The Guyana team for the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional Super50 competition departed Guyana yesterday confident of success.
The members of the team had assembled at the Windjammer Hotel, Kitty where they met with president and secretary of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Drubahadur and Anand Sanasie respectively both of whom wished the team success.
The tournament bowls off tomorrow with a triple header with Guyana opposing the Leeward Islands at the Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Ground, Antigua, Barbados playing Jamaica at Bridgetown, Barbados and the Windward Islands opposing the Combined Campuses and Colleges team at Gros Islet, St Lucia. Guyana Captain Veerasammy Permaul was yesterday upbeat about Guyana’s chances stating that team spirit was high heading into the Regional First Class season.
Permaul said that he was confident that Guyana would take their success in the Caribbean T20 one step further by winning the Super50 competition.
Tagenarine Chanderpaul, Keon Joseph and Amir Khan, members of the Four-Day squad did not leave with the other players yesterday but will depart tomorrow ahead of the team’s opening four-day game which begins on Saturday against the Leeward Islands at the same venue.
Teams in the competition have the opportunity to make three changes to their squads after the completion of a round of four-day and one day matches. As such, there is a possibility that players on Guyana’s standby list may be added to either the four-day or the one-day teams at some point during the WICB’s domestic season.
Super50 squad: Rajendra Chandrika, Trevon Griffith, Leon Johnson, Assad Fudadin, Christopher Barnwell (vice-captain), Steven Jacobs, Rajiv Ivan, Derwin Christian, Veerasammy Permaul (captain), Devendra Bishoo, Ronsford Beaton, Paul Wintz and Ricardo Adams.
Four-day squad: Rajendra Chandrika, Tagenarine Chanderpaul, Leon Johnson, (vice-captain), Assad Fudadin, Christopher Barnwell, Steven Jacobs, Derwin Christian, Veerasammy Permaul (captain), Devendra Bishoo, Ronsford Beaton, Paul Wintz, Keon Joseph and Amir Khan.
Standby players: Delbert Hicks, Anthony Bramble, Chanderpaul Hemraj, Vishal Singh, Zaheer Mohamed, Royston Crandon, Brandon Bess, Richard Ramdeen, Sewnarine Chattergoon, Anthony Adams, Delon Heyliger, Clinton Pestano, Robin Bacchus, Andre Stoll and Jason Sinclair.
