as the Amazon Warriors hunt a much- needed victory today.
“If you play like that, there will be slip-ups. So, we don’t want to do that; so, we obviously have to go reflect what we didn’t do right, but there was too many things. If I have to reflect on that, I think next game will come very quickly, So, I just have to give a simple message, you know: we need to look ourself in the mirror and see from there,” Tahir related.
The Guyana Amazon Warriors will come up against the Hampshire Hawks from 19:00hrs today at the National Stadium. Both teams will be coming off a loss, setting up what is expected to be an exciting and fiercely contested encounter.
Also at 10:00hrs today, Rangpur Riders will battle Victoria in match five of the ExxonMobil Guyana Global Super League (GSL) T20.