Guyana National U17 Team departs for Trinidad & Tobago

The Guyana Cricket Board’s (GCB’s) National Under-17 team departed the local shores on Thursday for the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago to participate in the West Indies Future Stars U-17 Championships.

This 50-over tournament will see Guyana facing the 5 other regional counterparts: defending champions Barbados, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, hosts Trinidad & Tobago, and the Windward Islands, in a round-robin format wherein each team will face the other once.
Guyana’s first challenge will be against Trinidad & Tobago in a match to be played in Balmain-Couva. The Guyanese will look to start their campaign on a positive note, especially as that match will be followed by a clash against defending champions Barbados.
The U-17 squad is being captained by Sheldon Charles, with the Manager/Assistant Coach being Nazeer Mohamed and the Head Coach being Orin Bailey.
The title has eluded this Guyana squad for a number of years; the closest they have ever come to winning the U17 title was in 2016, when Guyana placed second after their final game against the host nation, Trinidad and Tobago, was washed out.
This current Guyana team has some of the best players from the recently concluded Inter- County tournament, so they somewhat fancy their chances at winning this time. In 2018, the local side also came in third, with Barbados lifting the trophy.
The current U17 squad is as follows: Matthew Nandu, Sarwan Chitnarine, Marvan Prashad, Mavendra Dindyal, Niran Bissu, Zeynul Ramsammy, Andre Seepersaud, Sheldon Charles, Azizi Christiani, Chandrapaul Ramraj, Jagdesh Dowlatram, Chaitram Balgobin, Avinash Rajkumar and Ajay Gainda.
The team is scheduled to return home on July 14.