West Indies will today seek their second win over Canada in three days as the two teams do battle in a One-Day International at Sabina Park in the Supreme Ventures Sports Betting (SVBS) Jamaica Cricket Festival.

Both teams met in a Twenty20 game on April 10 th with the regional team coming out comfortable 49-run winners at the Trelawny Multi-purpose Stadium. In that game Canada were bundled out for 81 within 20 overs, chasing 131 for victory.

Captain and wicketkeeper batsman Ashish Bagai (32) and Trevin Bastiampillai (24) were the only two players to reach double figures as the part-time spin of Narsingh Deonarine (four for 14) and pacer Lionel Baker (two for nine) made light work of Canada’s batting line-up.

In fact, Canada have hardly fared any better in their other two matches in the festival as they lost by four wickets to Jamaica in a 50-over game on April 8, and then were thumped by 63 runs by the same team in a Twenty20 contest on April 11.

During those games it was again left to the right handed Bagai to stroke half-centuries to prevent further embarrassment to the Canadian team.

Young left-arm spinner Parth Desai has done well with the ball so far and the visiting team will be hoping his good form holds up if they are to have a chance of restricting the West Indies.

The West Indies batsmen have had troubles of their own so far in this tournament and have failed to get pass 150 in their two T20 games. In- form left hander Deonarine will be relied upon to score the runs along with the experienced pair of Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ramnaresh Sarwan. Young batsmen Darren Bravo and Andre Fletcher will also be seeking to make their mark at this level if given another chance.

Fans will also be keen on the possibility of West Indies fast bowler Jerome Taylor getting his first game of the festival. The paceman, just recovering from a back injury, which curtailed his Test tour of Australia late last year, will no doubt be clooking to resume competitive action.

So far the likes of Baker, Ravi Rampaul, David Bernard Jr and Darren Sammy have all done reasonably well in his absence against the relatively modest batting line-ups of Canada and Ireland.

Ireland and West Indies are using this tournament to prepare for the Twenty20 World Cup to be held in the Caribbean later this month where both teams, along with England will face-off in group D.