The Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago cricket teams affectionately known by their respective supporters as the “Amazon Conquerors” and “Red Fury” in recent times, clash this evening at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua, in a crucial Group A match of the 2012 Caribbean Twenty20 competition, in which the winner will almost certainly have one foot in the semi-finals.
Ever since that famous evening on August 13, 2006, when Narsingh Deonarine swung Samuel Badree over mid-wicket for six, to clinch the inaugural Stanford 20/20 competition – battles between the neighbouring countries at regional limited overs level over the past five years have been extremely feisty.
The most recent exchange between these opponents occurred last October during the Regional Super50 tournament hosted by Guyana, which ended with the Trinidadians ousting the Guyanese in the semi-final in a four-wicket triumph.
With another chapter in this pulsating rivalry likely to be written this evening, Stabroek Sport spoke to a number of