Bottom of the table Guyana will oppose second place Trinidad in a fifth round match of the Carib Beer regional first-class cricket competition.
The two teams will clash at the Albion Community Development Centre ground from 10am this morning, each team seeking a win for entirely different reasons.
With three outright defeats and a no-result, the picture is a most unflattering one for the Neil Mc Garrell-led Guyana side and nothing but an outright win will help appease the die-hard Guyanese cricket supporters.
Trinidad's intention is clear according to manager Omar Khan. Their goal is to remain winning or keep as close as possible to front-runners Barbados so as to set up a grand finale in the final round of the competition where a win will see them dethroning the champions.
The Guyanese have been having a lean season with bat and ball. None of the batsmen have yet recorded a three-figure score although Krishna Arjune batting at number three scored 97 in the second innings of the team's first game against Barbados.
Arjune apart, Sewnarine Chattergoon has been the most consistent batsman with two half centuries and some other useful scores.
Reon `Gummy' Griffith's 6-41 against the Windward Islands is the best performance by a Guyanese bowler so far this season while Mc Garrell and Lennox Cush have both grabbed four-wicket hauls.
But Guyana's problem does not lie in individual performances. The indiscipline that affected them against the Windward Islands in their third-round fixture is what they will need to put firmly behind them and produce a concerted team effort against a team that has vowed to play hard cricket with the stated intention of an outright win.
Outright losses to Barbados, Jamaica and the Windward Islands saw Guyana off to its worst start in years.
Even in the game against the Leeward Islands at the Enmore Community Development Centre ground in the fourth round the Guyana team were in danger of surrendering first-innings points before a dogged rearguard effort helped prevent the Leewards from dismissing the team and claiming first innings points with Guyana ending on 270-9 replying to the Leewards' 350 all out.
An entire day's play (Day Three) was lost to rain.
Barring no further rain today, Guyana will have their work cut out against a Trinidad side boosted by the return of West Indies batsman Daren Ganga.
Ganga, was a member of the West Indies team in the recently concluded Test series against South Africa.
But he missed the regional fourth round encounter against the Windward Islands at Queen's Park Oval, where T&T defeated the visitors by 81-runs.
The right-handed batsman has taken the place of young batsman Kenton Thompson, who failed in his two matches against West Indies-B and Kenya.
Ganga is expected to spearhead the batting with support to come from skipper Imran Jan, Dwayne Bravo, Shazam Babwah and Ganga's younger brother Sherwin.
The Trinidad pace attack will comprise former West Indies pacer Marlon Black, Theodore Modeste and Reyad Emrit.
Off-spinner Rodney Sooklall and mystery-spinner Amit Jaggernauth will take care of the spin duties.
Guyana will look to Chattergoon, Arjune, vice-captain Travis Dowlin, Narsingh Deonarine, Damodar Daesrath and teenager Leon Johnson to post a sizeable score which will give the bowlers Griffith, Crandon, Mc Garrell and Mohammed some leeway to strut their stuff.
Guyana squad - Neil Mc Garrell (captain), Sewnarine Chattergoon, Krishna Arjune, Travis Dowlin, Narsingh Deonarine, Damodar Daesrath, Leon Johnson, Zaheer Mohammed, Vishal Nagamootoo, Reon Griffith and Esaun Crandon.