Guyana Harpy Eagles head coach Esuan Crandon says his side is fine-tuning preparations for the resumption of the Regional first-class season next month.
Stabroek Sport caught up with the Level Three Coach at the Everest Cricket Club ground yesterday where the franchise players were going through their paces along with assistant coach, Ryan Hercules.
According to Crandon, all is not lost after just two of the five-round tournament completed but rather, now the team is conditioning themselves to reprise their title especially in familiar territory.
“Three to go I think our main objective is to believe that we can still win those last three games and then the competition. The first two games were very competitive, we lost one and won one. I think a good advantage going into Trinidad is knowing the conditions, we would have played there already so I think that should be an advantage going there,” Crandon said.
Guyana will play Barbados Pride and Trinidad and Tobago Red Force at the Queen’s Park Oval when they head to the twin-island republic.
“The main focus for me to in this group is try and get the guys in the right frame of mind from now with multiple practice games coming up so we would want to try and execute well in those games on the things we have been training on for the past couple of weeks, see how well the guys can adapt in different conditions and situations.
“They would be able to fine-tune them and prepare themselves to go into the other half of the tournament,” Crandon detailed.
The players went through a fitness test on Monday at the Synthetic track and field facility, Leonora and Crandon revealed that there were mixed results with “a couple of disappointing scores from a few guys” but overall expressed his satisfaction with the outcome.
“Once we get that out the way a lot more focus will be on skill and technical work like game plan and so on and how guys would want to play in Trinidad,” he noted. The head coach related that the blend between the senior and new players has been “very good.”
He added that the senior players like skipper, Leon Johnson and vice-captain, Keemo Paul have been setting a good example for the younger players and have assisted them with their development.
He also mentioned that the attitude has been fantastic from the youngsters such as Matthew Nandu and Mavindra Dindyal who have shown improvements throughout the sessions.
