New Red Force sign­ing Nars­ingh De­onar­ine, has ex­pressed his de­light in join­ing the T&T fran­chise and is con­fi­dent of his new team win­ning the West In­dies Crick­et Board Re­gion­al Four-Day tour­na­ment.

The ex­cit­ing Guyanese all-rounder joined the Red Force af­ter the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) ne­go­ti­at­ed a trade with the Lee­ward Is­lands Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion (LI­CA) in ex­change for the ser­vices of open­ing bats­man Nkrumah Bon­ner.

"I am very hap­py and de­light­ed about be­ing se­lect­ed for the Red Force be­cause it has been a chal­lenge for my­self and my fam­i­ly when play­ing for Guyana in terms of the new set­up of Caribbean First Class crick­et.

"Be­ing con­tract­ed, and my fam­i­ly be­ing in Trinidad was very dif­fi­cult. My two chil­dren are two years and eight months old. My son is now start­ing school so my wife and I put a lot of thought in­to it and I de­cid­ed to move over to Trinidad.

"I was lucky that Trinidad was able to get me with the swap with Bon­ner so I am very hap­py to be a part of the Red Force squad," said De­onar­ine.

He said he was look­ing for­ward to this new chal­lenge and was sure T&T will be at the top of the ta­ble at the end of the 2016 re­gion­al crick­et sea­son. "We have a good group of ex­pe­ri­enced play­ers and tal­ent­ed young­sters in the squad which will make us tough to beat," said De­onar­ine. He al­so ex­pressed his grat­i­tude to the TTCB and LI­CA for com­ing to an agree­ment which al­lows him to play top class re­gion­al crick­et and to be clos­er to his fam­i­ly.

"The TTCB and LI­CA must be com­mend­ed for the man­ner in which they worked to­geth­er to en­sure that I can play crick­et and be with my wife and chil­dren. I have a young fam­i­ly and it was crit­i­cal for me to be there to sup­port my wife and be a fa­ther to my chil­dren.

"As a pro­fes­sion­al crick­eter you have to make a lot of sac­ri­fices but I did not want my fam­i­ly to suf­fer when there was an op­por­tu­ni­ty to play re­gion­al crick­et and be with them," said De­onar­ine.

He said that his wife Aneesa, who is the daugh­ter of for­mer West In­dies and T&T mys­tery spin­ner In­shan Ali, is over­joyed that he is in Trinidad rep­re­sent­ing the Red Force.

"My wife is very hap­py be­cause Trinidad is her home and I will be here to help raise our fam­i­ly. When I played for Guyana she al­ways said that she want­ed me to do well, but that she re­mains a T&T sup­port­er. Now she can sup­port me and the team I play for," said De­onar­ine con­fi­dent­ly.