Kwin­si Williams walked away with the Harold Joseph tro­phy for the "Youth Crick­eter of the Year" at the Home Con­struc­tion Lim­it­ed (HCL) Trinci­ty Crick­et League awards func­tion. The event was held on No­vem­ber 13 at the HCL Or­gan­i­sa­tion­al and De­vel­op­ment Cen­tre in Tacarigua.

For the sec­ond straight year, a play­er from the Ul­ric "Bug­gy" Haynes Coach­ing School has won the top youth award. Last year, Bri­an Christ­mas, al­so of the coach­ing school, was the re­cip­i­ent. Williams al­so col­lect­ed a pair of crick­et pads for his out­stand­ing per­for­mance this sea­son in­clud­ing scor­ing the most runs and claim­ing 7-14 in the Son­ny Ram­per­sad Two-Evening com­pe­ti­tion. The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies Sport and Ed­u­ca­tion Cen­tre UWIS­PEC) team won the com­pe­ti­tion.

UWIS­PEC de­feat­ed Cane Farm in the fi­nal of the com­pe­ti­tion by 33 runs. Adri­an Ali emerged the "Man-of-the-Match" af­ter scor­ing 47. For­mer West In­dies play­er Lendl Sim­mons col­lect­ed the award for the most runs, 390 in sev­en in­nings with an av­er­age of 97.5. He had the best bat­ting ef­fort of 151 not out and notched three half cen­turies in the sea­son.

The young crick­eters were treat­ed to an ad­dress by for­mer West In­dies and Bar­ba­dos open­ing bats­man, Gor­don Greenidge, ad­vis­ing the young­sters to stay with their club to build it up.First vice pres­i­dent of the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB), Dud­nath Ramkessoon, gave the fea­ture ad­dress.