Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force en­ters the fi­nal round of the Crick­et West In­dies Four-Day Cham­pi­onships against the Guyana Harpy Ea­gles start­ing Wednes­day at the Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain.

The Red Force en­tered last week’s match against Ja­maica 1.6 points be­hind the Harpy Ea­gles, but a 223-run loss to the fifth-placed Ja­maicans pushed them 6.2 points be­hind the South Amer­i­can na­tion.

For­tu­nate­ly for the Red Force, Guyana them­selves drew with the Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes, which leaves the fi­nal round match poised as a vir­tu­al fi­nal of the tour­na­ment.

The Red Force coach, Rayad Em­rit, ex­pressed the dis­ap­point­ment of miss­ing the op­por­tu­ni­ty to go top of the stand­ings ahead of the fi­nal round.

“Ob­vi­ous­ly, it’s dis­ap­point­ing, play­ing at home and los­ing to Ja­maica,” Em­rit said. “I think the guys are very dis­ap­point­ed. But we still have an op­por­tu­ni­ty to sal­vage the tro­phy. We al­ways want to do well, es­pe­cial­ly play­ing at home. We have to do well in this game against Guyana. Hope­ful­ly, we can bounce back from this as quick­ly as pos­si­ble.”

The for­mer West In­dies and Red Force all-rounder main­tained the play­ers are still in an up­beat mood.

“I think the mood in the camp is still very good. We try to put that be­hind us as quick­ly as pos­si­ble. We don’t want to de­vel­op any neg­a­tives too much and just move for­ward.”

De­spite the dis­ap­point­ing loss that pushed the Red Force 6.2 points be­hind the fi­nal op­po­nents they will face from Wednes­day, Em­rit ex­tract­ed some of the pos­i­tives the team can learn from.

“The pos­i­tives are the cap­tain (Joshua Da Sil­va) got a re­al­ly, re­al­ly good fin­ish. He con­tin­ued to do well. Shan­non (Gabriel) came back and bowled ex­treme­ly well; he was a bit un­lucky; he did not get any wick­ets. But I think he bowled re­al­ly, re­al­ly well. Joshua James bowled well. Khary, again, con­tin­ued to do well. I think there are still pos­i­tives.”

While Em­rit did not want to dwell on the neg­a­tives, he did point out that the team’s field­ing could im­prove.

“Our catch­ing, in par­tic­u­lar, could im­prove. If we can get those things right, I think we still have the fight in our team and the be­lief to do well.”

Leg spin­ner Yan­nic Cari­ah is in­jured and will be side­lined for six weeks and is re­placed by Clarke Road’s Vikash Mo­han.