Tahir, Ahmad to join Guyana Amazon Warriors

ꟷ Tallawahs pick up slow over rate penalty

The Guyana Amazon Warriors (GAW) have announced that South African leg-spinner Imran Tahir and Afghan leg-spinner Qais Ahmad will join their squad to replace Shadab Khan and ICC Americas player Saurabh Netravalkar.

Qais Ahmad

GAW have announced that Pakistan international leg-spinner Shadab Khan would be available only for the first three games of the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) season, because he has commitments to the Pakistan team.
Netravalkar, who will also be unavailable because of international commitments, was drafted as the Amazon Warriors’ ICC Americas player, but draft rules allow for him to be replaced by a Caribbean or overseas player, who in this is the Afghan Qais Ahmad.

Imran Tahir

When Imran Tahir played for the Amazon Warriors in 2018, he had claimed 16 wickets at 17.75, and the team had made it to the final, but were beaten by the Trinbago Knight Riders.
From his 27 matches in T20 cricket, Qais Ahmad has taken 35 wickets at the very impressive average of 18 in the format. In the Hero CPL 2018 season, he played in the St Lucia team.

Tallawahs penalized
The Jamaica Tallawahs have been charged with a breach of Article 2.5 of the Hero CPL Code of Conduct: Minimum Over Rate Offences.
This development came to light at the end of Match 3, between themselves and the Trinbago Knight Riders on Friday 6th September at the Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain. The charge of being one (1) over down was laid by the Match Officials Team against the captain of the Tallawahs, Chris Gayle.
As provided for at Appendix 2, Section 4.2 of the Code of Conduct, the applicable monetary fine was imposed on the captain, and the Jamaica Tallawahs team was penalized with a 0.05 reduction in their Net Run Rate.