Mark Deyal of the Pre­mier One club, Clarke Road Unit­ed, made the cut for the West In­dies A Team and its his­toric tour to Nepal.

The all-rounder made his se­nior T&T de­but in 2015 as a mem­ber of Clarke Road Unit­ed, and af­ter mov­ing around the crick­et cir­cuit for a while, he re­aligned with the Clarke Road out­fit, that now sees him as the on­ly Trin­bag­on­ian on the West In­dies A Team to Nepal.

Deyal has been hav­ing a very suc­cess­ful club sea­son, with huge half cen­turies, an un­beat­en cen­tu­ry against Cen­tral Sports and 20 wick­ets to his name. He amassed 405 rums in six league match­es. He has al­so en­joyed stints in the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) and oth­er fran­chis­es on the world­wide crick­et­ing land­scape. Though his un­spon­sored com­mu­ni­ty team is fac­ing nu­mer­ous chal­lenges, it has been able to con­tin­ue its well-doc­u­ment­ed suc­cess­es for over four decades.

In 2024, the club can boast of in­ter­na­tion­al star, Nicholas Pooran as its mar­quee play­er with a num­ber of oth­er tal­ent­ed crick­eters in its line-up. Cap­tain Yan­nick Ot­t­ley, Red Force open­ing bats­man Vikash Mo­han, WI Acad­e­my play­er Joshua James, Com­bined, Col­leges and Cam­pus­es (CCC) rep­re­sen­ta­tive Sha­trughan Ram­baran and Bar­ba­di­an open­ing bats­man Shi­an Brath­waite have all rep­re­sent­ed the club over the past year and have played in the just con­clud­ed Re­gion­al Four-Day tour­na­ment.

The club, which prides it­self on tal­ent iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and de­vel­op­ment, al­so has a num­ber of ex­cep­tion­al young crick­eters with­in its ranks in­clud­ing An­der­son Ma­hase, Shi­va Sankar, Olan­do James, Chris­tiano Ram­nanan and Jonathon Williams.

His­tor­i­cal­ly, the suc­cess list at this rur­al com­mu­ni­ty club is long, in­clud­ing names such as Mukesh Per­sad, Gre­go­ry Ma­habir, Sher­win Gan­ga, Adri­an Barath, An­der­son Phillip, Jyd Goolie, Kyle Hope, Kyle May­ers, Odean Smith and Obed Mc­Coy, to name a few. In a re­lease, the club wished Deyal all suc­cess on the tour to Nepal.