In-form batsman John Campbell. - file

Leaders and title-favourites Jamaica are again expected to stick with the same starting 11, which recorded convincing six and five wicket victories over the Leeward and Windward Islands, respectively, in their last two TCL Group WICB U-19 one-day matches when they face title-outsiders Guyana at Melbourne Oval today.

The team will again be led by St Elizabeth Technical's Paul Palmer Jr, who at the start of the season was asked to fill the captaincy gap left vacant by the summoning of regular captain, Holmwood Technical's Andre Creary, for the first Test against Bangladesh. Creary returned home after the Test but he picked up a groin injury and has been out of action since the start of the under-19 tourney.

The team is again expected to sport six specialist batsmen, two spin-bowling all-rounders, and two specialist fast bowlers for today's match.

The Jamaicans, who are eyeing the coveted three-day and one-day double, lead the six-team round-robin championship on maximum 12 points, four more than traditional rivals Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago. Guyana and the Leewards four points each and the Windwards, who are yet to record a point, round off the points standings.

Barbados will play the Leewards at Kensington Park, and Trinidad and Tobago will do battle with the Windwards at Sabina Park in what is the competition's fourth and penultimate round of games.

"We are not anticipating much changes at this time. The team is playing attractive cricket and the hope is that we can continue in a similar vein as we seek to take the double," said Jamaica's coach, Andre Coley, following the Windward's match at Up Park Camp on Sunday. Jamaica won by five wickets.

In both the Leewards and Windwards matches, in-form Tacky High opener, John Campbell, who is the one-day championship's leading run-getter thus far, and Manchester High's Brian Clarke, who is the team's third-highest run-scorer this season, opened the batting.

Half-century

They were then followed by the team's second-highest run-scorer, Palmer Jr and Excelsior High's Ramon Senior, who only played one match in the three-dayers, but scored a welcomed half-century in the one-day opener against Trinidad, batted at number four, while coming at number five was Charlemont High batsman and stand-in wicketkeeper, Kemar Marshall.

Holmwood Technical off-spinning all-rounder, Jermaine Blackwood, then came at six, while coming in at number seven was Jamaica's most outstanding player in the three-day championship, Kingston College leg-spinning all-rounder, Akeem Dewar.

St Jago batsman, Garth Garvey, STETHS fast-bowler Nicholson Gordon, Meadowbrook High fast bowler, Jermaine Cole, and Moneague College left-arm spinner, Patrick Harty, who were not called upon to bat in the matches, rounded off the lower order.