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Guyana Amazon Warriors (WCPL)
The Guyana Amazon Warriors are a women's cricket team that compete in the Women's Caribbean Premier League and 2022 season of The 6ixty, The 6ixty, representing Guyana. The formation of the team was announced in March 2022, aligned with the Guyana Amazon Warriors, equivalent men's team, playing their first match in August 2022. The team is captained by Stafanie Taylor. History On 14 March 2022, Cricket West Indies announced their intention to hold the first Women's Caribbean Premier League, to run alongside the Caribbean Premier League, men's tournament, which began in 2013. Guyana Amazon Warriors were one of three teams announced to be taking part in the tournament, aligned with one of the Guyana Amazon Warriors, men's teams. The team's squad was announced on 16 June 2022, with Stafanie Taylor announced as captain of the team. The 2022 Women's Caribbean Premier League, inaugural Women's Caribbean Premier League is scheduled to begin on 31 August 2022. On 22 June 2022, it was a ...
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Stafanie Taylor
Stafanie Roxann Taylor (born 11 June 1991) is a Jamaican cricketer who is a former captain of the West Indies women's cricket team. She has represented them over 250 times since her debut in 2008. A right-handed batter and off break bowler, Taylor was selected as the 2011 ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year – the first West Indian to receive the accolade. She was also the first woman to score 1,000 runs in ODIs for the West Indies. She plays domestic cricket for Jamaica and Guyana Amazon Warriors and has previously played for Auckland, Sydney Thunder, Adelaide Strikers, Western Storm, Southern Vipers, Southern Brave and Trailblazers. Born in Jamaica, Taylor broke into the West Indies team in 2008, aged 17, and immediately inserted herself as a key member of the team. She scored her highest Twenty20 total on debut, striking 90 runs from 49 balls to help her side to a large victory. In the 2016 World Twenty20, she was the highest run-scorer and named player of the series. She p ...
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Off Spin
Off spin is a type of finger spin bowling in cricket. A bowler who uses this technique is called an off spinner. Off spinners are right arm, right-handed spin bowling, spin bowlers who use their fingers to spin the ball. Their normal Delivery (cricket), delivery is an off break, which spins from left to right (from the bowler's perspective) when the ball bounces on the cricket pitch, pitch. For a right-handed batsman, this is from his off side to the leg side (that is, towards the right-handed batsman, or away from a left-handed batsman). The ball breaks ''away'' from the Fielding (cricket)#Off- and leg-side fields, off side, hence the name 'off break'. Off spinners bowl mostly off breaks, varying them by adjusting the line and length of the deliveries. Off spinners also bowl other types of delivery, which spin differently. Aside from these variations in spin, varying the speed, line and length, length and flight of the ball are also important for the off spinner. The bowler with ...
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Guyana Women's National Cricket Team
The Guyana women's cricket team is the women's representative cricket team of the country of Guyana. They compete in the Women's Super50 Cup and the Twenty20 Blaze. History Guyana joined the West Indies domestic structure in 1977, competing in the Federation Championships, in which they finished 4th out of 5 teams. They competed again in the next edition of the tournament, 1980, winning two matches, against Grenada and Barbados. Guyana then did not compete in any tournaments until 2001, losing every match in their return season. They have competed in most tournaments since, with a brief hiatus in 2006 and 2007, and joined the Twenty20 Blaze for its inaugural season in 2012. In 2013, they reached the semi-finals of the T20 competition before losing to eventual winners Jamaica. They achieved their best finish in the 50-over competition in 2014, reaching the final before losing to Jamaica. In the most recent season, 2023, Guyana finished as runners-up in the Twenty20 Blaze ...
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Left-arm Orthodox Spin
Left-arm orthodox spin, Left-arm off spin also known as slow left-arm orthodox spin bowling, is a type of Finger spin, left-arm finger spin bowling (cricket), bowling in the sport of cricket. Left-arm orthodox spin is bowled by a left-arm bowler finger spin, using the fingers to spin the ball from right to left of the cricket pitch (from the bowler's perspective). Left-arm orthodox spin bowlers generally attempt to drift the ball in the air into a right-handed batsman, and then turn it away from the batsman (towards off-stump) upon landing on the pitch. The drift and turn in the air are attacking techniques. The stock delivery of a left-arm orthodox spin bowler is the left-arm orthodox spinner. The major variations of a left-arm orthodox spin bowler are the topspinner (which turns less and bounces higher in the cricket pitch), the arm ball (which does not turn at all, drifts into a right-handed batsman in the direction of the bowler's arm movement; also called a 'floater') a ...
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Kaysia Schultz
Kaysia Christina Schultz (born 17 April 1997) is a Guyanese cricketer who currently plays for Guyana and Guyana Amazon Warriors as a slow left-arm orthodox bowler. Schultz was born in Bartica, Guyana, and began playing cricket when she was ten. In August 2020, she was named in the West Indies' squad for the Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) series against England, earning her maiden call-up to the national team. She was one of five Guyanese cricketers to be named in the squad for the tour to England. In May 2021, Schultz was awarded with a central contract from Cricket West Indies. In June 2021, Schultz was named in the West Indies A Team for their series against Pakistan. In January 2022, Schultz was named in the West Indies' Women's One Day International (WODI) squad for their series against South Africa. In February 2022, she was named as one of three reserve players in the West Indies team for the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup The 2022 ICC Women's Cricket World ...
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Shakera Selman
Shakera Casandra Selman (born 1 September 1989) is a Barbadian cricketer who plays as a right-arm medium bowler. In October 2018, Cricket West Indies (CWI) awarded her a women's contract for the 2018–19 season. Later the same month, she was named in the West Indies' squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies. In January 2020, she was named in West Indies' squad for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia. In May 2021, Selman was awarded with a central contract from Cricket West Indies. She plays domestic cricket for Barbados and Barbados Royals, and has previously played for Surrey, Trailblazers and Supernovas. In October 2021, she was named in the West Indies team for the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament in Zimbabwe. In February 2022, she was named in the West Indies team for the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand. In July 2022, she was named in the Barbados team for the cricket tournament at the 2022 Co ...
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Karishma Ramharack
Karishma Ramharack (born 20 January 1995) is a Trinidadian cricketer who plays for Trinidad and Tobago women's national cricket team, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana Amazon Warriors (WCPL), Guyana Amazon Warriors and the West Indies women's cricket team, West Indies as a right-arm off spin, off break Bowling (cricket), bowler. In January 2019, she was named in the West Indies squad for their series West Indies women's cricket team against Pakistan in 2018–19, against Pakistan. She made her Women's Twenty20 International cricket (WT20I) debut for the West Indies against Pakistan women's cricket team, Pakistan Women on 3 February 2019. She made her Women's One Day International cricket (WODI) debut for the West Indies, also against Pakistan Women, on 11 February 2019. In July 2019, Cricket West Indies awarded her with a central contract for the first time, ahead of the 2019–20 season. In October 2021, she was named as one of three reserve players in the West Indies team for the 2021 ...
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Shreyanka Patil
Shreyanka Rajesh Patil (born 31 July 2002) is an Indian cricketer who currently plays for Karnataka and Royal Challengers Bangalore. She plays as a right-arm off break bowler. She has also played for Guyana Amazon Warriors in the Women's Caribbean Premier League. She made her international debut for India in 2023. Early life Patil was born on 31 July 2002 in Bangalore. Domestic career Patil made her debut for Karnataka in October 2019, against Pondicherry, in which she took 1/21 from two overs. In November 2022, she took 4/7 from four overs for South Zone against North East Zone in the 2022–23 Women's Senior Inter Zonal T20. She scored her maiden List A half-century in January 2023, with 73 against Arunachal Pradesh. In February 2023, she was signed by Royal Challengers Bangalore for the inaugural Women's Premier League. She took six wickets at an average of 32.00 in her seven matches at the tournament. In August 2023, she was signed by Guyana Amazon Warriors for the 2 ...
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Shabnim Ismail
Shabnim Ismail (born 5 October 1988) is a South African cricketer who made her debut for the national women's team in January 2007. A right-arm fast bowler, Ismail is South Africa's all-time leading wicket-taker in both the One Day International and Twenty20 International formats. She has earned a reputation as one of the fastest female bowlers in the world, with her top recorded speed reaching . She has played in every editions of the ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament since its inception in 2009. She has featured in ICC World Twenty20 on seven occasions in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020. During her early years, she was a second change bowler and later transformed herself to a frontline bowler leading the bowling attack from the front and usually opened the bowling. She has been a vital cog of South African bowling attack for over a decade. She usually open the bowling alongside Marizanne Kapp which is arguably considered as one of the best fast bowling combin ...
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Shabika Gajnabi
Shabika Gajnabi (born 14 July 2000) is a Guyanese cricketer who plays for Guyana, Guyana Amazon Warriors and the West Indies. She plays as a right-arm medium bowler. In August 2019, she was named in the West Indies' squad for their series against Australia. She made her Women's One Day International (WODI) debut for the West Indies against Australia on 5 September 2019. She made her Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) debut for the West Indies, also against Australia, on 14 September 2019. In June 2021, Gajnabi was named as the vice-captain of the West Indies A Team for their series against Pakistan. In October 2021, she was named as one of three reserve players in the West Indies team for the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier The 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier was an international women's cricket tournament that was held in Zimbabwe in November and December 2021. The tournament was the final part of the qualification process for the 2022 Women's Cricket ...
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Ashmini Munisar
Ashmini Munisar (born 7 December 2003) is a Guyanese cricketer, who is a right-handed batter and a right-arm off break bowler. She represents the Guyana women's cricket team in regional cricket. She captained the West Indies in the 2023 Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup. International career In June 2023, she earned her maiden call-up to the West Indies women's cricket team for their series against Ireland. She made her Women's One Day International (WODI) debut for the West Indies, on 28 June 2023, against Ireland. In July 2023, she was named in Women's Twenty20 International Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) is the shortest form of women's international cricket. A women's Twenty20 International is a 20 overs-per-side cricket match between two of the International Cricket Council (ICC) members. The first Twent ... (WT20I) squad for the same series. She made her WT20 debut for the West Indies, on 4 July 2023, against Ireland. References External links * 2003 ...
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Natasha McLean
Natasha Yannick McLean (born 22 December 1994) is a Jamaican cricketer who plays as a wicket-keeper and right-handed batter. In October 2018, she was named in the West Indies squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies. In July 2019, Cricket West Indies awarded her with a central contract for the first time, ahead of the 2019–20 season. She plays domestic cricket for Jamaica and Trinbago Knight Riders The Trinbago Knight Riders (formerly the Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel) are a franchise cricket team of the Caribbean Premier League based in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The Red Steel was one of the original six teams created for the t .... References External links * * 1994 births Living people Sportspeople from Spanish Town Jamaican women cricketers Trinbago Knight Riders (WCPL) cricketers Guyana Amazon Warriors (WCPL) cricketers West Indian women cricketers West Indies women One Day International cricketers West I ...
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