De­fend­ing Caribbean Sin­glewick­et cham­pi­on Dwayne Smith will have to be at his best at Sat­ur­day's sec­ond an­nu­al event as In­di­an Pre­mier League star Kieron Pol­lard will be among 12 all­rounders aim­ing for the top prize of US$7,000.The top all­rounders in the Caribbean will bat­tle at UWI, St Au­gus­tine from 4 pm to 11 pm in what is de­scribed as a sev­en-hour crick­et and mu­sic ex­trav­a­gan­za. The play­ers will line up in four groups of three in one-on-one match­es with each play­er fac­ing two overs. Field­s­men and wick­et­keep­ers will take part to make up the crick­et reg­u­la­tions.

In group one, Lendl Sim­mons (T&T), Mar­lon Richards (T&T) and De­von Thomas (An­tigua) will square off. In group two, de­fend­ing cham­pi­on Smith (Bar­ba­dos), Nars­ingh De­onar­ine (Guyana) and a UWI wild card, who has not yet been se­lect­ed, will bat­tle.Pol­lard (T&T), who is one of the most pop­u­lar T20 play­ers in the world, will head­line group three. Stand­ing in Pol­lard's way will be Kevon Coop­er (T&T) and Michael Brown (An­tigua). Christo­pher Barn­well (Guyana) and the T&T duo of Rayad Em­rit and Navin Stew­art will play in group four.The seed­ed play­ers are Smith (one), Pol­lard (two), Sim­mons (three) and Barn­well (four). The top play­er in each group will ad­vance to the semi­fi­nal stage.

At a press con­fer­ence held yes­ter­day at the Nor­mandie Ho­tel, St Anns, the or­gan­is­ers said a Smith-Pol­lard fi­nal is a pos­si­bil­i­ty as they are on op­po­site sides of the draw. Sec­re­tary of the Sin­glewick­et foun­da­tion Forbes Per­saud said they were hop­ing to get Sunil Nar­ine to play, but the spin­ner has an in­jury. Per­saud stat­ed: "Sunil Nar­ine, who played with us last year had to un­der­go an X-Ray yes­ter­day (Mon­day), he has an in­jury to a fin­ger."Many in­cen­tives are up for grabs in­clud­ing prizes for most catch­es by a field­er, most stump­ings, most six­es in an in­nings and most out­stand­ing T&T play­er.So­ca and chut­ney stars will en­ter­tain the spec­ta­tors, who are al­lowed to walk with cool­ers. The ad­mis­sion fee is $60.