Category: Domestic News

By Cricket360 Staff A former director at Cricket West Indies (CWI) Dr. Allen Sammy will lead a committee of five that will soon commence interviews with prospective coaches for the position of Head Coach of the T&T Red Force team. The process which started in March was thrown off by the Covid 19 pandemic and only now resumes and according to the president of the TTCB Azim Bassarath the committee will go to work soon. The committee which is chaired by Sammy includes CWI Independent director Debra Coryat Patton, former…

THE POPULAR Sam Jattan Youth Cricket League will be back with a bang over the upcoming Easter school holidays with attractive prizes at stake for the top Under-14 cricketers in the Central Zone of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board. Leading the revival of the 30-overs per team competition is former minister of sport Manohar Ramsaran, acting chairman of the league, who revealed that competition will get underway on Tuesday, March 27. Ramsaran, who is also an executive member of the TTCB, and an advisor to UDECOTT charman Noel Garcia…

Leaders Alescon Comets will face a stern test when they come up against QPCC II at the Queen’s Park Oval Saturday in their round four TTCB Premiership I clash from 10am. Comets are leading the pack with 49 points after three matches including two outright wins in their last two matches. However, those wins came at the result oriented Pierre Road ground and now they come to the big yard to battle QPCC II which is no easy walkover. Charles Guillen men have fought well this season, their first back…

Leaders Alescon Comets will face a stern test when they come up against QPCC II at the Queen’s Park Oval Saturday in their round four TTCB Premiership I clash from 10am. Comets are leading the pack with 49 points after three matches including two outright wins in their last two matches. However, those wins came at the result oriented Pierre Road ground and now they come to the big yard to battle QPCC II which is no easy walkover. Charles Guillen men have fought well this season, their first back…

RENOWN and Killdeer registered big victories last weekend in the second round Two-Day League competition of the South East Zone of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board. Three Renown batsmen hit impressive centuries to lead their team to an innings and 38 runs win over Blended, while Killdeer triumphed by six wickets in a low-scoring match against Rio Claro Sports. Renown also demonstrated their superiority over Blended winning their 20/20 encounter by 38 runs in a key Group “C” fixture. There were also note-worthy performances in the Two-Day League by…

The South Zonal Council of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board will be sending an under-15 team to participate at the second Youth US Open T20 tournament in Fort Lauderdale in August. Organisers of the tournament Cricket Council USA (CCUSA) has already set the dates as August 24, 25 and 26. This created tremendous interest from teams in America as well as outside.The South Zone has decided that sending their U-15 team will give them great exposure in US conditions. Chairman of the Zone, Chaitram Ramjitsingh is happy with the…

The South Zonal Council U-17 team opened their campaign in the Shell 2018, U-17 Interzone series with an easy 35-run win over East Zone at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba. South batting first tallied 226 all out in 49.3 overs with Gregory Nandlal hitting a top score of 67 runs. Giving him good support was skipper Antonio Gomez who got 40. Naparima College student Darren Samlal who has been in form recently scored 36, while all rounder Vanir Maharaj got 25. When East took strike, they battled well…

Having done such wonderful work in the United States in terms of propagating cricket, Mahammad Qureshi has decided to make a foray into Trinidad and Tobago to assist the young cricketers there. Qureshi under the advice of communications and media director at MaqTV Vinode Mamchan has decided to sponsor what will become an annual affair, the Maq North/South Classic in Trinidad. The match will be played at the newly opened Brian Lara Cricket Academy in South Trinidad. Qureshi has decided to come on board as the sponsor of the event…

National batsman Yannic Carriah scored 102 to lead Queen’s Park to first innings points in their drawn encounter against Central Sports in round one of the TTCB Premiership at Felicity yesterday. Central Sports made 201 batting first with left arm spinner Khary Pierre taking 5/43. Queen’s Park then replied strongly with Carriah getting 102 and Tion Webster scoring 49. However former West Indies U-19 player Jyd Goolie sparked a collapse that saw the defending champions struggling to get first innings. He finished with five wickets for 22 runs. Batting a…

It was bound to happen, you put three stumps in the ground and down comes the rain. The opening day of the 2018 domestic season was spoilt by the elements as all four matches in the top flight of the Premiership were affected. The most play took place at Felicity, where defending champions Queen’s Park came up against Central Sports. The game got off to a late start when after lunch when the players finally went out to play, it didn’t come back and they were able to play to…