Amazon Kings excited for this year’s tournaments – Canada-based Guyanese Legay

May 14, 2022 Sports

Kaieteur News – Captain of Amazon Kings Dennis Legay is cautiously optimistic of his team making a big impression this year in various competitions across the Greater Toronto Area.
Amazon Kings will begin things today against Toronto United in the Mississauga Cricket League’s T20 Super-8 tournament.

Dennis Legay

According to the former Guyana under-15 player Legay, his team, which is loaded with a bunch of ex-Guyana cricketers, is “excited” to get on the field having featured in the championship game last year.
“I am confident that our payers will give a good account this time having played in the final last year; we are motivated, excited and ready to go,” Legay assured.
Legay also informed that Amazon Kings will be participating in the forthcoming Unity Cup T20 extravaganza from May 20th to 23rd in Brampton where teams will be vying for a first prize of Cds $15,000.
“Yes, there are lots of tournaments for this year and with the formation of the club in 2021, I have seen tremendous interest by my fellow Guyanese cricketers who are now residing in Canada and want to play the game professionally so I am heartened to see we can play as a group,” Legay, the left-arm orthodox spinner, related.
Some players who represented Guyana at different levels and included in the Amazon Kings side are: Dillon Heyliger, Jeremey Gordon, Royston Crandon, Farook Hussain, Harrinarine Chattergoon, Devon Ramnauth and Eugene Lafleur while Abdool Samad and Aftab Shamsudeen are Guyanese who played for Canada internationally.
Legay, who started his cricketing career at prominent Georgetown’s base club Malteenoes Sports Club, stated that team is very formidable and full of talents and banking heavily on their experience as well.
“I came up with the idea during the Covid time in 2021 to form a cricket team with my West Indian cricket peers; I first called Elton Baker and Heyliger to share what I was thinking and the more people I called the more excited I got and everyone was very supportive from then and these are all experienced cricketers and to reach in the final last year was commendable and now I am confident they would want to make a big impact this year,” Legay declared.
Legay said he would like to thank the president Shameer Ali and manager Rambo Purnwasi for their support and assistance in every way to build the team along with his good friend Rex Collymore.
Legay has also acknowledged the generosity of the team’s sponsors: Crown, ALARM TECHZ, KP Employment Solutions Inc, Pizza Pizza (Mattew), Caribbean Lyme Restaurant, Ellite Plastering Inc, Revivi Auto Collision Inc and We Want Electric Ontario Inc.