Guyana will qualify for the Champions League

Jan 10, 2012 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
The continuing rift between the Guyana Cricket Board and the Government-installed Interim Management Committee will have an impact on the national cricket team that belatedly left to compete in the WICB 20/20 tournament in Antigua.
Whether that impact will be positive or negative, only time will tell, as at the time of writing this letter, the team will be engaging in its first match against the Leeward Islands.
My support for the team, however, stems from the conviction that they will defy all odds and place passion and pride as their guiding principle towards supremacy.
With Christopher Barnwell at the helm and someone whose emotions are openly contagious; I can only vouch that the team will respond in the same fashion and will dispel all doubts about their ability at a time of crisis.
There can only be one winner, beginning from home and then to Antigua and finally Barbados and it will have to be the Guyanese players, who have tasted such success before and know how to win. I have noted the Jamaican coach’s concern – which alluded to his team amassing too many dot balls – and am sure it will be a primary concern as well for Guyana.
The team must be the aggressor from the inception, and therefore Chanderpaul and Griffith should be at the top of the order which can realize stability, common sense and risk taking.
It is therefore my belief that team unity will be the key in every department and while adequate and receptive prior preparation may have to be thrown to the wind; one’s ability can never be taken for granted, especially in cricket, and the fact that there is the burning desire to succeed.
It is therefore an opportune time for all Guyanese to rally around the Amazon Conquerors and those that so passionately keep the Golden Arrowhead flying from all parts of the globe, as the team prepares to conquer their counterparts and register a place for the Champions League in India later this year.
Guyanese are known to be people of resolve; characteristics of which embody the team, which has a purposeful blend of quality, experience and proven youth that not only will realize the expected results, but has guys who will provide proof of their mental capabilities to reason the game collectively as it unfolds.
It means that Ransford Beaton can hold his nerves in restricting any batsman for an over that needs six to win and that Narsingh Deonarine can repeat his heroics en route to our first 20/20 glory.
Guyana will initially qualify for the second round in Barbados and realistically will have to understand the variables of the slower tracks in Antigua as against the South African-like conditions of Barbados that will test our adaptability to the quicks.
Barring those technical and climatic hurdles the Guyana team will be on its way to India, if not comfortably, then spectacularly.
Elroy Stephney

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