TT women open against Guyana

ST GEORGE’S: Reigning league champions St Lucia will open against North America when the 2003 West Indies Women’s Cricket Champion-ship starts today.

The St Lucians have five players in their squad that represented the West Indies in a six-match series against Sri Lanka in March, including Dominican Doris Francis, who now resides in St. Lucia. Team captain Verena Felicien, Phillipa Thomas, Glenicia James and Nadine George are the others from the West Indies series in March, in the strong St Lucia squad. West Indies Under-23 pick Roylene Cooper and national Under-23 players Rudi Paul and Maria David are newcomers in the squad to face the mixed North Americans, Canadian and United States players combined, at La Saggesse today. In the other first round matches, Trinidad and Tobago, the defending knockout champions, play Guyana at River Sallee, and Jamaica meet St Vincent and the Grenadines at Victoria Park.