Skipper of the Guyana Amazon Warriors, Chris Green believes there is a lot of room for improvement as they look to bounce back today against St. Kitts and Nevis Patriots at 17.00 hours. Warriors suffered a four-wicket loss in the Caribbean Premier League opener against Trinbago Knight Riders and Green reflected on the outcome during his post-match interview.
The 26-year-old off-spinner, who finished as the most expensive bowler for the Warriors said there was room for improvement in the batting and bowling departments.
“There is plenty of room for improvement with both bat and ball and I am really excited for tomorrow [today].”
Green admitted that it would be hard to try match the heroics of last season where they lost only the final but figured throughout the course of the tournament, his team would get better and begin to peak towards the business end of the competition.
“It’s always going to be tough to match up to 11 in a row like last year, disappointing not to get the right result today but plenty of positives and plenty of room to grow as well,” the captain said.
“Obviously the first game of the tournament, first game in a long time, we got a long way to go in the tournament and we got to start peaking towards that backend so we are looking forward to our match tomorrow [today].”
Today, Warriors will be tackling a fresh-look Patriots side but while the team has rejuvenated its side, a number of players represented Warriors in the past.
Among them are skipper, Rayad Emrit, Denesh Ramdin, Sohail Tanvir and Chris Lynn. The quartet have shown their worth in the past and will no doubt look to come good against the five-time finalists.
Reflecting on the contest, Green was satisfied with the total posted and felt that the half century third-wicket partnership between Shimron Hetmyer (63 not out) and Ross Taylor (33) was what set them on course for a decent total.
“I think given the start with the two wickets early on, I thought Ross Taylor and Shimron Hetmyer batted fantastically well to set up that innings for us and we thought 140 would be a good score, we were pushing close to 150 and we were very happy with that total,” he stated.
However, the Australian spinner felt that when the bowlers were not able to hold their lengths it ultimately affect the defence.
“We just spoke about holding that length, as you saw Romario Shepherd and Naveen Ul-Haq early in that power play just holding that length and that was our successful length at times and when we went away from that we got hurt and when we were able to hold that we did well,” Green opined.
