The lead­er­ship qual­i­ties of De­nesh Ramdin will play a cru­cial role if Trinidad and To­ba­go are to fol­low up on their re­gion­al T20 suc­cess with sim­i­lar re­sults in the up­com­ing West In­dies Crick­et Board's four-day tour­na­ment.

Omar Khan, T&T's most suc­cess­ful na­tion­al team man­ag­er said on Tues­day that the team will be play­ing with a new com­mit­ment and ob­jec­tive un­der wick­et­keep­er Ramdin."The lead­er­ship of Ramdin has made a dif­fer­ence in him im­press­ing up­on the play­ers that our T20 dom­i­nance is just one as­pect of it but if you want to move on as a true pro­fes­sion­al crick­eter the ul­ti­mate aim is to play Test crick­et and in or­der to do that you have to play the four-day game well," said Khan.

To achieve this Khan said the team ad­min­is­tra­tion has set new ob­jec­tives and goals for the na­tion­al crick­eters to as­sist with their de­vel­op­ment and un­der­stand­ing that the R4DT is the step­ping stone to a ca­reer in the top flight."The crick­eters have bought in­to that and we see it as one of the ma­jor fac­tors in terms of us try­ing to win the four-day tour­na­ment," said Khan.

He said key to the suc­cess of the T&T team in the R4DT is the abil­i­ty of the bats­men to show pa­tience, flex­i­bil­i­ty, prop­er shot se­lec­tion and ad­her­ence to line and length in the bowl­ing," said Khan.The well-re­spect­ed man­ag­er said na­tion­al team coach David Williams has been do­ing an ex­cep­tion­al job along with his as­sis­tant Kelvin Williams."David has been do­ing a fan­tas­tic job in help­ing them un­der­stand their goals and ob­jec­tives," said Khan.

Khan said the younger play­ers will al­so have a chance to ad­dress the na­tion­al se­lec­tors head­ed by for­mer na­tion­al play­er Alec Burns while Dud­nath Ramkessoon re­cov­ers from ill­ness.He said there is a lot of crick­et to be played this sea­son lead­ing up to the Cham­pi­ons League T20 in In­dia and many will hope to make a claim for na­tion­al se­lec­tion in the three for­mats of the game.

"We have the play­ers and the strength on the bench to do well and win the tour­na­ment . We have a num­ber of young play­ers who want to stand up and say we are ready to take our place in the na­tion­al team," said Khan.