Captain: | Martin Guptill |
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Coach: | Roger Harper |
Colours: | Gold Green Red Black White |
Founded: | 2013 |
Home ground: | Providence Stadium |
Capacity: | 15,000 |
CPL wins: | 0 |
The Guyana Amazon Warriors are a franchise cricket team of the Caribbean Premier League based in Providence, Georgetown, Guyana. The team is the representative cricket team of Guyana in the Caribbean Premier League. It was one of the six teams created in 2013 for the inaugural season of the tournament.
The team will play its home games at Providence Stadium, located in Guyana and like the league's other franchises, draw the majority of its players from West Indian domestic teams. Former Guyanese cricket Roger Harper was confirmed as the franchise's inaugural coach in early February 2015.
The Guyana Amazon Warriors were one of the six teams created for the Caribbean Premier League's inaugural 2013 season. In 2013, they were runners up in the first tournament and were defeated by the Jamaica Tallawahs by 7 wickets at Queen's Park Oval in Port of Spain, Trinidad. The team was captained by Ramnaresh Sarwan which included overseas star like Tillakaratne Dilshan, James Franklin, Lasith Malinga as well as West Indian stars Sunil Narine, Lendl Simmons, Denesh Ramdin etc. Krishmar Santokie was leading wicket-taker in the season.