00:01Cricket analyst Dr. Joseph Retsperreira was far from pleased following the dismal performance by the Guyana Amazon Warriors against Barbados
00:09Tridents in Sunday's Republic Bank CPL match at Kensington Oval.
00:13Both teams had already qualified for the playoffs before the start of the match. The game saw the Amazon Warriors
00:19being dismissed for 99 and the Tridents replying with 100 for 4.
00:23Well, I think the Guyana management committee got it all wrong in their selection. This was a game that didn't
00:33really mean much. It had no bearing on the playoffs.
00:39Guyana's focus in the playoffs is against Falcons, who must be quite happy with what they saw. The Guyana selectors
00:49should have gone to their bench.
00:51According to the St. Lucia-based sports journalist, Quentin Sampson should have been utilized as a pinch hitter and given
00:58the opening position.
01:00Added to that, he felt a couple youngsters should have made the cut.
01:04There's two young men, one called Apple and Van Lang, who both played well in the Western East on the
01:1319th World Cup in Africa, yet not given an opportunity.
01:24He was, however, pleased that Pacer Shamao Joseph was rested for the match with the playoffs around the corner.
01:30But he feels the defeat could give the Antigua and Barbada Falcons a psychological boost when they meet the Amazon
01:36Warriors in the playoffs.
01:38Plus, he thinks it could also work in favor of the Tridents if the two are to face each other.
01:46The job now for the management is to get them back on their feet, to start believing again, to think
01:56in a way how they were thinking when they chopped the group of all teams in the CPL table.
02:07It was an awful, awful, damaging mistake.
02:12The Amazon Warriors play the Falcons in their playoff on Thursday at Kensington Noble, with a winner going directly to
02:19the finals.
02:20Vinod Nawani, Chiefs Sport.
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