{"id":26282,"date":"2025-02-08T22:50:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T22:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26282"},"modified":"2025-02-08T22:50:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T22:50:49","slug":"guyana-harpy-eagles-gear-up-for-cwi-regional-four-day-title-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/guyana-harpy-eagles-gear-up-for-cwi-regional-four-day-title-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana Harpy Eagles Gear Up for CWI Regional Four-Day Title Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Tyriq Walters | January 10, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Guyana Harpy Eagles have officially begun their in-game preparations to defend their Cricket West Indies (CWI) Regional Four-Day title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On day one of their four-day practice match, the team took to the field under the keen eye of Head Coach Ryan Hercules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coach Hercules emphasized the significance of the practice match, especially with senior players away on West Indies duties in Pakistan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He expressed that this created valuable opportunities for other players to showcase their skills, hoping they would seize the chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;There is a few players that will be given opportunities. We hope that those who get the opportunity take it,&#8221;<\/em> Hercules said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With consecutive titles under their belt, the Guyanese coach also spoke about his excitement for the 2025 season, acknowledging the challenges ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s pretty exciting. Some good competition ahead. It&#8217;s a good feeling,&#8221;<\/em> Hercules added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the field, day one of the practice match saw notable performances from Kevlon Anderson and Thaddeus Lovell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anderson scored 69, while Lovell impressed with the ball, taking 5 wickets for 45 runs in 12.3 overs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the close of play, Kemol Savory&#8217;s XI was 26-1 in reply to Tagenarine Chanderpaul\u2019s impressive 230 all out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anderson\u2019s patient knock of 69 came off 147 balls, with 10 boundaries, while Jonathan Van Lange finished unbeaten on 41 from 48 balls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other notable starts came from Shamar Yearwood (30), Tagenarine Chanderpaul (24), and Ushardeva Balgobin (20), though none were able to convert into big scores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ashmead Nedd (2-22) and Isai Thorne (2-44) also featured with the ball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second practice match will take place at the National Stadium starting on January 15. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Harpy Eagles continue to fine-tune their squad as they prepare for the upcoming CWI Regional Tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tyriq Walters | January 10, 2025 The Guyana Harpy Eagles have officially begun their in-game preparations to defend their Cricket West Indies (CWI) Regional Four-Day title. On day one&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26283,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26282\/revisions\/26283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}