Vin­ode Mam­chan

Daren Gan­ga, cap­tain of the T&T se­nior crick­et team bound for In­dia to play in the Cham­pi­ons League crick­et se­ries, says that his team is ready to com­pete. Gan­ga, was speak­ing at a farewell func­tion for his team or­gan­ised by bmo­bile at the Hilton Trinidad yes­ter­day. All mem­bers of the team were giv­en mo­bile tele­phone hand­sets from bmo­bile. The phones are equipped with roam­ing ca­pa­bil­i­ties and the play­ers have been giv­en free air­time to stay in touch with their fam­i­ly and friends, while on tour.

TSTT's head of mar­ket­ing William Pow­ell said the crick­eters had the tal­ent to do well but they need­ed to be sup­port­ed in their ef­fort to make their coun­try proud. He said bmo­bile was do­ing its part to make the crick­eters com­fort­able and he hoped the com­pa­ny's ges­ture helped in some way. Gan­ga said the tour­na­ment will be the re­birth of the na­tion­al team. "This Twen­ty20 tour­na­ment would prove to be the re­birth of the na­tion­al team. The re­birth of ded­i­ca­tion to ex­cel­lence.

Whether we win or lose, what we are about is giv­ing of our best and I would like to en­sure the coun­try that we will go to this tour­na­ment and play as win­ners," he said. Man­ag­er of the team Col­in Bor­de said the team had been pre­pared as best as pos­si­ble and it was now time to ex­e­cute. CEO of the TTCB, Forbes Per­saud made a call on Gov­ern­ment to come on board. "We have not re­ceived any as­sis­tance from Gov­ern­ment in this ven­ture and we are hop­ing that they still come on­board to as­sist." The TTCB will host a farewell din­ner for the team at the Crowne Plaza tonight at 7.30.