00:00In Republic Bank CPL 20...
00:02Guyana Amazon Warriors are back on top of the Republic Bank CPL table
00:05with no other team having a chance to overtake them.
00:08This follows their four-wicket win against St. Lucia Kings on Wednesday night at Providence Stadium.
00:13It was obvious that 47-year-old skipper Imran Tahir would be a pleased man.
00:18My son, he's the main guy who's been pushing me.
00:22He's keep telling me, Daddy, one more year, one more year, and you need to play with me.
00:25So, you know, it's obviously kind of motivation. I want to give it to him.
00:30And all the youngsters who's watching me around the world, that, you know, I put a lot of hard work
00:35into it.
00:35And it's nice to see when it's come, obviously, come out the way, the way you want it.
00:41And, you know, especially for the team.
00:42You know, it's not, obviously, personal achievement I look for.
00:46But, yeah, look, you know, we work hard to, obviously, get the personal achievement.
00:49And I'm very lucky that I deliver today.
00:51Tahir also praised Mehdi Hassan Miraz, who took three wickets on CPL debut.
00:56Miraz replaced Mohamed Nabi, who's preparing for national duty with Afghanistan.
01:01Yeah, look, you know, we had Nabi.
01:02He, obviously, his standards were really, really high.
01:06You know, he's been our best bowler.
01:08But, look, he came, and I think we fell, to be honest, with nothing.
01:11And then he bowled really, really well.
01:13I think just exactly how we were thinking.
01:15So, yeah, look, really nice to have him.
01:17He's a world-class bowler, you know, been performing all over the world internationally.
01:22So, yeah, I think I'm very excited, obviously, to bowl with him and all the other guys around him.
01:26St. Lucia Kings skipper Roston Chase was a disappointed man following the loss.
01:30As a result, their chances of making the playoffs depend on other results.
01:34Not the total that we were looking for.
01:36Initially, we wanted to post around a 150, 160,
01:40because we know that the wicket was going to be difficult looking at it.
01:43And we know in Guyana it's going to be spin-based,
01:46but we lost too much wickets after the good start that we had.
01:49We didn't capitalize on that, and we just lost wickets in clusters,
01:52and we never really got back into the game once we lost those wickets.
01:56Should the Kings fail to advance further,
01:58Chase will not have a chance of adding to the 15 wickets he already picked up at this year's tournament.
02:03And how did he sum up his team's display in the 10 matches?
02:06I think the bowling, especially in the middle-overs,
02:09I thought that that was the hallmark of our team.
02:11And that's one thing that we can take.
02:13I just think that we didn't really be consistent enough with the batting,
02:17and that really let us down in the tournament and also in the field.
02:21And I thought that if we raft our chances a bit more,
02:24we could have probably gained a bit more points as well.
02:27The St. Lucia Kings hope that Guyana Amazon Warriors beat Trinbago Knight Riders
02:31when they meet on Friday.
02:33I'm going to be with you on the Teeves Export.
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