Guyana will play T&T in a T20 cricket festival at the end of the month at Guaracara Park in Pointe-a-Pierre. President of the TTCB, Azim Bassarath revealed that the T&T Cricket Board (TTCB) has invited Guyana to take part in the four-team series. They will come up against the T&T senior team, a T&T B team and the T&T Under-23 team. The matches will be played from December 28 to 30 and two matches will be played per day.
According to Bassarath: "We decided this year to cancel the annual North/South Classic because we wanted to have our senior cricketers in T20 mode. Remember they are going to play in the regional T20 cricket series in January, so we wanted some meaningful T20 stuff for them and not the longer version, which was the North/South Classic. "In order to give them good preparation, we decided to contact the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) and they kindly obliged to send their team to T&T to play in the series. Guyana are the defending champions and we are happy to report that both Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ramnaresh Sarwan have confirmed their availability for the series."
Bassarath continued: "We have many quality players who would not have made it into the final T&T team and we are going to form a B Team which should also be very competitive in the series. Add to this we are going to bring in the Under-23 team to also play in the series and again we have some very good players on that team as well. "All in all we are trying our best to provide our team with the best preparation and we are looking forward to great things from them in the regional T20 cricket series." (VM)