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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Ramdin, Dillon friends again

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Vinode Mamchan
1993 days ago
20200306

The rift that de­vel­oped be­tween for­mer T&T Red Force skip­per De­nesh Ramdin and cur­rent coach Mervyn Dil­lon has been re­solved and both par­ties have giv­en the com­mit­ment that they will work to­geth­er for the bet­ter­ment of T&T's crick­et.

Pres­i­dent of the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) Az­im Bas­sarath met with Ramdin, Dil­lon, and chair­man of the T&T na­tion­al se­lec­tion pan­el An­tho­ny Gray Wednes­day at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre (NCC) in Bal­main, Cou­va to ad­dress is­sues that have been mak­ing the rounds in the me­dia for the past two weeks be­tween Ramdin and Dil­lon.

Re­cent­ly Ramdin went pub­lic say­ing that Dil­lon does not want him on the team. Ramdin was dropped from the Red Force team for the Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes clash af­ter the team's mas­sive loss to Bar­ba­dos, where scored a ‘pair’ of ducks.

Speak­ing about the snub by the na­tion­al se­lec­tors Ramdin said: “The coach does not want me on the team. We don’t talk, prob­a­bly a good morn­ing here or there but we don’t com­mu­ni­cate.

“It all start­ed last year in St Kitts when we need­ed 140 runs from 15 overs and I was bat­ting at the time. I called off the game be­cause the next three bats­men to come af­ter me was very young and it would have been dif­fi­cult to get that score. I was told he left the ground and called the chair­man of se­lec­tors (An­tho­ny Gray) and the pres­i­dent of the board (Az­im Bas­sarath) to get me fired.”

Dil­lon re­spond­ed by say­ing he was not get­ting the re­quired com­mit­ment from the West In­dies play­er.

Bas­sarath speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia Sports on Thurs­day said: "We met and all is well with both play­ers. We called them to­geth­er with the chair­man of se­lec­tors An­tho­ny Gray and they have all talked and in the end they have de­cid­ed to work to­geth­er for the bet­ter­ment of crick­et in this coun­try.

"The guys were re­al­ly ma­ture dur­ing the dis­cus­sions and they all said that T&T's crick­et must come first and as a re­sult, they have put aside their dif­fer­ences and will con­tin­ue to make their con­tri­bu­tion in tak­ing the game for­ward.

"Ramdin will be avail­able for se­lec­tion from the next match against the Wind­wards right here in Trinidad and To­ba­go, so it is now up to the se­lec­tors to make their choice. What we have done at the board is to clear the way for bet­ter re­la­tions and we all hope it works out well."

Ramdin went back to lo­cal crick­et on the week­end and played for Preysal against QPCC II in the TTCB Pre­mier­ship scor­ing 67 in his team's vic­to­ry.


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