Vin­ode Mam­chan

Af­ter a less than im­pres­sive First Class sea­son, the 15 play­ers cen­tral­ly con­tract­ed by the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB), will turn up for work at the Sir Frank Wor­rell Crick­et Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va this morn­ing.Pres­i­dent of the TTCB, Az­im Bas­sarath said yes­ter­day that all con­tract­ed play­ers will show up for work this morn­ing. "Re­mem­ber we have con­tract­ed these play­ers to play for T&T and they are paid a month­ly salary.

"We are not tak­ing things light­ly, we are go­ing to treat these play­ers like em­ploy­ees of the Board and they will have to show up to con­tin­ue their de­vel­op­ment as crick­eters."We are not go­ing to just pay a month­ly salary to play­ers and they don't show up to train and do oth­er du­ties when they have no crick­et. The play­ers have to un­der­stand their oblig­a­tions un­der this re­tain­er sys­tem and I am con­fi­dent they will turn out."

T&T won the Nagi­co Su­per50 se­ries and came in fifth in the WICB Pro­fes­sion­al Crick­et League (PCL). Bas­sarath is call­ing for much im­proved per­for­mances go­ing for­ward."The play­ers will meet to­mor­row, with the tech­ni­cal staff and they will plan their sched­ule ac­cord­ing­ly. We are dis­ap­point­ed over their per­for­mances in the PCL and we would like that they put in the hard work that will see a much im­proved per­for­mance mov­ing for­ward. We are con­fi­dent that our crick­eters will im­prove once they fol­low the plan set out by our tech­ni­cal team head­ed by Gus Lo­gie.

"Once they come out and do the re­quired hard work, they would im­prove in­di­vid­u­al­ly and this would lead to im­proved per­for­mances by the team as a whole."We at the TTCB will con­tin­ue to mon­i­tor the progress of the play­ers un­der re­tain­er and would work close­ly with the tech­ni­cal team to make sure that we achieve the lev­el of re­sults that we want."

Con­tract­ed play­ers

The 15 con­tract­ed play­ers are: , Adri­an Barath, Evin Lewis, Ja­son Mo­hammed, Lendl Sim­mons, Steven Kat­wa­roo, Nicholas Pooran, Im­ran Khan, Shan­non Gabriel, Mar­lon Richards, Rayad Em­rit, Ramnaresh Sar­wan, Bryan Charles, Je­re­my Solozano, Akeal Ho­sein, Yan­nick Ot­t­ley.