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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Williams says T&T positive at CLT20

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Coach of the T&T crick­et team David Williams says the fo­cus is to get in­to the main draw of the Cham­pi­ons League T20 se­ries and his side is full of con­fi­dence go­ing in­to the games.

Williams made the com­ments yes­ter­day, dur­ing his team's press con­fer­ence in Jo­han­nes­burg. Be­tween to­mor­row and Thurs­day, six teams will play six match­es at two dif­fer­ent venues on South Africa's High­veld. At the end, the top two teams will play in the Cham­pi­ons League T20.

T&T will start its cam­paign against York­shire at Cen­tu­ri­on to­mor­row and fol­low up against Sri Lan­ka's Uva Next at Jo­han­nes­burg. They need to win both match­es to en­sure qual­i­fi­ca­tion to the main T&T ar­rived in South Africa on Sat­ur­day un­der a cloud of con­tro­ver­sy, with some play­ers threat­en­ing to with­hold their ser­vices be­cause of a mon­ey dis­pute with the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB), but Williams steered clear of this.

"We're not aware of any­thing, as far as we are con­cerned, we're all in South Africa," he said.

Five play­ers from the vic­to­ri­ous West In­dies team, which won the T20 World Cup yes­ter­day, are ex­cpect­ed in Sri Lan­ka to­day. They are skip­per De­nesh Ramdin, Samuel Badree, Lendl Sim­mons, Ravi Ram­paul and Dar­ren Bra­vo.

The play­ers are seek­ing an in­creased pay pack­age af­ter learn­ing that the T&TCB has re­ceived US$450,000 in trans­fer fees for IPL play­ers Sunil Nar­ine, Ke­iron Pol­lard and Dwayne Bra­vo, who will not play for this coun­try in South Africa.

Quizzed as to the pos­si­bil­i­ty of the play­ers strik­ing while in South Africa, ex­ec­u­tive mem­ber of the TTCB, Patrick Ram­per­sad said:"We have a very cor­dial re­la­tion­ship with WIPA and I know that they are al­so look­ing at the big­ger pic­ture and the na­tion's rep­u­ta­tion. I am con­fi­dent no such thing would hap­pen."

Mean­while, Williams said yes­ter­day prepa­ra­tions were go­ing well. "We're in good stead, we've played a lot of T20 crick­et in the lead up to this and the boys are ready.

"Our play­ers are very pro­fes­sion­al and they have been work­ing hard. More im­por­tant­ly they all know their roles and this is key in us putting it to­geth­er."


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