Brij Paras­nath, re­gion­al com­men­ta­tor and jour­nal­ist, called up­on the T&T Un­der 19 crick­eters to adopt a pos­i­tive at­ti­tude and fight­ing spir­it to bat­tle to the very end un­til suc­cess is achieved.

Speak­ing to the T&T na­tion­al un­der 19 team play­ers af­ter their fi­nal phys­i­cal fit­ness prepa­ra­tion ses­sion at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre, Bal­main, Cou­va on Mon­day af­ter­noon; Paras­nath urged the play­ers "to re­main fo­cussed on what is hap­pen­ing on the field of play and to fight to the very end un­til suc­cess is achieved."

"Every mem­ber must sup­port and cel­e­brate one an­oth­er suc­cess. It is im­por­tant to cel­e­brate each oth­er's mile­stones but al­ways con­cen­trate on the team's goals. Bats­men have to be con­scious of their re­spec­tive roles; even the num­ber ten or num­ber eleven bats­men would some­times be called up­on to bring home the vic­to­ry and must be ready to re­spond to those chal­lenges. They must be­lieve in them­selves that they can get the job done. With that type of at­ti­tude, the team will be vic­to­ri­ous."

Paras­nath al­so point­ed out that the most suc­cess­ful fast bowlers are not the fastest ones but those who had bet­ter con­trol and utilise clever vari­a­tions of pace and swing com­pared to gen­uine­ly ex­press fast bowlers. He men­tioned many world class play­ers and stressed that: "When you look back at the ca­reers of bowlers like Aus­tralia's Glenn Mc­Grath, South Africa's Shaun Pol­lock, Sri Lan­ka's Chamin­da Vaas and our own West In­di­an stal­warts Mal­colm Mar­shall, Joel Gar­ner and Curt­ly Am­brose; they who were not faster than their team­mates or coun­ter­parts, but were dead­ly ac­cu­rate and suc­cess­ful de­spite the con­di­tions. At times, there were vir­tu­al­ly un­playable be­cause of their nag­ging ac­cu­ra­cy and abil­i­ty to de­ceive their op­po­nents with vari­a­tions of swing and sub­tle change of pace. As play­ers as­pir­ing to do well at this lev­el and to play for your se­nior teams and West In­dies teams, you need to study videos of the great play­ers and learn from them."

The re­spect­ed com­men­ta­tor sug­gest­ed that every play­er should strive to at­tain out­stand­ing per­for­mances so as the get the nod of the West In­dies se­lec­tors who will be se­lect­ing play­ers for the West In­dies youth team to par­tic­i­pate in the World Un­der-19 Youth Cup.

Paras­nath al­so took the op­por­tu­ni­ty to present all mem­bers of the T&T Un­der 19 team with copies of the Crick­et Records 2013 Mag­a­zine .

T&T's na­tion­al Un­der 19 is led by Vikash Mo­han who was at the helm last year. Solozano is the vice-cap­tain while for­mer na­tion­al pac­er Kelvin Williams is the team's coach. The squad de­part­ed yes­ter­day for St Kitts while the two-in­nings com­pe­ti­tion starts to­mor­row.

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