Sports ad­min­is­tra­tor Mishri Lutch­me­di­al is mak­ing a call for all crick­eters from T&T to get in­volved in the Bal­main Crick­et League. The $25,000 Rock Hard Ce­ment Bal­main Unit­ed Ten10 (T10) wind­ball crick­et tour­na­ment starts to­day in Bal­main, Cou­va.

Some 32 teams will be tak­ing part in the tour­na­ment that is be­ing spon­sored by Rock Hard Ce­ment and No­vo Tec­knolo­gies.

Pres­i­dent of the Bal­main Unit­ed club for the past 30 years, Lutch­me­di­al said: “We want to do our part to bring the com­mu­ni­ty to­geth­er again and we have de­cid­ed to host this tour­na­ment. We want to do our part to get crick­et go­ing again and hence we have de­cid­ed to host this tour­na­ment.”

The for­mer chair­man of the Cen­tral Zon­al Coun­cil of the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) thinks that the qual­i­ty of the play­ers com­ing to this tour­na­ment will ig­nite great ex­cite­ment.

“We are hop­ing to get play­ers like Sunil Nar­ine to take part in this tour­na­ment and this will bring great ex­cite­ment. At this time of the year, the wind­ball op­tion is bet­ter for us and we are look­ing for­ward to great crick­et. We are grate­ful to our spon­sors for help­ing us bring crick­et to the vil­lage of Bal­main. We are giv­ing back to the com­mu­ni­ty.”

For fur­ther in­for­ma­tion, teams can con­tact Lutchie­me­di­al at 740-5369.

Sev­en-a-side crick­et

in Ch­agua­nas

Coun­cil­lor Adri­an Ali is host­ing a sev­en-a-side wind­ball crick­et tour­na­ment un­der the pa­tron­age of Ch­agua­nas May­or Van­dana Mo­hit.

The hard-work­ing Ali is stag­ing this tour­na­ment for the sec­ond suc­ces­sive year and is look­ing for­ward to teams par­tic­i­pat­ing in what is ex­pect­ed to be the ma­jor crick­et at­trac­tion in Cen­tral over the next month.

The tour­na­ment is card­ed to start Fri­day and 24 teams are ex­pect­ed to take part. Ac­cord­ing to Ali, 18 teams have al­ready reg­is­tered so there are on­ly six spots avail­able in what promis­es to be a very com­pet­i­tive tour­na­ment. The win­ners will pock­et $10,000, sec­ond place gets $5,000 and third place walks away with $2,500.

Ali was high in praise of May­or Mo­hit say­ing: “We are hap­py to have the May­or on board with us at this time. She has been the hard­est work­ing May­or in the his­to­ry of Ch­agua­nas and she is com­mit­ted to us on this project. She sees the val­ue of bring­ing peo­ple to­geth­er for mean­ing­ful ac­tiv­i­ty and we are hap­py to have her on board.

For fur­ther in­for­ma­tion, teams can con­tact Ali at 467-0046.

Mooni­lal press­es New Re­cruits to up dis­ci­pline

In light of the prob­lems cur­rent­ly grip­ping the coun­try with un­ruly protests and al­so vi­o­lence among young peo­ple, Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has urged New Re­cruits crick­et club to en­sure that their mem­bers ex­hib­it the high­est lev­el of dis­ci­pline.

Mooni­lal made the com­ment to club pres­i­dent My­ron Bab­wah as he con­tin­ued his work with crick­et clubs in the South­land by do­nat­ing crick­et gears to them.

He said: “Your club is the best place to cap­ture young minds and mould it. En­sure that you in­stil that dis­ci­pline in the young ones com­ing through the club as this would on­ly help them as cit­i­zens and al­so help with the sur­vival of your club.”

New Re­cruits crick­et club a house­hold name in the South, hails from Mon­key Town in Bar­rack­pore and par­tic­i­pates in the top leagues in South.

Mooni­lal said: “We need to take back this coun­try from the grip of the crim­i­nal el­e­ment and sport has a big role to play in that. We need to start at the club lev­el, where young im­pres­sion­able young men and women will be join­ing in. We need to have strong lead­er­ship and start here and this would pro­duce the type of mod­el cit­i­zens, we need.

“I am a crick­et lover and I can tell you that we can use this sport as a tool to man­u­fac­ture won­der­ful cit­i­zens. Let’s in­crease mem­ber­ship at crick­et clubs so that we can get to more peo­ple.”

Bab­wah was thank­ful for the as­sis­tance giv­en by Mooni­lal say­ing: “If is one thing we can de­pend on Dr Mooni­lal to as­sist us. He has been a good friend of our club and con­tin­ues to look in to make sure that we are do­ing the right thing. We are go­ing to in­crease our mem­ber­ship and work hard with the young ones to lead them on to bet­ter things.”