Vin­ode Mam­chan

Per­sis­tent rain on Sat­ur­dayevening forced the aban­don­ment ofthe sec­ond T20 crick­et clash be­tweenT&T and Ja­maica at the Cen­tral

Broward Re­gion­al Park in Fort Laud­erdale,USA.T&T won the two-match se­riesafter beat­ing the Ja­maicans by 67 run­sin the first game on Fri­day.The se­ries was or­gan­ised to cel­e­bratethe 50th An­niver­sary of In­de­pen­dence­of both coun­tries 1-0.

The rain sub­sided around 7pm, but­the light­ning in­di­ca­tors on the groundwere flash­ing and ac­cord­ing to lawhere in Fort Laud­erdale, no out­door­sport­ing ac­tiv­i­ty can oc­cur un­der such­con­di­tions.At 8pm the um­pires called off thegame, hand­ing T&T the se­ries.Pri­or to the game be­ing called off,man­ag­er of the team Omar Khan­called a team meet­ing in­form­ing the­p­lay­ers of Keshorn Wal­cott's achieve­mentof win­ning gold in the jave­lin­event at the 2012 Olympics in Lon­don,and there was rap­tu­ous ap­plause fromthe play­ers.

Ac­cord­ing to Khan they had planned­to go out and beat Ja­maica in cel­e­bra­tionif the game was played.Nev­er­the­less, na­tion­al cap­tain

De­nesh Ramdin said the trip was­worth it, and the play­ers were able to­get in some much need­ed prac­tice."The guys were able to work to­geth­erand this was great in­deed. They aregelling nice­ly, and as we look to find­the right com­bi­na­tion for the Cham­pi­ons

League, tour­na­ments like the­seare im­por­tant."

Ramdin said it was un­for­tu­nate theweath­er robbed the team of the last­match. "We re­al­ly want­ed to per­form­for the fans up here but we have no­con­trol of the el­e­ments and just have­to ac­cept it."Chair­man of the na­tion­al se­lec­tion­com­mit­tee, Dud­nath Ramkessoon,said it was a good op­por­tu­ni­ty for­some of the young play­ers to maketheir claim for se­lec­tion and al­thoughthe sec­ond game was washed out,there are still a num­ber of matchesto come be­fore they set­tle on the final­team.

"We still have a num­ber of gamescom­ing up back at home and in Bar­ba­dos,so we will get to see a lot fromthe pool of play­ers be­fore mak­ing our fi­nal choic­es."We are how­ev­er un­able to makethe pro­posed trip to St Lu­cia to playa­gainst the Wind­ward Is­lands but wewill have some­thing in place to keepthe play­ers busy dur­ing that time