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Monday, July 14, 2025

Red Force ready for regional battle

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Vinode Mamchan Snr- Sports Reporter
2077 days ago
20191106
T&T’s spinner Imran Khan

T&T’s spinner Imran Khan

The T&T Red Force team will re­main un­changed for Wednes­day's start of the Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Colo­nial Su­per50 Tour­na­ment, ac­cord­ing to the pres­i­dent of the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) Az­im Bas­sarath.

The Red Force will be seek­ing to re­turn to win­ning ways when the tour­na­ment gets off for them in one of three match­es which are all day/night con­tests bowl­ing off at 1.30 pm.

The lo­cal team will square off against de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Wind­wards Is­lands Vol­ca­noes at the Queen's Park Oval in Port-of-Spain.

Ear­li­er this month, the team was se­lect­ed with all-rounder Im­ran Khan at the helm and coach Mervyn Dil­lon said there would be fur­ther prac­tice match­es and the board had up un­til Mon­day to make any changes if they want­ed.

How­ev­er, Bas­sarath said on Mon­day that the man­am­genet team had de­cid­ed to go with the same squad.

"We have made no changes al­though there was time al­lowed to do such. The se­lec­tors have de­cid­ed on a team and this is the fi­nal team for the tour­na­ment."

On an­oth­er note, Bas­sarath, who is chair­man of the TTCB's re­gion­al match­es com­mit­tee, said all is in place to host a suc­cess­ful tour­na­ment.

"We have host­ed many tour­na­ments like this be­fore and we have been very suc­cess­ful. As chair­man of the com­mit­tee that is in place to make sure every­thing is in place, I can re­port that all has pro­gressed well and we are ex­pect­ing a won­der­ful tour­na­ment. I want­ed to take this op­por­tu­ni­ty to say thanks to the hard-work­ing mem­bers of this com­mit­tee who have been at it over the past few weeks."

Bas­sarath al­so called on the pub­lic to come out and sup­port the team.

"I am urg­ing the pub­lic to come out and sup­port these play­ers in their bid to win the ti­tle. This time around, if they per­form well and get in­to the knock­out stages there is a pos­si­bil­i­ty of play­ing a fi­nal right in front of their home crowd," he said.

"We have been en­trust­ed with the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty of host­ing the fi­nal and we see this as an added in­cen­tive for our play­ers. We are al­so hap­py that our loy­al crick­et fans will be able to see a lot of match­es right in their back­yards. We are hap­py about this and we want the fans to rec­i­p­ro­cate by com­ing out to these match­es."

T&T is in group B along with the Guyana Ja­gaurs, Wind­ward Vol­ca­noes, West In­dies Emerg­ing Play­ers and the Unit­ed States.

Red Force team

Im­ran Khan (Cap­tain), Yan­nick Ot­t­ley (Vice-Cap­tain), Kyle Hope, Je­re­my Solozano, Ja­son Mo­hammed, Tion Web­ster, Odean Smith, An­der­son Phillip, Steven Kat­wa­roo, Jon Ross Jagge­sar, Kea­gan Sim­mons, Akeal Ho­sein, Dar­ren Bra­vo, Isa­iah Ra­jah. Mervyn Dil­lon (Coach), David Fur­longe (Man­ag­er).


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