Vin­ode Mam­chan

T&T and West In­dies all rounder Dwayne Bra­vo says that the Guyanese play­ers must be­lieve in them­selves, if they are to per­form well in the up­com­ing Air­tel Cham­pi­ons League in South Africa. Bra­vo said yes­ter­day that it was a huge dis­ap­point­ment for him af­ter T&T lost to Guyana in the semis but he now hopes that the South Amer­i­cans can put up a good show in South Africa. "One thing I would like to tell the Guyana play­ers is that they must not doubt them­selves. They must have self be­lief go­ing in­to this tour­na­ment and they would do well.

"When we played in the Cham­pi­ons League in In­dia last year, the main rea­son we per­formed well was due to the fact that we be­lieved in our­selves. We had that self be­lief that we could com­pete and not just take part in the tour­na­ment. With this at­ti­tude we were able to reach the fi­nals." T&T went down at the fi­nal hur­dle los­ing to New South Wales. Bra­vo will be in­volved in the Cham­pi­ons league this year with his In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL) team Mum­bai In­di­ans.

He said how­ev­er, it was very dis­ap­point­ing that his na­tive coun­try T&T could not qual­i­fy for the tour­na­ment. "We were gut­ted when we lost be­cause we felt that we let down our coun­try. How­ev­er, we had some very good match­es in the tour­na­ment and there were more pos­i­tives than neg­a­tives at the end of it all. "We had some good per­for­mances from Adri­an Barath, young Bra­vo (Dar­ren), Ke­iron Pol­lard, Dave Mo­hammed and my­self. This was good to see and I would like to tell the young­sters that it is not the end of the road for them, they have a lot of crick­et to look for­ward to and they must keep on im­prov­ing.