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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Guyanese fans crazy over CPL

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Crick­et starved fans in Guyana are go­ing crazy now that the Li­ma­col Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL)T20 tour­na­ment has reached their land. With the Ama­zon War­riors due to play the Red Steel last night at the Prov­i­dence Sta­di­um, the at­mos­phere out­side the ground was elec­tric.

Fans start­ed ar­riv­ing at the ground from as ear­ly as 4 pm and some were mak­ing the long trek from re­mote parts of Guyana. Tick­et sales for the match was ro­bust and a full house was ex­pect­ed. With the Ama­zon War­riors based in Guyana the in­ter­est amongst the fans is tremen­dous. The scenes were un­like what tran­spired in Grena­da for the open­ing round last week­end. No fran­chise is at­tached to Grena­da and this would have re­sult­ed in small crowds there.

Since ar­riv­ing in Guyana on Sun­day, the Ama­zon War­riors play­ers, led by T&T's De­nesh Ramdin, have been ag­gres­sive­ly mar­ket­ing the tour­na­ment. The play­ers made sev­er­al ap­pear­ances at spon­sors out­lets and this helped to cre­ate the hype.

The crick­et vibes here were sim­i­lar to the World Cup foot­ball that just end­ed. Even the ra­dio talk show hosts were go­ing at it, with one re­mark­ing that the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors would: "Teach those Tri­nis a les­son in crick­et."

He prob­a­bly did not know that four men on the Ama­zon War­riors team are from T&T, in­clud­ing the cap­tain. How­ev­er it was just all part of the fun and in­ter­est shown in the tour­na­ment.

A fan from Char­i­ty in Es­se­qui­bo, reached the ground at 1pm and was not al­lowed in un­til 4pm. He and his wife were how­ev­er still up­beat as they en­tered. He told the T&T Guardian: "This is the best thing right now for crick­et here. With all the prob­lems we have in crick­et ad­min­is­tra­tion in Guyana, we need­ed to see crick­et and I am glad that the West In­dies Crick­et Board (WICB) is not in­ter­fer­ing with this crick­et. We are go­ing to see a great game, we love crick­et here in Guyana and we will spend our mon­ey to come and see the match­es. Imag­ine I have to rent a room in George­town to stay the night, as I can­not get home un­til to­mor­row af­ter this match is done." (VM)

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