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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Williams not worried about Red Force loss

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Coach David Williams says rest­ing some of his key play­ers for the sec­ond T20 match against Guyana may have been re­spon­si­ble for an eight-run loss in the sec­ond of two games on the week­end.T&T are cur­rent­ly prepar­ing for the Cham­pi­ons League Twen­ty20 in In­dia which starts on Sep­tem­ber 17 and have at least four more match­es lined up be­fore they leave for In­dia on Sep­tem­ber 16, in­clud­ing two against the Wind­ward Is­lands in Do­mini­ca this week­end.Both Dar­ren Bra­vo and Sunil Nar­ine who are part of the T&T squad were rest­ed for the trip to Guyana.

The "Red Force" reached 136 for sev­en in re­ply to Guyana's 144 for six in the sec­ond match and Williams said his play­ers did ex­treme­ly well to come back in the match af­ter los­ing some ear­ly wick­ets.

Rook­ie play­er Evin Lewis helped them get back in­to the con­test with a sol­id 54 and in the end, T&T fell short by eight runs."We fal­tered a bit in the bat­ting in the sec­ond game and the death bowl­ing was not as good as it should have been but all in all it was good per­for­mance," said Williams."Af­ter los­ing three wick­ets for four runs, we came back well to post a good to­tal but we did rest some of our key play­ers," he ex­plained."Lendl Sim­mons, Samuel Badree, Ravi Ram­paul and Yan­nick Ot­t­ley did not play the sec­ond game so it was not the strongest team but in the cir­cum­stances we want­ed to give the oth­er play­ers a run so all in all I am hap­py with the two games. I think we played two very good com­pet­i­tive games," the coach added.But Williams al­so not­ed that T&T did not get all they want­ed from the Guyana trip and ex­pects pac­er Ravi Ram­paul to get a longer run in Do­mini­ca af­ter bowl­ing just one over in Guyana.

The coach ex­plained that the damp con­di­tions and the state of the pitch in Sat­ur­day's game meant that the pac­er, who is on the come­back trail fol­low­ing an an­kle in­jury, just bowled one over.

"He bowled one over be­cause the con­di­tions were not what we ex­pect­ed. There was a lot of rain and it was wet and slip­pery so we did not want to risk it but come Do­mini­ca, he will get a good run and we will be able to bet­ter as­sess him from there," Williams ex­plained.The T&T coach says the coach­ing staff is still search­ing for the right first team com­bi­na­tion of play­ers for their trip to In­dia, and their up­com­ing match­es in Do­mini­ca and then at home in Trinidad will go a long way in help­ing them fine-tune for their big as­sign­ment."We now head to Do­mini­ca for two more com­pet­i­tive games. We are al­ways try­ing to find the right com­bi­na­tion and these match­es will help us to do that be­fore we get to In­dia," said Williams."Nar­ine and Bra­vo are back in the team and that will strength­en the squad al­so.

Lendl Sim­mons is not go­ing to Do­mini­ca but we still have a very good team."We want to make sure we have the right com­bi­na­tion and we want the guys run­ning in­to good form when we head to In­dia."That is the key and we have guys who have been do­ing very well," he con­clud­ed.T&T leave for Do­mini­ca to­mor­row with match­es sched­uled for Fri­day and Sat­ur­day.

T&T Squad: De­nesh Ramdin (cap­tain), Evin Lewis, Adri­an Barath, Nicholas Sookdeosingh, Dar­ren Bra­vo, Ja­son Mo­hammed, Ja­son Mo­hammed, Rayad Em­rit, Yan­nick Ot­t­ley, Nicholas Pooran, Ravi Ram­paul, Sher­win Gan­ga, Sunil Nar­ine, Navin Stew­art, Shan­non Gabriel, Samuel Badree. Omar Khan (man­ag­er), David Williams (coach), Kelvin Williams (as­sis­tant coach), Oba Gul­ston (physio), Di­nesh Ma­habir (video an­a­lyst).


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