Republic Bank CPL 2025: ‘Big game’ as GAW, Falcons clash tonight

The lights at the Guyana National Stadium will again illuminate the East Bank of Demerara (EBD) as the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) 2025 continues tonight.

On the cards is a rematch of the Guyana Amazon Warriors vs Antigua and Barbuda clash that ended in the Guyanese franchise’s favour just three weeks ago in Antigua, by an 83- run margin.
Now, on the Amazon Warriors’ home turf, the Antigua and Barbuda Falcons are coming off of a win in Barbados last weekend and likely will be seeking revenge against the Amazon Warriors for what was a crushing win at home.
However, the Guyana Amazon Warriors, looking for redemption after a loss to the St. Kitts and Nevis Patriots during their last outing, are also keeping a keen eye on the point table, still having the chance to qualify in a top two spot.
As such, Providence will serve up an enthralling battle tonight as the two teams look to climb higher on the points table.

During their last practice session before the game, on Tuesday afternoon, Amazon warriors’ Head Coach Lance Klusener titled today’s game as a ‘big one’.
“Yeah, tomorrow [today] is a big day for us. You know, as you said, its two points that we desperately need and then we’ll look forward to the weekend and deal with that afterwards but tomorrow is a big game for us. We’re going to need to take our opportunities against a team that can surprise anyone on any given day. So, we’re gonna have to come and be ready to compete and we’ll have to really compete well tomorrow,” Klusener told media operatives.
He went on to share, referencing their last contest with the Patriots, “I think it was a little bit, it was a game that I think we should have got over the line, so a little bit disappointed, especially by the way we batted in the end. I thought to restrict the to 149 was a great effort but I think we let ourselves down with the bat. So, it’s been a bit of a pattern for most of the season so, we’re just trying to commit to be better and be better for our fans as well.”
“I think just as we go deeper into the competition it becomes more about us. As you said, we’ve played them before, we know what they’re about, we know their patterns so, I think the focus is just on us. We’ve let ourselves down a little bit in terms of maybe kicking on and individuals making a bigger score. So, that’s going to be really our focus, just to maybe, as a group, read the game better as a batting unit,” the GAW Head Coach went on to say about the rivalry with the Falcons this season.

On the other hand, the Falcons are on a high after their win against the Barbados Royal and according to Head Coach Paul Nixon, will be looking to replicate such in Guyana.
Nixon related to this publication during Tuesday’s training session, “Absolutely delighted with our win against Barbados in Barbados. Any team can beat any team and its about who makes the least mistakes and yeah, for us thankfully, that worked well. We saw a good chase which was wonderful for our confidence and obviously, we’ve watched the Guyana game here.”
The Falcons’ Head Coach anticipated Guyanese conditions, noting, “Guyana’s pitch, it’s lower, it’s slower, you’ve gotta play spin well, you’ve gotta bowl spin well, seamers have got to be very clever with their variations using the wind and the boundaries. It’s no different but obviously, here emphasizing in practice, bending our front knee a bit more as batters, bowlers who’ve been able to bowl fractionally short on this pitch than other pitches because it’s slightly lower bounce. So, yeah, it’s little fine tweaks that you try and get right in practice to come out into the middle full of confidence.”
“It was very early in the competition, we’ve got a slightly different team now that we did then, you know, we made too many mistakes. Young Tahir bowled really, really well and attacked the new batsmen and got the right balls in the right areas. So, something that every team’s looking at cause world class bowlers can take wickets on turning pitches, so, we’ve just got to make sure that we do our best, much better than we did previously and then when his bad ball comes, we just make sure we put it away,” Nixon later shared about their loss to the Warriors earlier in the season.
Confident of being able to pull off a win tonight, he expressed, “Very confident; we have to be confident, we have to believe. We know we can beat anybody, we’ve got a wonderful bowling lineup for every occasion and our batting lineup, we bat right down to number 8 confidently. So, we’re just gonna make sure that we execute our skills well. You know, it’s going to be a noisy partisan crowd, which is wonderful but that’s even more solid for us to go and make sure we send everybody home a little bit earlier.”
The battle between the Guyana Amazon Warriors and Antigua and Barbuda Falcons will bowl off at 19:00hrs tonight.