Trinidad and To­ba­go Un­der-15 crick­eters go in­to the open­ing match of the Crick­et West In­dies Ris­ing Stars Cham­pi­onships against Guyana start­ing Tues­day morn­ing at the Sir Vi­vian Richards Sta­di­um, North Sound, An­tigua.

The Kaiden Pol­lard-led team will at­tempt to re­claim the ti­tle the Bren­dan Boodoo’s team won in 2023, go­ing un­beat­en in the process.

Head coach Nasir Mo­hammed said the play­ers, who ar­rived in An­tigua on Sun­day are look­ing for­ward to the chal­lenge ahead.

“Ac­tu­al­ly, they can’t wait for to­mor­row be­cause they’re kind of ea­ger to get this tour­na­ment start­ed,” Mo­hammed said.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s ri­val­ry with Guyana and Bar­ba­dos seems to fil­ter down to the U-15s as they are fo­cused on two op­po­nents.

“They’re re­al­ly pumped over Guyana and Bar­ba­dos right now,” Mo­hammed said. “That’s the two teams that we have to get over the line with be­cause, the oth­er teams, they (T&T) are kind of con­fi­dent they can beat them. But the Guyana and the Bar­ba­dos teams has al­ways been a chal­lenge for us over the years. So, they’re re­al­ly look­ing for­ward to those two games this year.”

Mo­hammed al­so heaped prais­es on cap­tain Pol­lard, who is fol­low­ing in the foot­steps of his fa­ther, for­mer West In­dies and T&T cap­tain Kieron Pol­lard.

“He’s ac­tu­al­ly got the guys here ba­si­cal­ly un­der con­trol. At the ho­tel here, there’s not re­al­ly much work to do as far as he’s con­cerned. He’s tak­ing the lead­er­ship role pret­ty good.”

First ball at North Sound is 9.30 am.

T&T Un­der 15 con­tin­gent

Team: Kaiden Pol­lard (c), Zion Phillip (vc), Dy­lan Lee Chow, Eli­jah Ash­ton, Davis Guer­ra, Larell Guisep­pi, San­jiv Bachu, Jor­dan Julien, Gio­van­ni McK­night, Rylee Gan­goo, Joshua Joseph, Ethan Ram­cha­ran, Samuel Stew­art and Jaden Sadaphal.

Re­serves: Bran­don Ram­doo, Samir Boodoo and Cur­tis Nanan.

Tech­ni­cal staff: Nasir Mo­hammed (coach), Kelvin Mo­hammed (man­ag­er)