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NAGICO Super50 Franchise cricket …Jaguars regroup on Saturday
Team for T&T to be picked next week
By Sean Devers
The 2015 Regional cricket season begins on January 15 with the NAGICO Super50
(Flash back) The Jaguars going through their paces at Providence last year.
cricket tournament in Trinidad & Tobago and the Guyana Jaguars will regroup on Saturday for a fitness test from 08:00hrs at the National Stadium at Providence.
According to Chairman of the National selection panel former Guyana pacer Rayon Griffith, the final 14-man team will be selected next week before two practice matches are played on January 7&9 before the team wings out for the twin Island Republic on January 13.
Barbadian left-handed All-Rounder Raymond Reifer who returned to ‘Bim’ for the Christmas holidays is expected to return to Guyana tomorrow.
Combined Colleges & Campuses (CCC) and the West Indies under-19 team will join the six Regional teams in the tournament which will be divided into two zones. The tournament climaxes on January 25 with the final and the Jaguars are grouped in Zone ‘A’ along with the composite university side along with reigning champions Barbados Pride and the Windward Islands Volcanoes.
Zone ‘B’ comprise of the Windies Under-19s, Jamaica, Leeward Islands Hurricanes and hosts Trinidad & Tobago Red Force. According to the WICB, the tournament is being used by the Windies Under-19s as part of a long-term build-up for the next ICC Under-19 World Cup in 2016.
The preliminary competition will be played on a non-elimination format with each side playing the others in their group once and two matches being contested each day at either the Queen’s Park Oval, the T&T Cricket Board’s National Cricket Centre in the central Trinidad community of Couva or Shaw Park in Scarborough, the capital of Trinidad’s sister island Tobago.
The top two teams from each group advance to the semi-finals at the Oval, where the group winners play the runners-up from the opposite group in a one-off match for a place in the Grand Final.
The Jaguars go into action on the opening day when they face-off with the Volcanoes before opposing Barbados Pride on January 17 and CCC on January 19 before the ‘final-Four’ stage of the tournament commence on January 22 with the first semi-final.
All of the Jaguars games will be played at the Queens Park Oval and they will be without Leon Johnson and Narsingh Deonarine, who are in South Africa with the West Indies limited overs side and possibly Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Shemron Hetmyer, who are both expected to be in Young West Indies side.
The Four-Day version of the Franchise tournament resumes on February 6 when leaders Jaguars face-off with second place Jamaica in Kingston Jamaica in a fifth round encounter.
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