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Saturday, July 12, 2025

Manohar: Not much tinkering with T&T team

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The na­tion­al team will not make too many changes to the line-up that will face Com­bined Cam­pus­es and Col­leges (CCC) in their must win last round Nagi­co Su­per50 en­counter to­mor­row at the Queen's Park Oval in Port-of-Spain.The Red Force af­ter falling to Bar­ba­dos in their first match of the tour­na­ment, made two changes to the line-up that whipped the Lee­wards by five wick­ets in To­ba­go on Wednes­day.Now that they are back in Trinidad on a dif­fer­ent pitch changes are ex­pect­ed but ac­cord­ing to man­ag­er Manohar Ram­saran, there may not be too many."I don't think that there will be too many changes to the team. There might prob­a­bly be one change go­ing in­to the fi­nal match."

Open­er Adri­an Barath, who has strug­gled for form, may be a ca­su­al­ty for this match and Lendl Sim­mons might be pushed up the or­der with Kevon Coop­er com­ing back in­to the mix.Ram­saran said the team was very con­fi­dent go­ing in­to the game and they are ex­pect­ing to be in the semi­fi­nals."The boys un­der­stand that it is do or die for them and they can't wait for match time to go out there and do the busi­ness."They are all fo­cused on the task ahead, they know what they have to do and they are go­ing to come very hard at the CCC."

The team prac­ticed at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va yes­ter­day morn­ing and to­day, they will put in their fi­nal work at the Queen's Park Oval from 1.30 pm.T&T is cur­rent­ly third in Group B with five points, trail­ing the CCC on sev­en points and Bar­ba­dos on six.Bar­ba­dos plays the Lee­wards in their fi­nal match on Mon­day and based on cur­rent form, they are ex­pect­ed to win that match. This will put them on at least 10 points, which means that who­ev­er wins be­tween the CCC and T&T will be the next team mak­ing the semi­fi­nal grade.Ram­saran said one very im­por­tant fac­tor is that all the play­ers are fit, so the se­lec­tors will have the full com­ple­ment to choose from.


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