The West In­dies Play­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (WIPA) has ex­tend­ed con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly and friends of T&T crick­et­ing icon Pas­cal Roberts. Roberts had a grand ca­reer with the Paragon Crick­et Club dur­ing the 1970's along­side such play­ers as Prince Bartholomew, Jack Nor­ie­ga, Richard Gabriel, Leo John, Ron Faria and Bernard Julien. He was a con­stant dur­ing those glo­ry days for Paragon and helped de­fine the club's lega­cy as a peren­ni­al lo­cal con­tender and cham­pi­on.

Roberts, the cel­e­brat­ed bowler, lat­er be­came a na­tion­al se­lec­tor for T&T. His hard work and un­end­ing ded­i­ca­tion served to de­vel­op the foun­da­tion of T&T crick­et and in­spired young crick­eters to ded­i­cate them­selves to the game. WIPA pres­i­dent and Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer (CEO), Di­nanath Ram­nar­ine, has fond mem­o­ries of Pas­cal Roberts who was a na­tion­al se­lec­tor when Ram­nar­ine played for T&T.

"Roberts al­ways re­mained in­volved in the game in T&T and would al­ways have good, sage ad­vice for young men like my­self who want­ed to ded­i­cate our lives to the crick­et the way that he did," said Ram­nar­ine. "It is a tes­ta­ment to the foun­da­tion that Pas­cal Roberts helped to build in T&T that suc­ces­sive gen­er­a­tions of lo­cal crick­eters were able to ben­e­fit from the prin­ci­ples and as­pi­ra­tions that Roberts him­self em­bod­ied."