“We have to turn up better with the bat.” – Shepherd

As the Guyana Amazon Warriors (GAW) prepare for what has become a must-win match against the St Lucia Kings on Saturday morning at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence, East Bank Demerara (EBD), Vice-Captain Romario Shepherd has figured that most of the team’s woes can be solved with better batting.
Shepherd was at the time speaking during a post-match interview following their loss to the Antigua and Barbuda Falcons on Wednesday night, where he stressed the need for his team to “turn up better” with the bat tomorrow.
On solving what can be considered the team’s only shortcoming this season, “It’s a tough spot because it’s been happening for over a year now, so it’s just for us to actually find that momentum going into the playoff and the other games. If one guy can turn up, we all know how funny cricket is – that things can go your way in the flick of a switch. So, hopefully that can happen for us and we can get a good start because we know the type of batting we have coming down, just that we’ve been exposing guys a bit too early.” Shepherd said.
“All in all, it’s cricket, so we have to turn up better with the bat in the next game,” he added.

Shepherd had earlier spoken highly of the Amazon Warriors’ bowling unit, who claimed 6 wickets on the night to slow down the Falcons’ chase of 100.
The all-rounder expressed, “You know, we had the belief, and you know the way the guys go out and actually try and defend it; it showed that we actually believed that we could’ve defended it. So that’s good to see, like I said in the post-match presentation.”
The Republic Bank CPL continues at the National Stadium today, where GAW and Kings will go head-to-head from 11:00h.
Thereafter, the Amazon Warriors Women will battle the Trinbago Knight Riders Women from 16:00h in what is expected to be a thrilling double header today.