Vin­ode Mam­chan

Trinidad and To­ba­go will have the ser­vices of all their West In­dies stars, when they op­pose Guyana to­mor­row at the Queen's Park Oval in their third round re­gion­al crick­et clash.

The West In­dies Crick­et Board (WICB) has man­dat­ed all West In­dies play­ers to play in the third round if they are in­ter­est­ed in be­ing se­lect­ed for the Test se­ries against Zim­bab­we which gets un­der­way next Tues­day at Kens­ing­ton Oval in Bar­ba­dos.

Man­ag­er of the T&T team Omar Khan said yes­ter­day that all play­ers have in­di­cat­ed their will­ing­ness to play and will be avail­able.

The play­ers in­di­cat­ing that they want to play are Dwayne Bra­vo, skip­per De­nesh Ramdin, Dar­ren Bra­vo, Sunil Nar­ine, Samuel Badree, Shan­non Gabriel, Lendl Sim­mons and Ke­iron Pol­lard.

T&T are cur­rent­ly fourth in the stand­ings af­ter win­ning their sec­ond round clash against the Lee­wards on the week­end in St Kitts. They lost their open­ing match to the Wind­wards in St Vin­cent.

Khan wel­comed the re­turn of the stars: "We are hap­py to have the guys back but be­fore the tour­na­ment start­ed we knew that we will have to deal with play­ers be­ing in and out of the team at dif­fer­ent times.

"We are hap­py to have the guys, I am sure Guyana will have their Test play­ers as well and it will make for a great bat­tle at the Oval. The team al­though los­ing the first match, played won­der­ful­ly well to win the sec­ond game and I must con­grat­u­late the young play­ers on the squad who have re­al­ly come good when re­quired.

"Yan­nic Cari­ah is show­ing that he is de­vel­op­ing in­to a spe­cial tal­ent, while Yan­nick Ot­t­ley in his de­but game against the Lee­wards was very good and showed that he be­longed at that lev­el.

"Al­so on de­but in the last round was Stephen Kat­wa­roo and he bat­ted well in both in­nings, showed great ma­tu­ri­ty and is def­i­nite­ly one of the fu­ture."

The Guyanese team ar­rived in T&T on Sun­day and took in a prac­tice ses­sion at the Oval yes­ter­day. To­day, the na­tion­al team will as­sem­ble and put in their fi­nal prepa­ra­tions for the match.