Je­lani Beck­les

The T&T Red Force, led by cap­tain Ja­son Mo­hammed, will hope to turn the screws when the sec­ond half of the West In­dies Crick­et Board (WICB) Re­gion­al Four-Day tour­na­ment re­sumes to­day.

Fourth-placed T&T will face lead­ers Guyana at the Guyana Na­tion­al Sta­di­um from 10 am, a team it de­feat­ed on the way to the Nagi­co Su­per50 ti­tle, which was held in T&T last month. In the semi­fi­nal of the Nagi­co Su­per50 tour­na­ment at the Queen's Park Oval in Port-of-Spain, T&T de­feat­ed Guyana by 54 runs, be­fore de­feat­ing Bar­ba­dos by 72 runs in the fi­nal on Jan­u­ary 23 al­so played at the Queen's Park Oval.

T&T will aim for a more con­sis­tent show­ing in the sec­ond half of the four-day com­pe­ti­tion af­ter win­ning on­ly one match in its first five match­es of the sea­son.

T&T head coach Gus Lo­gie is hop­ing for more suc­cess dur­ing the sec­ond half of the sea­son, which has been on a break since the mid­dle of De­cem­ber be­cause of Christ­mas and the Su­per50 tour­na­ment. Speak­ing ear­li­er this week, Lo­gie said T&T will be look­ing to come out on top in the five re­main­ing match­es.

"We have five games to go. If we can come out on top in the five games, I think we would have done well."

He added: "We are tak­ing it in two parts. The first part of the sea­son is fin­ished and we are in fourth po­si­tion. If we could fin­ish in first po­si­tion in the sec­ond half added to what we have in the first half I think we would be pret­ty good."

Spin is ex­pect­ed to be the ma­jor fea­ture dur­ing the con­test with Im­ran Khan and Jon-Russ Jages­sar lead­ing the charge for T&T. Leg spin­ner Khan is in fourth place on the most wick­ets ta­ble with 26 wick­ets, while new­com­er Jages­sar is hop­ing to con­tin­ue the form he showed dur­ing the Su­per50 tour­na­ment.

Gu­dakesh Motie will aim to keep Guyana at the top of the stand­ings with an­oth­er top per­for­mance. The left-arm spin­ner is lead­ing the bowl­ing charts with 34 wick­ets, while the ex­pe­ri­enced duo of De­ven­dra Bishoo and Veerasam­my Per­maul is ex­pect­ed to give Motie am­ple sup­port.

In the oth­er match start­ing to­day, Bar­ba­dos Pride will face Wind­ward Is­lands Vol­ca­noes at Kens­ing­ton Oval, Bar­ba­dos. The oth­er match fea­tures the Ja­maica Scor­pi­ons and the Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes, which bowled off at the Sir Vi­vian Richards Crick­et Ground, An­tigua, yes­ter­day.

FIX­TURES, SQUADS & STAND­INGS

Lee­wards Hur­ri­canes vs Ja­maica Scor­pi­ons, Sir Vi­vian Richards Crick­et Ground (Feb­ru­ary 11 � Sun­day)

T&T Red Force vs Guyana Jaguars, Guyana Na­tion­al Sta­di­um (To­day � Mon­day)

Bar­ba­dos Pride vs Wind­wards Vol­ca­noes, Kens­ing­ton Oval (To­day � Mon­day)

T&T RED FORCE: Ja­son Mo­hammed (cap­tain), Yan­nic Cari­ah, Nars­ingh De­onar­ine, Rayad Em­rit, Kyle Hope, Akeal Ho­sein, Jon-Russ Jages­sar, Steven Kat­wa­roo, Im­ran Khan, Evin Lewis, Yan­nick Ot­t­ley, Mar­lon Richards, Je­re­my Solozano

GUYANA JAGUARS: Leon John­son (cap­tain), Rons­ford Beat­on, An­tho­ny Bram­ble, Tage­nar­ine Chan­der­paul, Ra­jin­dra Chan­dri­ka, As­sad Fu­dadin, Keon Joseph, Gu­dakesh Motie, Veerasam­my Per­maul, Ray­mon Reifer, Vishaul Singh, De­ven­dra Bishoo

Team P W L D Bt Bl Pts

Guyana 5 5 0 0 10 15 85

Bar­ba­dos 5 3 1 1 9 15 63

Ja­maica 5 3 2 0 5 12 53

T&T 5 1 2 2 8 11 37

Wind­wards 5 1 3 1 3 11 29

Lee­wards 5 0 5 0 0 13 13