Bar­ba­dos are like­ly to face the wrath of Shiv Chan­der­paul af­ter the West In­dies bats­man de­clared him­self avail­able for se­lec­tion for Guyana's fifth round, WICB re­gion­al first class cham­pi­onship match here this week­end. Chan­der­paul has not played a sin­gle match in the tour­na­ment af­ter fail­ing to re­cov­er from a fin­ger in­jury he sus­tained on the Test tour of Aus­tralia late last year, and which al­so kept him out of the on­go­ing one-day tour there.

He will be a wel­come re­turn to the Guyana side which has strug­gled in the com­pe­ti­tion so far and are bot­tom of the ta­bles on sev­en points af­ter los­ing two games and draw­ing one. "At the mo­ment, I can grip my bat hav­ing had a few ses­sions in the nets and con­sul­ta­tions with my doc­tor and there were no signs of pain," the Guyana Chron­i­cle quot­ed Chan­der­paul as say­ing. "I had some con­cerns with field­ing but thank God, I am OK in that area and once se­lect­ed, will­ing to rep­re­sent Guyana in the re­main­der of the tour­na­ment."

The left-hand­ed Chan­der­paul re­turned from his home in Flori­da last Wednes­day and CMC Sports un­der­stands that he trained with the Guyana squad in Berbice yes­ter­day, as they pre­pared for the week­end clash against their archri­vals at Al­bion. A fi­nal 13-man squad is ex­pect­ed to be named to­mor­row and Chan­der­paul is ex­pect­ed to fea­ture in the side. He is Guyana's most ex­pe­ri­enced bats­man, hav­ing amassed 8669 runs from 123 Tests at an av­er­age of near­ly 49. Guyana is al­so miss­ing their oth­er ex­pe­ri­enced Test bats­man in Ramnaresh Sar­wan who has been side­lined with in­jury. (CMC)