CPL 2022 – Another Warriors – Another Disastrous Campaign

CPL 2022 – Another Warriors – Another Disastrous Campaign

Will Guyanese populate the stadium at Providence to watch Royals vs Tallawahs in CPL finals on Friday?  Of course, Warriors is preferred for the finals.

The four highest individual innings in CPL 2022 were scored against the Warriors. Brooks, du Plessis, and King recorded centuries against the Warriors, Cornwall weighed in with a belligerent 91 against the Warriors. Kings, Royals, and Tallawahs recorded totals in excess of 193 against the Warriors.

What then is this? Warriors’ effort in CPL 2022 was an exhibition of failures and inconsistent performances in every aspect of the game. Captaincy, coaching, batting, bowling, fielding, field placing, catching, planning, and execution are the likely culprits.

Shai Hope was the best performer of the abysmal group. Hetmyer, Hemraj, Shepherd and Smith were most disappointing.  The most disappointing feature of Hetmyer’s mediocre performances is his failure to made decisions which seemed likely to restrict the opposition scoring rate and totals.

The biggest blunders of Hetmyer’s captaincy are:

1. His regular changing of bowlers after they delivered an economical over.
2.  His removal of Tahir in two consecutive matches after he bowled one over for four runs.
3.  Hetmyer’s management of Hassan, Tahir, Sinclair, Shepherd and Smith was atrocious  
4.  His reluctance to remove Shepherd and Smith from the final five overs of the innings
5. His failure to bat at number three. At that position he could rebuild the innings or take the game away with absolute aggression
6.  His mediocre batting display was most repugnant. 

Obviously Hetmyer is a decade defining talent. None in their right mind can deny the talent and the potential. It is past due for Hetmyer’s production to match and reflect his enormous potential and talent. This truth warrior becomes very upset whenever Hetmyer fails.   Hetmyer failed to rise to the level of Virat Kohl is most perplexing. Hetmyer’s CPL 2022 season is as painful as his failures to deliver RCB, DC and RR during the last three IPL campaigns. During the last three years the nostalgia of Hetmyer as a winning cricket has been on the wane. Perhaps, considering the politics of biasness in CWI, this truth warrior‘expectations of Hetmyer, since April 2016, was much too high for an individual. Perhaps, Hetmyer and his 2016 winning teammates are not the saviors of West Indies cricket.

This truth warrior love for Hetmyer to become the definition of batsmanship and dominant winning West Indies cricket. The dream of Hetmyer leading West Indies dominating in the three genres of the international game for 15 years is fading, fast. Curtly Ambrose seems like a prophet. Hetmyer did not rise to the occasion in 2022.Hetmyer did not  force Ambrose to admit he is wrong on, Hetmyer is not ready for West Indies captain. Hetmyer needs to get it done in 2023.