ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, (CMC)-Leaders Guyana Jaguars will be seeking to put themselves beyond the reach of title contenders Barbados Pride and Windward Islands Volcanoes when they face Jamaica in the WICB Professional Cricket League (PCL) which resumes today.Jaguars posted a stunning victory over Pride heading into last weekend’s tournament break while Jamaica suffered another setback losing to Trinidad and Tobago Red Force
Guyana, playing at home, will be looking to land their fifth straight victory, to spoil the title chasing ambitions of Pride and Volcanoes while the visitors will be seeking to avoid their fourth straight defeat.
Both sides have made one change to their squad from the previous round.
West Indies left-hander Assad Fudadin has recovered from the injury that cut short his Test tour of South Africa last December and will take the place of rookie Shimron Hetmyer.
Chadwick Walton, the West Indies reserve wicketkeeper/batsman on that trip to South Africa, gets his first match of the season with the Franchisers, replacing Horace Miller.
Meantime, at Warner Park, The Barbados Pride will attempt to exploit The Leeward Islands Hurricanes, the Cinderella team in the tournament.
Both sides enter the match wounded from their last encounter- the Pride suffering their first defeat of the season and the Hurricanes slumping to their seventh straight loss inside three days.
Victory with a huge haul of batting and bowling points for highly favoured Pride would keep the pressure on the Jaguars.
Kraigg Brathwaite’s side travelled with an unchanged squad from the previous round while their hosts have brought back Montcin Hodge, Jacques Taylor, Anthony Martin and Hayden Walsh Jr in place of Yannick Leonard, Austin Richards Jr, along with the unrelated Peters, Orlando and Sherwin.
In Couva, Trinidad: The presence of Kieron Pollard could help to make the contest between Red Force and Volcanoes at the National Cricket Centre, the most competitive of the round.
The 27-year-old Pollard will be playing his first match of the season for the Red Force and should add a great deal of substance to their batting, which has been inconsistent this season.
The two sides enter the match on a high, following confident victories inside three days in their previous matches before the break, which broke a spell of four straight losses for the Red Force and gave the Volcanoes their third straight victory.
Apart from Pollard replacing Shannon Gabriel, promising left-hander Jeremy Solozano has returned from the injury list for the Red Force and fellow left-handed opener Evin Lewis loses out.
Romel Currency and Dalton Polius replaced the sidelined Sunil Ambris and injured Andre Fletcher in the Volcanoes squad,
Also, uncapped Grenadian wicketkeeper/batsman Denis Smith has been given a late call after Johnson Charles was flown out to be part of the West Indies squad at the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, when injury forced Darren Bravo to return home.
