T&T Un­der-17 crick­eters are set to be­gin the 50-Over leg of the Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Ris­ing Stars U-17 Cham­pi­onship to­day against Guyana at the In­shan Ali Park in Preysal, Cou­va, Sun­day af­ter fin­ish­ing third in the Two-Day com­pe­ti­tion, which end­ed on Thurs­day.

The home team de­feat­ed Ja­maica by 10 runs at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre (NCC) in Bal­main, Cou­va, with Ra’ed Ali Khan set­ting up the win with sev­en wick­ets in the first in­nings.

The lo­cal U-17 crick­eters will hope to take the mo­men­tum in­to the short­er for­mat and de­fend the ti­tle they won last year un­der the then lead­er­ship of Bren­dan Boodoo, who is cur­rent­ly with the West In­dies U-19 team, prepar­ing for a sev­en-match Youth One Day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries against Sri Lan­ka in An­tigua.

This time around, cap­tain Saleem Khan and com­pa­ny will try to keep the tro­phy in the twin-is­land re­pub­lic for an­oth­er year.

The bowl­ing will re­ly again on fast­bowler Daniel Hold­er, who took match fig­ures of ten for 38 against Guyana at the Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain, last week, pac­er Re­nal­do Fournil­li­er and spin­ner Ra’ed Ali Khan, whose sev­en for 37 helped set up the win against Ja­maica mid­week.

Guyana, on the oth­er hand, will be bank­ing on Adri­an Het­my­er, who scored 45 against T&T in the two-day tour­na­ment, which end­ed drawn. How­ev­er, he will aim to rep­re­sent his fam­i­ly with dis­tinc­tion, fol­low­ing in the foot­steps of his un­cle, West In­dies Shim­ron Het­my­er, cur­rent­ly ply­ing his trade with the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors in the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL).

The T&T team will next play Wind­ward Is­lands at Gilbert Park in Cal­i­for­nia, Cou­va on Tues­day, Ja­maica at NCC on Thurs­day, Lee­ward Is­lands al­so at NCC on Sat­ur­day, and Bar­ba­dos at Gilbert Park on In­de­pen­dence Day (Au­gust 31).

In oth­er match­es to­day, Wind­ward Is­lands takes on Ja­maica at the Queen’s Park Oval and at NCC, Lee­ward Is­lands face Bar­ba­dos.

All match­es be­gin at 9.30 am.