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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Technology to keep T&T cricket ahead

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The Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board (T&TCB) will be plac­ing greater em­pha­sis on the lat­est tech­nol­o­gy avail­able for train­ing and equip­ping the fu­ture gen­er­a­tion of crick­eters on the brink of na­tion­al se­lec­tion to take their place on the in­ter­na­tion­al stage. This rev­o­lu­tion in the way the progress of the young­sters is mon­i­tored in or­der to help them de­vel­op their skill and cor­rect their faults in the for­ma­tive stage of their ca­reers will come about as the T&TCB seeks to strength­en sev­er­al ar­eas of its high­ly suc­cess­ful youth de­vel­op­ment pro­gramme. Pres­i­dent of the T&TCB, Az­im Bas­sarath spoke of the new di­rec­tion at the launch of the BG T&T Na­tion­al Zon­al Youth Crick­et Tour­na­ment staged on Tues­day in the multi­na­tion­al gas com­pa­ny's Hos­pi­tal­i­ty Suite of the Queen's Park Oval in Port-of-Spain.

"Al­ready some of our coach­es have been trained us­ing video footage of play­ers to iden­ti­fy and pos­si­bly cor­rect tech­ni­cal faults and weak­ness­es and as the de­vel­op­ment pro­gramme un­folds for our youth, so too will par­al­lel up­skilling work will be done with our coach­es," said Bas­sarath. Al­so in at­ten­dance at the launch was Krys­ta de Li­ma, Chief of Staff BG Trinidad and To­ba­go; Franklyn Dol­ly of Dol­ly and As­so­ciates; Col­in Bor­de, for­mer na­tion­al se­nior team man­ag­er who now man­ages the West In­dies "A" team and Wen­dell Con­stan­tine, BG TT's Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Man­ag­er. Bas­sarath praised the T&TCB's as­so­ci­a­tion with BG TT which spans 17 years and de­signed to specif­i­cal­ly tar­get the U-13, U-15, U-17 and Un­der-19 age groups. It has reaped great re­wards over the years and the lo­cal crick­et chief out­lined some of the suc­cess­es the part­ner­ship has en­joyed to date.

"All of our present na­tion­al crick­eters have at some time par­tic­i­pat­ed in these age group tour­na­ments. Many have gone on to ex­cel not on­ly in sport but in pro­fes­sions as di­verse as ed­u­ca­tion, med­i­cine, en­gi­neer­ing, in­for­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy and busi­ness man­age­ment," Bas­sarath said. He said some of the grad­u­ates, in­clud­ing Kieron Pol­lard, Daren Bra­vo and Sunil Nar­ine now com­mand some of the high­est salaries in in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et and the T&T play­ers con­tin­ue to at­tract the at­ten­tion and in­ter­est of the biggest clubs in the world. "They are not just won­der­ful crick­eters but per­fect am­bas­sadors of T&T and we are proud of them both on and off the field," said Bas­sarath. He al­so point­ed out that late last year eight mem­bers of the T&T team were se­lect­ed by the West In­dies for a tour of In­dia and last week ten lo­cal crick­eters were draft­ed in a re­gion­al train­ing camp to pre­pare for the up­com­ing home se­ries against Aus­tralia.


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