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Jaguars name 13-man squad for Friday’s opening game
Chandrika returns from S/Lanka, injured Permaul out
Cricket Guyana Inc yesterday announced their 13-man squad for Guyana Jaguars’ opening game in the Caribbean Professional League (CPL) Four-Day First-Class Cricket game against the Windwards Volcanoes from Friday at Providence
Leon Johnson
from 09:30hrs.
The Jaguars won the inaugural 2014-2015 Franchise tournament, suffering just a single loss and will again start their campaign with three home matches like they did last year.
The National selectors led by Chairman Rayon Griffith, the former Guyana pacer, has come up with an excellent squad which has no major surprises although Barbadian pacer Jevon Searles, one of two players bough by Guyana, is a notable omission.
West Indies ‘A’ team fast bowler Ronsford Beaton and the Berbice pair of Keon Joseph and Raun Johnson were more impressive with the ball leading up to Friday’s match with Beaton and Joseph being included on what is expected a traditional low and slow Providence track.
In addition to Narsingh Deonarine, the Jaguars’ leading batsman from the first edition who is now playing for T&T Red Steels, both of their test spinners are unavailable.
Leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo is with the West Indies limited overs team in Sri Lanka with left-arm spinner Veerasammy out due to an ankle injury. Permaul finished with the most wickets (69), while Bishoo was second in the tournament with 61.
Opening batsman Rajendra Chandrika who picked for the two-test series in Sri Lanka but was not selected for either of them, returns to the team and should look to notch up his maiden First-Class century this year to press for a place in the side which travels ‘down under’ next month for three-test series against Australia.
Apart from Guyana’s newest Test player Chandrika, all of the other top six batsmen are left-handers including Shiv Chanderpaul who will want to prove that he is still good enough for a Test re-call.
Rajendra Chandrika
Talented West Indies U-19 opener Shemron Hetymer, Test batsman Assad Fudadin and Chandrika are the openers selected although both Fudadin and Hetymer could bat in the middle order.
Skipper Leon Johnson, another player with Test experience, could bat at three or four while Vice-Captain Vishaul Singh is a well organised batsman and bats with a level head.
Left-handed all-rounder Raymon Reifer, the only overseas player selected for the opening game, has shown that he is an asset to the team with either bat or ball while Wicketkeeper Anthony Bramble and off-spinner Steven Jacobs, who could have plenty of work to do with the ball, are also competent batsmen.
Chris Barnwell is the second medium pace all rounder in the 13 while former West Indies under-19 left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie ‘flighted’ the ball nicely and bowled with good variation in the last practice game at Providence and was the obvious replacement for Permaul.
All of the contracted players including those with Academy contracts will continue to practice with the Jaguars squad and are all eligible for any of the 10 matches the defending Champs will play.
The Guyana Jaguars team read: Rajendra Chandrika, Assad Fudadin, Shemron Hetymer, Leon Johnson (Captain), Vishaul Singh (Vice-Captain), Shiv Chanderpaul, Raymon Reifer, Anthony Bramble, Steven Jacobs, Gudakesh Motie, Ronsford Beaton, Chris Barnwell, Keon Joseph, Esuan Crandon (Head Coach), Rayon Griffith (Assistant Coach). (Sean Devers)
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