West Indies Championships: GHE size up Windies Academy today in day/night encounter

…Motie, Junior Sinclair in; as Chanderpaul, Joseph battle injuries

Ahead of Round 3 of the 2025 West Indies Championships bowling off today, the Guyana Harpy Eagles (GHE) have made some forced changes to the squad owing to injury and precautionary measures, but
West Indies all-format spinner Gudakesh Motie is returning to the squad.
As Motie makes his return for Round Three of these Championships, opening batsman Tagenarine Chanderpaul will not be participating therein because he has split the webbing on his hand. And Shamar Joseph, who had just returned from a shin splint injury, will sit this round out on a ‘precautionary basis’, according to the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB). As such, Junior Sinclair would make his way into the 13-member squad.

The Harpy Eagles will come up against the West Indies Academy from 13:00hrs today in a day/night, pink-ball game. Prior to the encounter, Captain Tevin Imlach shared what would be his team’s approach to the game, and the lesson’s they would be taking from their last encounter.
“The twilight period is obviously a challenge; that’s when the ball tends to do a lot more. So, we’ll take that into account in our planning, get a few practice sessions in, and hopefully, we could build a good plan around that game,” Imlach has said.
Referring to lessons learnt from last Saturday’s victory against the Combined Campuses and Colleges, Imlach related, “A lot of confidence! Obviously, winning is a massive thing for a team moving forward, but I think we needed this little hiccup early on in the first innings; just to get them to understand that, you know, no team is going to come and roll over and just give us their wickets or allow us to beat them. So, it was needed. Both negative and positive we’ll take from it, and learn and move forward.”
The Guyana Harpy Eagles squad now reads: Captain and Wicket-keeper Tevin Imlach; Vice-Captain Kemol Savory; Matthew Nandu, Raymond Perez, Kevlon Anderson, Ronaldo Alimohamed, Kevin Sinclair, Gudakesh Motie, Veerasammy Permaul, Thaddeus Lovell, Nial Smith, Richie Looknauth and Junior Sinclair.
Coach: Ryan Hercules
Manager: Albert Clements
Assistant Coach: Garvin Nedd
Physiotherapist: Angelica Holder
Analyst: Ryerson Bhagoo
Strength and Conditioning Coach: Jarryl Moore.
West Indies Academy squad reads: Captain Teddy Bishop; wicketkeeper Carlton Bowen-Tuckett; Mavendra Dindyal, Ackeem Auguste, Justin Jagessar, Rivaldo Clarke, Joshua Bishop, Johann Layne, McKenny Clarke, Jediah Blades, Zishan Motara, Michael Palmer and Nathan Edward.
After two rounds of competition, the Leeward Islands Hurricanes are currently leaders on the points table with a slim .2 advantage over the defending champions Guyana Harpy Eagles. While the Hurricanes have 45.4 points, GHE have 45.2 points. Trinidad and Tobago Red Force are third with 44.4 points. Jamaica Scorpions are fourth with 29.4 points, while Barbados Pride complete the top five with 28.6 points.