Vin­ode Mam­chan

Guyana Ama­zon War­riors bats­man Lendl Sim­mons who scored an un­beat­en 65 to lead his team to vic­to­ry over the T&T Red Steel at the Prov­i­dence Sta­di­um in Guyana Tues­day night, is cred­it­ing his wife with his suc­cess.

Red Steel need­ing a win to march straight in­to the fi­nals of the tour­na­ment on Sun­day, bat­ted first and scored 117 for eight.

Sim­mons then smashed 65 off 51 balls to lead Guyana home at 118/3 off 17 overs and a place in the sec­ond play-off on Sat­ur­day at the Queen's Park Oval.

Sim­mons has not been en­joy­ing the best of times in this year's tour­na­ment but bat­ted well to cop the man of the match award. Speak­ing on the per­for­mance he said: "I got a call from my wife Kab­ri­na to­day and she re­mind­ed me of what I am ca­pa­ble of do­ing.

I went out there with that in mind and was able to get the runs on the board.

I have not been hav­ing the best of se­ries so far as I am nor­mal­ly in the top three in terms of the ag­gre­gate.

My form was al­ways there, it was just a mat­ter of click­ing. Some­times when you are hit­ting the ball well, you think that you are in form, to me it is not that, form is some­thing in your mind.

You have to tell your­self that you will get runs be pos­i­tive and it will come your way. This was ba­si­cal­ly the mes­sage that my wife sent to me. "Mov­ing on­wards from here I am look­ing to con­tin­ue in the same way and con­tin­ue get­ting runs at the top of the or­der for my team. Bat­ting in this match was dif­fi­cult but in the end I was able to get through and get the runs and this has done a lot for me, mov­ing in­to the se­mi-fi­nals of the tour­na­ment."

War­riors will now sit and await the win­ners of the Red Steel and Tallawahs game to­day to see who they bat­tle on Sat­ur­day.

Sim­mons thinks it will be the Tallawahs: "I think that Tallawahs will beat Red Steel and play us in the se­mi-fi­nals. They are a dan­ger­ous team and I don't think Red Steel will get past them in there game."