Bet­ter days are in tore for To­ba­go's crick­et as a his­toric mo­ment oc­curred yes­ter­day that is ex­pect­ed to boost their crick­et for­tunes mov­ing for­ward.

To­ba­go's crick­et will now be paired with St Vin­cent's crick­et and sev­er­al ben­e­fits will go to both is­lands. A mem­o­ran­dum of un­der­stand­ing (MOU) was signed be­tween St Vin­cent and the Grenadines Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Dr Kishore Shal­low and pres­i­dent of the To­ba­go Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion (TCA) Ker­win John at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Thurs­day.

Dr Shal­low, vice-pres­i­dent of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) ex­plained the ben­e­fits say­ing: "We would have tours done by teams from To­ba­go and rec­i­p­ro­cal tours by teams from St Vin­cent. This would al­low for play­ers from both coun­tries to get more crick­et un­der their belts and this would lead to their de­vel­op­ment."

John in re­sponse said: "To­ba­go in the past has been starved of com­pet­i­tive crick­et and hav­ing a To­ba­go team trav­el and play crick­et in an­oth­er coun­try would help our play­ers. We made an un­of­fi­cial tour to St Vin­cent last year and it was very suc­cess­ful. Now this year a St Vin­cent Un­der-15 team will be com­ing to To­ba­go to play and we will then send a se­nior To­ba­go team to that coun­try.

"Dr. Shal­low has tak­en a keen in­ter­est in as­sist­ing us in To­ba­go and we are very hap­py for his help."

John added that there has been an ap­pli­ca­tion made for a To­ba­go team to play in the Wind­ward Is­lands tour­na­ment. "We have asked Dr Shal­low to see if he can as­sist us with play­ing in the Wind­ward Is­lands tour­na­ment, as we used to do in the past. We are hop­ing to get back in­to that and he has promised to look in­to it."

Dr Shal­low in re­sponse said it was a good move to have To­ba­go play in the Wind­ward Is­lands com­pe­ti­tion and he will be look­ing at the pos­si­bil­i­ty. He quick­ly added that if they play in the tour­na­ment it does not make them el­i­gi­ble to play for the Wind­wards.

"It will not make them el­i­gi­ble to play for the Wind­wards but what it will do is give them some good com­pet­i­tive crick­et, which would as­sist their game."

To­ba­go plays as a Zone in the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) set-up and there is no team from To­ba­go that plays in the top flight of lo­cal crick­et.