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WICB Women’s T20 bowls off today at Providence Guyana play Leewards tonight under lights
Tremayne Smartt (Guy)
By Sean Devers
After Trinidad & Tobago won the rain affected West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Women’s senior Super50 Tournament last Sunday at Everest after the Final against defending Champions Barbados was washed out, the action now shifts to the t20 format from today at Providence.
All of the games will be played at the Providence Stadium with three games being contested on the same day. The competition will be run over four days ending with the semi-finals and final and Monday. The first match commences from 09:00hrs, the second from 14:00hrs and the final game under lights from 19:00hrs. No t20 tournament was played last year.
The feature game for local fans is set for tonight and involves Guyana and the Leeward Islands, who will play for the first time in a Regional t20 match.
Barbados battle T&T in the opening game, while the Windwards come up against Jamaica in the 14:00hrs encounter.
Guyana’s batting will hinge on openers Melanie Henry and Latoya Smith, while West Indies player Shemaine Campbelle could play a crucial role as the team’s best batter at number three. Lashuna Toussaint, Heema Singh and all-rounders Skipper Tremayne Smartt and Akaze Thompson are also capable batters for the home team.
Guyana’s pace quartet of left-arm pacer Erva Giddings, Sabrina Munroe, Smartt (all with Windies experience) along with the powerful Thompson should all produce with the ball tonight while talented off-spinner Plaffiana Millington and Mandy Mangru should enjoy the Providence track which should assists the spinners.
Leewards’ Skipper Shawnisha Hector has good pace and along with Mellisa Clarke, who captured the first wicket in Regional cricket by a Leewards female player, are hard workers. Saneldo Willett, the daughter of Elquemedo Willett, the first Test Cricketer from the Leewards and sister of First-Class player Tonito Willett and Amanda Edwards who is capable of some big hitting in the lower order, could be Guyana’s biggest threat.
The opening game sees Barbados and T&T, two of the most experienced teams in the competition, going head to head in what is expected to be the most competitive game today.
T&T with 10 players with West Indies experience in their side including Skipper and former Windies Captain Merissa Aguilleira, Britney Cooper and top ranked International off-spinner Anisa Mohamed, along with Openers Shenelle Lord and Lee-Ann Kirby would be expected to provide the girls from Carnival Country a good platform to launch from.
Barbados will depend on skipper Captain Shaquana Quintyne and her West Indies Women’s team-mates, opener Hayley Matthews and all-rounder Deandra Dottin to produce today for a team that has six players with West Indies experience.
The second match pits the Windwards against last year’s 50-over runners-up Jamaica.
The Windwards failed to play a single game in the rain ruined 50 overs format is led by West Indies player Afy Fletcher and Coached by Guyanese born Vincentian Clayton Burnette, while the powerful Jamaicans are Captained by number one ranked International batter Stefani Taylor who would be keen to show her class after she only managed 5 in the 50-over game against Guyana.
Vice-Captain and West Indies player Chedean Nation and Rashada Williams looked good in their last game while Shanel Daley, Tameka Sanford, Natasha McLean, Jodian Morgan and Vanessa Watts have shown in the past that they are quality performers for the lasses from the land of Wood & Water.
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