Guyana Harpy Ea­gles cap­tain, Tevin Im­lach be­lieves that the en­vi­ron­ment pro­vid­ed by the Guyana Crick­et Board (GCB) is large­ly re­spon­si­ble for the team’s suc­cess at the re­gion­al lev­el.

The Harpy Ea­gles cap­tured their third con­sec­u­tive West In­dies Cham­pi­onship ti­tle on Sat­ur­day af­ter play­ing to a draw against the Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force at the Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain.

The de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons played un­beat­en through­out the tour­na­ment, win­ning four of their sev­en games, draw­ing two, while one end­ed in a no-re­sult.

Speak­ing to re­porters af­ter his side was crowned cham­pi­ons, Im­lach said play­ers were giv­en the best pos­si­ble en­vi­ron­ment to suc­ceed.

“I would prob­a­bly say prepa­ra­tion and the en­vi­ron­ment the staff and every­one cre­ates, the Guyana Crick­et Board and every­body com­ing on board to as­sist this team.

“Back home we had quite a few coach­es be­ing among the team and help­ing out in dif­fer­ent ways, so I think cre­at­ing that en­vi­ron­ment where play­ers are com­fort­able, and they can learn, it al­ways as­sists when it comes to win­ning, so that has been very in­stru­men­tal in this Guyana team win­ning year af­ter year,” Im­lach point­ed out.

Im­lach, who al­so cap­tained the team to vic­to­ry in 2024, said he was pleased with the team’s per­for­mance through­out the com­pe­ti­tion.

He said dif­fer­ent play­ers stepped up when re­quired, and the im­prove­ment in their play was ev­i­dent.

“Ob­vi­ous­ly I’m very ex­cit­ed, ex­cit­ed to see what the guys did…and to see the lev­el of im­prove­ment from the team,

“A lot of the guys would have had their best year such as Kevlon An­der­son, [Ronal­do] Al­imo­hamed, so it was amaz­ing to see some of the guys grow­ing from last year to now, it’s what you want to see in West In­dies crick­et at this lev­el,” Im­lach said.

“In this team, dif­fer­ent play­ers stepped up at dif­fer­ent times. We would have had so many good per­for­mances through­out, so it was amaz­ing to see what every­body would have done. Every­body would have con­tributed in some way, so I wouldn’t want to sin­gle out any par­tic­u­lar per­son.

“It’s my sec­ond one as cap­tain and to win a 4-day tour­na­ment is not an easy job. It’s four days of hard crick­et and we’re play­ing mul­ti­ple games, so it’s ac­tu­al­ly very dif­fi­cult so to ac­tu­al­ly come out and win this one again, back-to-back, it feels spe­cial,” he added.

CMC