LOCAL CRICKET ROUND-UP
April 2nd 2009

T&TCB cops 7th First Citizens award

The T&T Cricket Board (T&TCB) reigned supreme among the National Sporting Organisations at the 2008 First Citizens Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Awards ceremony held at Queen’s Hall on March 25.

The T&TCB copped the Jeffrey Stollmeyer Award for being the best organised sporting organisation for 2008.

Last year, the T&TCB enjoyed tremendous success on the field of play with the national senior and youth teams emerging champions in several regional tournaments.

At the senior level, T&T easily copped the Stanford Twenty20 title by whipping Jamaica in the final, and English County champion Middlesex in the Stanford Super Series.

In the regional 50-over per side competition held in Guyana, T&T came out on top, defeating Barbados in the final, but had to settle for the runner-up spot in the four-day regional series behind arch rivals Jamaica.

At the Under 19 level, T&T led by Adrian Barath, came out on top by winning the limited overs competition.

The Under-17s retained the Sir Gary Sobers International Schools title playing unbeaten in that tournament in Barbados.

The youngsters also won the first ever regional U-17 tournament, hosted and financed by the T&TCB.

T&TCB implemented a series of development programmes during the year: the Guardian Life Under-10 Primary Schools Development Programme, the Easter Bunny Coaching Camps for players from five to 13 years old, the Star Programme for Form One students, the PowerGen Coaching Programme for the 13 to 15 age group, the High Performance Centres for Under- 17 players and the Cricket Academy for Under-23 cricketers.

The T&TCB also sent several teams on developmental tours throughout the Caribbean, among them being the national primary schools boys and girls teams to Guyana and the Under-14 and Under- 16 teams to Antigua. The T&TCB also hosted the English Schools Cricket Association West Region Under-15 team for a series of matches against local youth teams.

Chief Executive Officer and General Secretary of the T&TCB Forbes Persaud said that he and members of his board were delighted and ecstatic over the award.

“We are indeed very ecstatic and delighted to be the recipient of this prestigious award. This is the second time in three years since our administration came into office that we have won this title and I am indeed very proud of our success,” Persaud stated.

Teachers cricket this weekend in St Vincent

The Caribbean Union of Teachers (CUT) Biennial Les Harris Cricket Limited Over Tournament will take place this weekend in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Barbados is the defending champion.

The limited over competition will be hosted by the St. Vincent & the Grenadines Teachers Union (SVGTU) and takes place between from tomorrow (Fri) to April 10. It has attracted teams from various Caribbean countries, including Barbados, St Lucia, Jamaica and T&T and the host. The 35-over tournament is organised on a round robin basis and the winner determined on points.

The T&T Unified Teachers' Association (TTUTA) will be represented in the tournament for the fourth time.

The T&T side comprises a host of top local players, including present captain of PowerGen Sports and current national cricketer, Samuel Badree and Premiership League players Dary Balgobin and Keshava Ramphal. All players selected play in various cricketing competitions here in T&T and come from Cedros in the deep south to Matura in the East as well as Central and South Trinidad.

T&T: Keshava Ramphal (captain) (Couva Government) Dary Balgobin (v-captain) (Presentation College, Chaguanas), Samuel Badree (Barrackpore Secondary) Chrysostom Lockhart (wkpr) (San Souci R.C.), Rajendra Dilraj (Couva Government), Rohan David ( South East Port of Spain) , Avenesh Seetaram (Siparia Hindu), Lester Hanooman (Matura High), Franklin Hansraj(Siparia Road Presbyterian), Nigel Lakhan (San Francique Hindu), Dehaan Seeram, (Cedros Government Primary), Neil Mongru (Siparia Road K.P.A.), Ravi Ramgoolam (St. Benedicts College), Ramsahai Ramasar (Siparia Secondary).

Reserve :Teddy Ramhit(Aranguez Secondary).
Manager: Indra Ramsingh-Geoffroy.
Coach: Kumar Rampat.
Assistant Coach/Physio: Stephanie Power.
Assistant Manager/Welfare: Franklyn Seegobin.

T&TEC central wins SIS final

T&TEC (Central) is the inaugural winner of the Super Industrial Services Super 10 Industrial Cricket League. The final between T&TEC and IPSL Caribbean Nitrogen Company was played last Sunday in brilliant sunshine, before a large crowd in a very festive atmosphere at Plipdeco Sports ground, Point Lisas.

CNC won the toss and invited T&TEC to have first strike. The “Electricity Boys” rattled up 110 for one from their 10 overs with Chris Guevara getting a well played 31 and at the close of the innings Kent Subero had 28 not out and skipper Devindra Kangal 14 not out.

In its reply, CNC struggled against the tight bowling of T & TEC. It lost wickets regularly, not being able to put together any partnership on which to build the run chase. At the end of its allotted 10 overs, CNC reached 72 for eight, giving T & TEC victory by 38 runs and in the process taking home $10,000, the champion trophy and 17 medals.

CNC, as runner up, took home $6,000, the second place trophy and 17 medals.

Honour Roll:

Losing semi – finalists --- PowerGen - $2,000.: Ipsl Methanol -$2,000.

Summarised Scores

T & TEC (central110/1 (10 overs) (Chris Guevara 31, Kent Subero 28 n.o., Devindra Kangal 14 n. o.) v Caribbean Nitrogen Company 72/8 (10 ) (Marlon Partapsingh 24, Chris Guevara 2-9, Kent Subero 2-2, Devindra Kangal 1-5.)

Man of the Match (final) -- Kent Subero ( trophy and $500. )
Most Valuable Player (tournament) -- Devindra Kangal (trophy and $1,000.)

Umpires in final -- Ganga Bhagwandeen & Udeo Lalloo.

TML cricket rolls into second round of action

After two months of competitive and exciting cricket, the TML / R. Khan Trading and Eniaths Printing Night Windball Cricket Competition rolls into the second round (knockout) of matches this weekend.

Defending champion, Nur-E-Islam Jamaat of San Juan and Charlieville Jamaat were the only unbeaten teams in the first round.

All 24 teams will still have a chance to compete for a trophy. The first four teams from each group advance into the round of 16 and the fifth and sixth place teams vie for the best of the rest trophy.

Matches continue every Friday and Saturday night from 6.30 until the finals and presentation ceremony carded for Saturday, April 18th (Summit Saturday).

All games are played under lights at the TML Headquarters, Eastern Main Road, St. Joseph. Door prizes are given out to spectators nightly.

Munroe Road, Queen’s Park in U-23 final

Queen’s Park Cricket Club and Munroe Road Sports will meet in the T&TCB Under-23 final on a date to be announced.

The ‘Parkites’ defeated PowerGen Sports by four wickets in a semi-final encounter at the St Mary’s Ground in St Clair, while Munroe Road recorded a minor upset when it whipped archrivals Invaders Sports by four wickets at the Felicity Grounds in Central Trinidad.

Summarised Scores:

AT FELICITY: Invaders Sports 121 (35.1 overs) (Marc Brown 40) v Munroe Road Sports 122-6 (33). M Road won by 4 wkts.

AT CIC: PowerGen Sports 149 all out (Garrette Boodhai 3-34, Sashtri Samaroo 3-29) v Queen’s Park 151-6 (Darron Cruikshank 34). Q Park won by 4 wkts.

Sookdeosingh hits another century

Nicholas Sookdeosingh continued his rich vein of form in the local domestic competitions, when he lashed a brilliant 115 to guide PowerGen Sports to first innings points against Clico Preysal Sports in the third round of the Eastern Credit Union Premiership Cricket League last weekend.

Sookdeosingh blasted 10 fours and four sixes, as PowerGen chasing Preysal’s first innings total of 205, reached 359 for seven declared. He received good support from T&T U-19 opening batsman Evin Lewis, who made a dashing 96 with eight fours and two sixes.

Recording the only outright win in the round was Munroe Road Sports which defeated Moosai’s Sports by five wickets at Cunupia.

Summarised Scores:

FC Clarke Road 212 & 150-4 dec. (Mahadeo Moonasar 42, Homchand Pooran 36) v Ceramic Merry Boys Sports 146 (Franklyn Rouse 47, Kyron Lynch 20, Homchand Pooran 5-32, Mukesh Persad 3-51). C Road won on first innings.

Moosai’s Sports 164 & 125 (Miguel Nedd 21, Darry Balgobin 3-21, Kapil Harry 2-25) v Munroe Road Sports 193 & 97-5 (Vishal Arjune 47, Saesnarine Sookdeo 25). M Road won by 5 wkts.

Central Sports 176 & 272-5 (Deon Bennett 100 not out, Gary Mathurin 70, Ericson Nedd 56) v W Connection Wanderers 116 (Nicholas Ramjass 33, Mahendra Nagamootoo 4-32, Gary Mathurin 3-37). C Sports won on first innings.

Clico Preysal Sports 205 v PowerGen Sports 359-7 dec. (Nicholas Sookdeosingh 115, Evin Lewis 96, Rishi Bachan 50, Ryan Hurley 4-112, Yannic Cariah 2-83). P/Gen won on first innings.

QPCC v Alescon Comets. DNP (ground unfit).