Guyana Amazon Warriors announce local player retentions

While the Hero Caribbean Premier League presses on, the Guyana Amazon Warriors were the latest franchise to have announced the West Indian players they will be retaining for the 2020 edition.

Warriors have chosen to retain six local players, three regional West Indian players and have signed a Guyanese player as one of their Emerging West Indies players ahead of the CPL draft.
It comes as no surprise that Shimron Hetmyer leads the local players’ list along with Keemo Paul, Sherfane Rutherford, Romario Shepherd, Chandrapaul Hemraj and Anthony Bramble.
The three West Indian players retained are 2019’s Marquee signing Nicholas Pooran (T&T), Brandon King (Jam) and Odean Smith (Jam) while Kevin Sinclair has been named as the Emerging Player.
Meanwhile, international retentions and signings will

be announced at a later date. As the new rule stipulates, this year teams can retain as many players from their 2019 squads as they wish. They could also transfer players to other teams and sign emerging players.
Guyana Amazon Warriors Team Operations Manager, Omar Khan, commented on the retentions and signing: “The Guyana Amazon Warriors Franchise has and will always be committed to the continued development of our local and regional players. From the inception of the CPL we included young Guyanese players in our squad as part of the franchise’s mandate to provide opportunities to young aspiring Guyanese cricketers to assist in their overall development as professional cricketers. Shimron Hetmyer, Keemo Paul and Sherfane Rutherford have all benefitted from these opportunities prior to them becoming full-fledged members of our team.”
He went on to state, “We are extremely delighted that we were able to retain the majority of our local and regional players, including Nicholas Pooran and Brandon King, both of whom have been hailed by the cricket pundits as potential future stars of West Indies cricket and who were members of our team last year. The Guyana Amazon Warriors wish all of the retained players great success in the CPL 2020.”
The CPL is scheduled to take place between 19 August and 26 September but the tournament organisers are currently watching the current situation with COVID-19 closely and are liaising with medical advisors and governments. A decision on whether the tournament can proceed as planned, or at a different time, will be made as soon as possible.