Guyana Amazon Warriors ready to defend home territory in GSL 2025
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The Guyana Amazon Warriors (GAW) have officially unveiled their 15-man squad as they prepare to defend their fortress at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence in the highly anticipated ExxonMobil Global Super League (GSL) 2025. With a squad rich in international experience and a blend of explosive youth and proven veterans, the Warriors are poised for a thrilling campaign.
Following a strong third-place finish in the inaugural 2024 season, the Warriors have made a few key adjustments while maintaining a solid core led by marquee names such as Imran Tahir, Moeen Ali, Romario Shepherd, and Gudakesh Motie.
New additions to the squad include rising wicketkeeper-batters Jewel Andrew and Amir Jangoo, along with seasoned top-order powerhouses Johnson Charles and Evin Lewis. Left-arm spin maestro Akeal Hossein, brings additional firepower to the bowling unit.
Also joining the squad are Ramanullah Gurbaz, returning to the Warriors setup after successful Caribbean Premier League (CPL) stints, Irish pacer Mark Adair, and Pakistani all-rounder Saud Shakeel, offering versatility and depth.
The Warriors will be without key players Shai Hope, Kevlon Anderson, and Roston Chase, who are on West Indies Test duty. Keemo Paul is sidelined due to injury.
The 2025 GSL season kicks off in grand style with debutants Central Stags (New Zealand) and Hobart Hurricanes XI (Australia) battling it out in a day game followed by the Guyana Amazon Warriors facing off against defending champions Rangpur Riders of Bangladesh in the night fixture on the same day at Providence. Also competing are Dubai Capitals, the reigning champions of the International League T20.
GUYANA AMAZON WARRIORS SQUAD:
Imran Tahir, Evin Lewis, Johnson Charles, Moeen Ali, Shimron Hetmyer, Saud Shakeel, Romario Shepherd, Dwain Pretorius, Gudakesh Motie, Akeal Hossein, Ramanullah Gurbaz, Mark Adair, Jewel Andrew, Shamar Springer, Amir Jangoo.
Central Stags confirm squad for 2025 Global Super League
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Here’s a brainteaser for you. What do Central Stags captain Tom Bruce and West Indies rising star Matthew Forde have in common?
Two things, actually. They’ll both be playing for the Central Stags at the upcoming ExxonMobil Guyana Global Super League, and they both hold matching one-day fastest fifty records.
Bruce smashed the New Zealand List A record off 16 balls when the Stags won the 2016 Ford Trophy Final at Pukekura Park, and 23-year-old Forde recently became the joint holder of the world’s ODI record with AB de Villiers, having plundered his 16-ball fifty for the Windies against Ireland last month.
Different format to the T20 showcase that awaits in Guyana, for sure, but the Stags will take it.
Bruce captains the Stags squad named for the GSL, announced today. Along with Forde, a strong line-up contains a couple of other big names added since the team’s standout 2024/25 Dream11 Super Smash campaign.
Doug Bracewell returns with an opportunity to play his first match for the Stags since March 2024: the veteran allrounder has been an overseas player for the Joburg Super Kings T20 franchise in the interim.
The Stags also welcome Dean Foxcroft to the GSL squad with the twinkle-toed, off-spinning allrounder poised to play his first match for the Stags since he transferred to the Otago Volts in 2019.
Foxcroft said he was really looking forward to jlinking back up with old friends in the green of the Stags jersey again.
“Just like Otago’s got a special place in my heart, CD’s also got a special place in my heart,” said the 27-year-old.
He debuted for the Stags in all formats back in 2018/19 when he was a young, uncontracted rookie on the up, going on to be named the Stags’ Ford Trophy player of the season, before heading south.
Recently he impressed for New Zealand A in Bangladesh (conditions that may not be a world away from those the team can expect in Guyana) and both Foxcroft and Bracewell are capped BLACKCAPS as well.
With Will Young, Ajaz Patel, Josh Clarkson, Blair Tickner, Dane Cleaver, Bruce, and overseas player Forde all in the squad, it means nine of the 14-strong squad heading to Guyana pack International cricket experience.
Patel’s exciting return marks his successful rehabilitation from a serious knee injury and surgery last summer that saw him miss all the fun as the Stags roared through their title-winning T20 campaign.
The premier spinner now headlines a potent quartet of slow options, with fellow left-armer and New Zealand A standout Jayden Lennox, and the right-arm off-spinning allrounders Foxcroft and Angus Schaw.
Foxcroft brings proven class and heft with the bat, but also sports a T20 career best with the ball of 5/11 in the Super Smash, for the Volts.
This isn’t his first rodeo in the green jersey. As a rookie in 2019, he top-scored in the Super Smash Grand Final to ensure the Stags won the trophy that year, and there is still a hill named after him on the Seddon Park embankment.
The prospect of Foxcoft recombining with the quality Young, and the explosive power of Bruce and Forde, will be exciting for the team as they head off to unchartered territory to compete against four other T20 squads from around the world for a lucrative prize pool.
Forde joins Clarkson as the only players in the squad to have experienced Guyana conditions first-hand, the pair having played there in the Caribbean Premier League.
Clarkson played for the St Kitts and Nevis Patriots late last year, while Barbados-born-and-raised “Mustang” Forde has played for the St Lucia Kings since 2022, and brings valuable local intel.
The big right-armer has played 13 ODIs and six T20 Internationals for the West Indies, opening the attack. He impressed against the likes of England and Australia and, while his primary skillset is respectable right-arm pace, he hits a long ball, down the order – amply demonstrated by his boundary-strewn world record-equalling half century.
Forde will be an exciting watch alongside the established firepower and experience in the Central pace bowling ranks.
Tickner has stood up as the Stags’ Player of the Year for the past two seasons, and has been putting in solid performances for Derbyshire in UK County cricket.
Two starts in Guyana would meanwhile see Bracewell register the 100th T20 of his extensive overall career.
He is now the team’s third highest all-time T20 wicket-taker with 75 victims, behind Tickner (111) and Seth Rance who retired with 92.
His ability to lean back and smash the ball over the rope remains electrifying and Bracewell has the distinction of becoming the only player to head away with the Stags to both of their overseas T20 tournaments.
He made his T20 debut in September 2010 as a youngster at the Champions League (in Durban, against the Chennai Super Kings) after the Stags had won the previous summer’s HRV Cup.
Along with pedigree seasoned performers, the Stags also have an exciting crop of emerging stars with Will Clark, Toby Findlay and Curtis Heaphy all playing significant roles in winning the latest Dream11 Super Smash national title.
Heaphy’s class batting is supplemented by genuine wicketkeeping ability that also makes him a ready-made reserve gloveman for Cleaver.
Some of the GSL squad will travel from the UK where they have been playing over the off-season, while the New Zealand-based players will assemble for two training camps before flying to Guyana – reuniting there as a group in early July.
Pace bowler Brett Randell is unavailable as he continues to mend from the broken collarbone that ended his 2024/25 season prematurely.
The Stags will open their GSL campaign against the Dubai Capitals early on 11 July NZT (10 July local date), followed by matches with the Guyana Amazon Warriors, Hobart Hurricanes and defending champion the Rangpur Riders.
The action-packed round robin will determine which two teams make it through to the 19 July Final (18 July in Guyana time).
Hurricanes XI Squad Release for ExxonMobil Guyana Super League
Ahead of the Hobart Hurricanes XI entry into the ExxonMobil Guyana Super League, the Hurricanes can confirm 13 of the 14 squad members for the tournament with one signing to be announced in the coming weeks.
The squad, which has a blend of current Hurricanes, Tasmanian Tigers domestic players, and four overseas signings, will be looking to take out the $1 million prize pool and be the first Australian side to take out the GSL.
Hurricanes players from their title winning BBL|14 squad Marcus Bean, Nikhil Chaudhary, Jake Doran, Ben McDermott, Billy Stanlake, and Mac Wright will all be donning the purple in the Caribbean, while Tasmanian players Jackson Bird, Raf MacMillan, and Tim Ward join the Australian contingent of the squad.
The overseas spots of the Hurricanes XI will be filled by West Indies star all-rounder Odean Smith, Sahibzada Farhan and Mohammad Nawaz from Pakistan, and experienced Afghan cricketer Mohammad Nabi.
The squad will be coached by Hobart Hurricanes Head Coach Jeff Vaughan and assisted by Mike Smith, Diederick Kruger is the Strength and Conditioning Coach, and the Team Manager is Amanda Meers.
Hobart Hurricanes XI Head Coach Jeff Vaughan is looking forward to the challenge of playing in this competition.
“The GSL will provide us with further playing opportunities for many of our players in different playing conditions against players from other competitions around the world.
“Our squad a strong blend of talent from our programs here in Tasmania, and I am confident in the overseas talent that we have chosen to include in our squad.
“It will also give players with a chance to step into different roles, and in leadership positions in an unfamiliar environment, this will be a good test,” said Vaughan.
The Hurricanes XI full squad is:
Marcus Bean
Jackson Bird
Nikhil Chaudhary
Jake Doran
Sahibzada Farhan (O/S)
Rafael MacMillan
Ben McDermott
Mohammad Nabi (O/S)
Mohammad Nawaz (O/S)
Odean Smith
Billy Stanlake
Tim Ward
Mac Wright
The GSL begins on Thursday 10 July in Guyana, with the Hobart Hurricanes XI competing against Central Stags (New Zealand), Dubai Capitals (United Arab Emirates), Guyana Amazon Warriors (West Indies), and Rangpur Riders (Bangladesh).
The Hobart Hurricanes XI matches are as follows below (Australian time):
| Time | Teams | Venue |
| Saturday 12 July 12.00 am | Hobart Hurricanes vs Dubai Capitals | Guyana National Stadium, Providence |
| Monday 14 July 12.00 am | Rangpur Riders vs Hobart Hurricanes | Guyana National Stadium, Providence |
| Wednesday 16 July 9.00 am | Hobart Hurricanes vs Central Stags | Guyana National Stadium, Providence |
| Thursday 17 July 9.00 am | Guyana Amazon Warriors vs Hobart Hurricanes | Guyana National Stadium, Providence |
| Saturday 19 July 9.00 am | 1st Place vs 2nd Place | Guyana National Stadium, Providence |
