The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) will be hoping that the newly elected government of T&T, comes on board and assist them with the upcoming Nagico Super50 tournament which will be staged in T&T and St. Kitts.
The T&T Cricket Board (TTCB) acting on behalf of the WICB had negotiated a three-year deal with the former government at a cost of US$1M per year however information coming to hand is that monies promised were only delivered for the first year and the WICB has had to foot the bill since then.
WICB director and president of the TTCB Azim Bassarath revealed yesterday that in 2013 the then government through invesTT had promised to come on board as a sponsor of the Super50 tournament with the knowledge that the first three years of the tournament will be staged in T&T. “We were able to engage the former government for three years at the start of the new tournament,” said Bassarath. We met with invesTT because they were serious about getting foreign investors to come into T&T and we told them of the powerful vehicle that cricket was and they agreed.
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