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Friday, May 16, 2025

Kantasingh takes 51 scalps in local cricket

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Pow­er­Gen Sports Club spin­ner Kavesh Kan­tas­ingh con­tin­ues to tor­ment lo­cal bats­men in the T&T Crick­et Board Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion I League tour­na­ment.

The left-arm spin­ner has so far grabbed 51 wick­ets this sea­son which in­cludes an as­tound­ing eight five-wick­ets hauls to un­der­line his sta­tus as one of the best slow bowlers in the na­tion.

With two rounds of crick­et yet to be played, Kan­tas­ingh is a lead­ing con­tender for the pres­ti­gious best bowler award in the league com­pe­ti­tion.

"I have been ma­tur­ing as a crick­eter as I con­tin­ue to play. My ma­tu­ri­ty is vis­i­ble in my game where I have more con­trol over my de­liv­er­ies and the vari­a­tions I use," the 29-year-old said.

This is the first full sea­son of lo­cal crick­et Kan­tas­ingh is par­tic­i­pat­ing in af­ter re­turn­ing to the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St. Au­gus­tine for the last two years to fin­ish his un­der­grad­u­ate de­gree in en­gi­neer­ing.

"If you look at the trend of spin­ners in First Class and in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et you will no­tice they tend to get bet­ter from ages 29 to 34. You tend to un­der­stand the art of spin bowl­ing the old­er you get be­cause you ma­ture as a play­er. I am now com­ing in­to my own and I have def­i­nite­ly not peaked as yet.

"Re­turn­ing to play club crick­et af­ter rep­re­sent­ing the Red Force (na­tion­al team) made it nec­es­sary that I dom­i­nat­ed the league tour­na­ment. If you play First Class crick­et you must be able to dom­i­nate club crick­et to show that you are in the elite brack­et of crick­eters in the coun­try," the cen­tral Trinidad play­er said.

Kan­tas­ingh, who has been a top play­er for the Com­bined Cam­pus­es and Col­leges play­er in the west In­dies Crick­et Board Four-day Tour­na­ment said that his abil­i­ty to bet­ter un­der­stand the game and de­ci­pher the weak­ness­es in op­pos­ing bats­men has de­vel­oped sig­nif­i­cant­ly on his re­turn to the game af­ter com­plet­ing his stud­ies.

"I have be­come bet­ter at work­ing out bats­men and un­der­stand­ing when to use dif­fer­ent de­liv­er­ies. Since I start­ed play­ing I was al­ways very an­a­lyt­i­cal and my read­ing of the game has im­proved. Adapt­ing to dif­fer­ent sit­u­a­tions and know­ing how to bowl in dif­fer­ent for­mats of the game has de­vel­oped sig­nif­i­cant­ly over the past sea­son," said Kan­tas­ingh.

A for­mer star West In­dies Un­der-15 play­er, he added: "For the past cou­ple of months I have been work­ing ar­du­ous­ly on my game. My bowl­ing is ma­tur­ing and this has sig­nif­i­cant­ly in­creased my con­fi­dence. At this stage of my ca­reer I am very con­fi­dent that I can dom­i­nate club and re­gion­al crick­et once I am giv­en the op­por­tu­ni­ty.

"Hav­ing a Red Force con­tract re­al­ly changed my ca­reer be­cause for the first time I was able to fo­cus sole­ly on crick­et. Right now I am at a defin­ing point in my ca­reer where my un­der­stand­ing of the game and con­fi­dence can re­al­ly push me to the next lev­el," he said.


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