Tallawahs’ bowling coach Curtly Ambrose opens up about Odean Smith and Romario Shepherd’s poor death bowling

Jamaica Tallawahs bowling coach Curtly Ambrose believes Guyana Amazon Warriors pacers Odean Smith and Romario Shepherd have a lot of work to do to improve their death bowling.

Amazon Warriors won the toss and elected to field first in Qualifier 2 and it was a brilliant decision after they reduced Talawas to 37/2 in the powerplay. They maintained that advantage till the end of 15 overs but conceded 103 runs in the last 5 overs.

Smith and Shepard bowled the last three overs of the Tallawahs innings and they gave 66 runs. Smith bowled 18 and 20 overs he conceded 43 runs.

Ambrose, a West Indies legend and one of the greatest bowlers ever, said the two players must improve to help the Wet Indies side.

“We know that they haven’t been bowling well towards the back end of the innings. It’s not once or twice, it’s been happening for a little while. We knew that once we have wickets in hand for those last five, six, seven overs, we can get a big total.

“Quite frankly, for Odean Smith and Romario Shepherd – West Indian players – they need to do some work so they can be better in the back end. But for us, we’re happy to be in the final.” Said Former West Indies Fast Bowler at Press Conference after the Qualifier 2

West Indies legend also commented on the way the Tallawahs bowlers bowled to Guyana’s tailenders batsmen in the last few overs.

“The bowling was really good. I thought maybe the last couple of overs we eased up a bit and gave them a few runs because the game was already won, which I’m not happy about. I’ve always told my bowlers: whenever yuh have ah team to kill off, yuh kill them off. Don’t give them no chance to come back.” he added

Ambrose praised the batsmen for setting up the game perfectly to victory.

“It’s not just the bowlers. I thought it was a great team effort. Brilliant knock by Shamarh Brooks, and well supported by Imad Wasim.” he concluded