Guyana, the reigning regional Red Stripe Bowl limited overs champions, lost to Barbados and Jamaica in their first two games and coach Albert Smith says the batting is letting them down.

“It’s a very disappointing performance in both of the games. When I look at the performances of the batsmen it does not augur well for the future matches,” Smith said following the team’s three-day loss to Jamaica on Sunday.

“The batsmen show no patience really,” he added.

The Guyanese, without a regional four-day title since they shared the 1998 President’s Cup with the Leeward Islands, are bottom of the table without a point entering the third round.

“We’ll have to sit down and have some more serious talks, some serious practice and hope they can concentrate more in the middle when they get into the other games,” Smith said.

In their opening match against Barbados at Kensington Oval, Krishna Arjune (97) and Sewnarine Chattergoon (85) rallied them to a strong second innings 321, but their dismal first innings 108 was too big a setback from which to recover and they lost by 10 wickets.

Against Jamaica at Sabina Park last weekend, they posted weak totals of 222 and 150 and lost by six wickets.