Senior (left) and Lambert (right).

If last weekend's opening round of the national Red Stripe Twenty20 Championship is anything to go by, this weekend's second round of matches should be equally exciting with the seeded teams bowing into action at Chedwin Park in St Catherine and St Ann Bauxite Sports, formerly Kaiser.

In the feature match of the round, which is the second of five in the monthlong competition, seeded team St Catherine Saints will bow into action against Wayne Gayle's Lucas Eagles at 2 p.m. at Chedwin Park, while in the seeded Kingston Tigers will face-off with Kensington Dragons at 10 a.m.

Elsewhere, the first matchup of the St Ann Bauxite double-header will see seeded team and 2009 Super League champions, Manchester Lions, going up against St Catherine Cricket Association Crusaders at 10 a.m., while at 2 p.m., 2008 SDC Twenty20 champions and seeded team, South Stars Flames, will tackle G.C. Foster College Crocodiles.

"Unfortunately, we won't have Chris Gayle again as while he is in the island he is unavailable. But we have a job to do and would like to, like what we did last game, play good cricket," said Lucas captain Wayne Gayle, brother of Chris.

a strong side

"We know St Catherine is a strong side but this is Twenty20 cricket and with this format anything can happen," he added.

Lucas will again look to Wayne, national Under-19 batsman Ramon Senior and wicketkeeper-batsman Junior McKenzie for inspiration, while for St Catherine, much will be expected of captain Tamar Lambert, the hard-hitting Danza Hyatt and spinners Odean Brown and Bevan Brown.

"In Twenty20 cricket, you cannot underrate anybody. One bad over or one dropped catch can change a game. So we have to be on our 'A' game," said St Catherine Saints' coach, Ephraim McLeod.

In the Kingston Tigers/Kensington game, the former will be looking for outstanding performances from Simon Jackson and West Indies middle-order batsman Brendan Nash, while for Kensington, who scored a convincing five-wicket win over Portland Alligators last week, much will be expected of Horace Miller and Maurice Kepple.

"I am not looking forward to it with any glee at all as in Twenty20 any match can go anyway. But we have a decent 11 that we think can compete and are optimistic," said Kingston's coach, Terrence Corke.