Vet­er­an Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force bats­men Ja­son Mo­hammed and Evin Lewis have called time on their first-class ca­reers.

The two play­ers made the de­ci­sion to re­tire fol­low­ing T&T’s his­toric cap­ture of the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship ti­tle on Wednes­day – the coun­try’s first in 20 years.

Co­in­ci­den­tal­ly, Mo­hammed, 39, was al­so a mem­ber of the T&T team that won their last 4-Day ti­tle back in 2006.

Hav­ing rep­re­sent­ed the Red Force for two decades, he fin­ish­es his ca­reer as one of the top re­gion­al run scor­ers with 5676 runs from 112 match­es at an av­er­age of 32.25, in­clu­sive of 17 cen­turies and 20 half cen­turies.

Mo­hammed, who al­so played 36 One Day In­ter­na­tion­als and six T20Is for the West In­dies, re­tired from in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et in 2023.

“It’s an amaz­ing feel­ing. We haven’t won this ti­tle for 20 years now, I can’t re­al­ly ex­press my feel­ings. In a way I’ve toiled for a lot of years not hav­ing this ti­tle.

“For me bow­ing out, the sort of crick­et that this team played through­out this year it was re­al­ly amaz­ing. I’m so hap­py to be a part of this,” Mo­hammed said.

“I was in­volved in the team back in 2006 that won. I can’t re­mem­ber how it felt back then, but now it’s a re­al­ly amaz­ing feel­ing and I couldn’t ask for a bet­ter send off af­ter a long ca­reer.”

Mean­while, the 34-year-old Lewis was one of the ar­chi­tects of T&T’s 141-run vic­to­ry over the Guyana Harpy Ea­gles in the fi­nal, scor­ing a match-win­ning cen­tu­ry in the sec­ond in­nings.

He ends his first-class ca­reer with 1439 runs from 27 match­es at an av­er­age of 30.61. He al­so scored two cen­turies and eight half cen­turies.

(CMC)