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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Caribbean Pre­mier League T20

T&T Red Steel: We not ready to come home

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Faced with a vir­tu­al fi­nal as they en­ter in­to their first play-off of the 2014 Li­ma­col Caribbean Pre­mier League T20 tour­na­ment to­day, the T&T Red Steel has adopt­ed the men­tal­i­ty of not be­ing ready to go home.

As the CPLT20 tour­na­ment en­ters its fi­nal stages, it is sure go­ing to live up to the ex­pec­ta­tions as the 'great­est show in sport' and the men from the fun lov­ing twin Re­pub­lic of T&T, def­i­nite­ly want to be part of that ac­tion. As is the norm, once a team los­es in the knock­out phase they jump on the next flight and head home. How­ev­er, man­ag­er of the Red Steel, Col­in Bor­de says that his boys have de­cid­ed that they are not ready to go home and in­stead, will be look­ing to send home the Ja­maica Tallawahs to­day, when they clash at 4 pm at the Warn­er Park in St Kitts.

Both teams are yet to win a match in St Kitts, with the Red Steel go­ing un­der to Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents and An­tigua Hawks­bills and the Tallawahs falling to Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents and St Lu­cia Zouks. The win­ner of this match has a date with the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors to­mor­row night at 8 pm at the same venue.

Yes­ter­day, the T&T Red Steel boys un­der the watch­ful eyes of the head coach Si­mon Hel­mot were busy work­ing on their game in the blaz­ing sun. They know that one slip and they are out and ac­cord­ing to Bor­de: "The boys have said they are not ready to go home as yet and they are fierce­ly fo­cused on the job be­fore them. They know the sit­u­a­tion that we have found our­selves in and they know that the on­ly way out is win­ning now. We need to win three match­es on the trot to lift and ti­tle and the boys are ful­ly aware of the max­i­mum ef­fort that is need­ed at this time.

"Every­one in the squad is fit and rar­ing to go and they are con­fi­dent that we can pull a win over the Tallawahs just as we did in Trinidad. That con­fi­dence will help spur them on be­cause since ar­riv­ing here they are yet to win.

"Tonight we will have a long de­tailed team meet­ing and then a po­si­tion will be tak­en as to whether or not the team will re­main the same or their will be a change."

One of the like­ly changes to the team is the re­turn of Ja­son Mo­hammed for the all rounder Javon Sear­les. Sear­les has not been bowl­ing well and the op­tion of get­ting Mo­hammed in, who can al­so bowl off-spin is a tempt­ing one. Mo­hammed was up front and cen­tre in train­ing yes­ter­day which sug­gests that their might be a role for him against the Tallawahs.

Red Steel will be wary of the de­struc­tive Ja­maican cap­tain Chris Gayle, who has been promis­ing to ex­plore in St. Kitts. The big left han­der could be mur­der­ous at the small Warn­er Park fa­cil­i­ty but the scores of T&T fans who have been fill­ing Li­at planes over the last two days–try­ing to get in­to St. Kitts would hope for a fail­ure from him.

scores

Team M W L D N/R Pts RR

1 Tri­dents 9 6 3 0 0 12 +0.675

2 War­riors 9 6 3 0 0 12 +0.414

3 Red Steel 9 6 3 0 0 12 +0.317

4 Tallawahs 9 6 3 0 0 12 +0.071

5 Zouks 9 2 7 0 0 4 -0.790

6 Hawks­bills 9 1 8 0 0 2 -0.820

TEAMS

T&T Red Steel: Dwayne Bra­vo (cap­tain), Ross Tay­lor, Dar­ren Bra­vo, Samuel Badree, Sulie­man Benn, Kevon Coop­er, Nasir Jamshed,

Kevin O'Brien, Evin Lewis, Nicholas Pooran, Shan­non Gabriel, Fi­del Ed­wards, Ja­son Mo­hammed, Ke­nar Lewis.

Ja­maica Tallawahs: Chris Gayle (cap­tain), Fa­bi­en Allen, Carl­ton Baugh, Jer­maine Black­wood, David Bernard Jnr, Nkru­mar Bon­ner, Odean Browne, Niki­ta Miller, An­drew Richard­son, An­dre Rus­sell, Owais Shah, Jerome Tay­lor, Rusty Theron, Daniel Vet­tori, Adam Vo­ges, Chad­wick Wal­ton.


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