AFTER two years, the Regional Four-Day Championship makes a return from Wednesday with matches in Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago.

It will be just five rounds instead of the usual ten, after the season was curtailed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Guyana Harpy Eagles depart these shores today after completing their COVID-19 tests on Friday. They head to Trinidad for back-to-back matches at the Queen’s Park Oval. First against Windward Volcanoes from February 9 then Leeward Hurricanes from February 16.

Head coach Esaun Crandon told local media operatives they are keen on taking each game at a time, and, to get back to winning ways they need to perform well, especially the batters.
Eagles won the title five consecutive seasons since 2014 until Barbados Pride copped it in 2020.

Captain Leon Johnson also insisted that the batters need to apply themselves in the transition from the slew of white-ball cricket.

Apart from a ton each from Shimron Hetmyer and Tevin Imlach in the three warm up matches and a few fifties, the batting underperformed.

Unlike most of the occasions in the past, Eagles will have the talent of Hetmyer available for selection and the international player they don’t have available is Romario Shepherd, who is in India on West Indies duties.

The squad reads: Leon Johnson (xaptain), Keemo Paul (vice-captain), Chandrapaul Hemraj, Tagenarine Chanderpaul, Vishaul Singh, Akshaya Persaud, Anthony Bramble, Tevin Imlach,
Veerasammy Permaul, Gudakesh Motie, Nial Smith, Clinton Pestano, Shimron Hetmyer, Keon Joseph and Antony Adams.

The reserves are: Kemol Savory, Junior Sinclair, Kevin Sinclair, Kevlon Anderson, Ronsford Beaton, Trevon Griffith and Demitri Cameron.