– males to play in St Vincent, females in Trinidad
A strong Guyana Girls Under-19 team left for Trinidad and Tobago for the Cricket West Indies (CWI) Rising Stars Women’s Under-19 tournament. The opening round of the tournament bowls off on July 4, with Guyana squaring off against Windward Islands in the opening round at Gilbert Park.
The aforementioned match will be complemented by two more exciting games: Leeward Islands battling Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago battling Barbados, completing Round One’s trio of matches.
Guyana Under-19 Male team
Guyana are set to field a strong team, with five national players from the women’s senior team – Ashmini Munisar, the skipper; Realeanna Grimmond; Cyanna Retemiah; Tilleya Madramootoo and Nya Latchman – making up the core.
Grimmond and company played for Guyana during the recent CWI Women’s Senior 50-over and T20 tournaments, and are expected to play a big role for their team. They will seek to lead the likes of young players such as Naomi Barkoye, Sarah Amin, Emlissa Whyte and other upcoming stars who will need the leadership and experience of their more senior teammates if Guyana will have any chance of winning this year’s tournament.
The Guyana team were encamped for a little over a week at the Guyana Cricket Board’s LBI Facility alongside Coach Tremayne Smartt and Manager Hema Singh, as part of the team’s gelling and training preparations ahead of the competition, which is expected to be of the highest level in women’s U-19 cricket.
Guyana’s U-19 women team: Ashmini Munisar (Captain); Realeanna Grimmond (Vice Captain); Cyanna Retemiah; Nya Latchman; Tilleya Madramootoo; Naomi Barkoye; Melanie Dover; Sarah Amin; Jamie Campbell; Lavina Ragobeer; Emlissa Whyte; Tia Isaacs; Laurene Williams and Denellie Lindie.
Meanwhile, the Guyana Under-19 male team also winged out ahead of the upcoming CWI Rising Stars Boys Under-19 tournament.
Skipper Mavendra Dindyal will lead a strong team featuring a bevy of stars. The tournament bowls off in St Vincent from July 4 and ends August 1 while the team will return home on August 2.
Guyana Under-19 female team
The competition will feature the respective territories across the West Indies with tons of young future stars representing their respective countries in what is anticipated to be a high-level competition.
Andre Percival, the former Guyana all-rounder, will return as the team’s Head Coach while Nazeer Mohamed will serve as the Manager.
Among the talents who performed well last year are stars such as Rampertab Ramnauth; Dindyal; West Indies Under-19 pacer Isai Thorne and Guyana’s leading run-scorer in last year’s tournament, Shamar Yearwood. Guyana will enter the tournament as one of the favourites in the competition. Zeynul Ramsammy, Aryan Persaud and Thaddeus Lovell are expected to lend good support in both the batting and bowling departments.
Dindyal and his men will face the Jamaicans in the opening round on July 4, while Trinidad and Tobago will play Barbados, with Windwards Islands and Leewards Islands completing the opening round of games.
Guyana U-19 male squad reads: Rampertab Ramnauth; Shaahid Vieira (wicketkeeper); Mavendra Dindyal (Captain); Alvin Mohabir; Jonathan Rampersaud (Vice Captain); Zachary Jodah; Thaddeus Lovell; Aryan Persaud; Joash Charles; Zeynul Ramsammy; Shamar Yearwood; Jeremy Sandia; Rivaldo Phillips and Isai Thorne.
