The Guyana Amazon Warriors (GAW) Women got their SKYEXCH 6ixty campaign off to the perfect start with a victory over the Trinbago Knight Riders Women in Game 2 of the T10 tournament on Wednesday afternoon.
Shamilia Connell was instrumental with the ball in the GAW Women’s first game
The GAW Women became the first team to take a perfect 6 wickets in the SKYEXCH 6ixty tournament, on the back of a stellar bowling effort.
In pursuit of 82 runs for victory, Trinbago Women were restricted to 66 runs in 10 overs. In actuality, they had a great start to the chase, getting to 40/1 in 5 overs. However, they then began to unravel before the Warriors’ onslaught.
Shamilia Conell picked up 2 for 17 from her 2, while Ayabonga Khaka, Karishma Ramharack and local girl Cherry-Ann Fraser each picked up one scalp.
Ramharack was economical, allowing only seven runs off her single over; as was Khaka, who conceded only 11 in 2.3 overs. Fraser, on the other hand, was a bit expensive (1-19 from 2) but bounced back marvellously in the following game.
Kycia Knight top-scored for the Knight Riders, getting to 22 off 23 balls, but was sent back to the dugout by Fraser, while her sister Kyshona notched an even 12 from 12.
As Connell claimed the wickets of Knight and Natasha McLean, Taylor and Fraser combined to effect the run out of Hayley Jensen, signalling trouble for the Knight Riders.
With only two wickets left in hand, Sune Luus and Geetika Kodali were torn between being careful and launching fireworks to get to their target. After Kodali had her stumps disturbed by Khaka, Luus launched what would have surely been a maximum, but a sprint around the boundary and Shabika Gajnabi’s safe pair of hands brought on the demise of the Knight Riders.
Earlier in the game, a 37-run partnership between Warriors Captain Stafanie Taylor and Rashada Williams stabilised the innings through the middle overs and got the Warriors to a total of 81-2.
Taylor top-scored with an unbeaten 29 from 18 balls, but not before Sri Lankan Chamari Athapaththu got the Warriors off to a flying start with 21 from 15, before falling prey to Sheneta Grimmond’s bowling.
Though Williams stuck around for most of the first innings, it took the experience of stand-in Trinidadian Captain Anisa Mohammed to remove the Warriors opener.
Grimmond was the pick of the Trinbago bowlers, picking up 1-9 from 2 overs.
Today, attention will be directed to the Men’s tournament, where the male Amazon Warriors will seek out a similar fate as their female counterparts in their contest against the St Lucia Kings from 10am local time.
