Vin­ode Mam­chan

A dis­ap­point­ed T&T crick­et team will leave In­dia to­day mi­nus pac­er Ravi Ram­paul, bats­men Adri­an Barath, Lendl Sim­mons, Dar­ren Bra­vo and wick­et­keep­er De­nesh Ramdin who are off to Bangladesh to join the rest of the West In­dies team on tour there. Team man­ag­er Omar Khan said his play­ers left won­der­ful mem­o­ries be­hind in In­dia. T&T played six match­es and won four. Khan said he could not fault the play­ers for their ef­fort. "We fought hard and the guys were com­mit­ted to the ef­fort through­out. All the play­ers re­main com­mit­ted and sup­port­ed one an­oth­er. It was a team ef­fort and we are look­ing for the same con­tri­bu­tions as we head to Guyana for the 50 overs tour­na­ment."

Among those cre­at­ing an im­pact were pac­er Ravi Ram­paul, spin­ner Sunil Nar­ine and all rounder Kevon Coop­er, but khan said there were no ap­proach­es to them to join IPL teams. "The three have re­al­ly made quite an im­pres­sion and I know there were IPL scouts at the venues. So far they have not re­ceived any calls but I am sure the teams will ex­press in­ter­est in the trio. "I am sure when the tour­na­ment is over and the teams sit to come up with their com­bi­na­tions for next sea­son, Nar­ine, Coop­er and Ravi could be dis­cussed." Khan not­ed it was every play­er's dream to play in the IPL. "A play­er's shelf life is short, so it is great for a play­er to try and max­imise his earn­ing po­ten­tial and the IPL presents that op­por­tu­ni­ty. Crick­et is their work and they will be look­ing to se­cure their re­spec­tive fu­ture."

Khan added: "There are al­so oth­er T20 leagues around the world that of­fer good op­por­tu­ni­ties and we have seen two of our own in Ke­iron Pol­lard and Dwayne Bra­vo mak­ing use of it. I hope oth­ers can make the grade be­cause in ad­di­tion to mak­ing the mon­ey, they will al­so be able to im­prove their crick­et."