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Bravo out Leewards clash

 
sgtdjones 2019-01-04 00:28:40 

Bravo out Leewards clash

Styl­ish left-hand­ed bats­man Dar­ren Bra­vo was not se­lect­ed on the T&T Red Force team for the sec­ond round match of the West In­dies Four-day cham­pi­onship match against the Lee­wards Hur­ri­canes start­ing at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba on Fri­day.

The T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) re­leased the names of the play­ers yes­ter­day, and Bra­vo who was ini­tial­ly tout­ed as be­ing on the team to face the Lee­wards was a no­table ab­sen­tee. Coach Kelvin Williams told Guardian Sport that Bra­vo in­di­cat­ed that he will not be avail­able for this clash but will make him­self avail­able from the next round, which is against Ja­maica at Sabi­na Park.

Mak­ing a re­turn to the team af­ter their so­journ to Bangladesh with the Windies team is fast bowler Shan­non Gabriel and left-arm spin­ner Khary Pierre. Williams is ex­cit­ed about their re­turn: “It is good to have these guys back with us, and we are look­ing for great per­for­mances from them. Shan­non has not played four-day crick­et for quite a while, so we are hop­ing that he runs in hard for us and makes a dif­fer­ence. It is good to have them with us, as we look to get our cam­paign back on track af­ter los­ing our open­ing match against the Wind­wards.”


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The squad is De­nesh Ramdin (Capt), Kyle Hope, Je­re­my Solozano, Yan­nick Cari­ah, Amir Jan­goo, Ja­son Mo­hammed, Joshua Da Sil­va, Khary Pierre, Bri­an Charles, Daniel St.Clair, Im­ran Khan, An­der­son Phillip and Shan­non Gabriel. Man­ag­er R. Sam­path, Coach: K. Williams, Physio: J. Pil­grim.

 
sgtdjones 2019-01-04 00:30:45 

New Year means new start for Red Force

Coach of the T&T Red Force team Kelvin Williams is hop­ing for a new start for his team which will play its first game of 2019 against the Lee­wards Hur­ri­canes in Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Four-day cham­pi­onship at Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my from 10 am.

Red Force played its open­ing match of the tour­na­ment in De­cem­ber and lost to the Wind­wards Vol­ca­noes at the same venue. It has not been a very hap­py venue for the Red Force which has lost all four of its First Class match­es con­test­ed in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do, to date.

Williams is hop­ing that af­ter the Christ­mas break, the team will come back with a mind­set of look­ing to change its for­tunes.

"We have not had a good run at the Lara Acad­e­my but I have looked at the play­ers com­ing back af­ter their break and they look to be ea­ger and car­ry­ing the right mind­set to play much bet­ter."

The Lee­wards opened their cam­paign with a win over Bar­ba­dos but fell to lead­ers and triple de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Guyana Jaguars. Whilst the Red Force is last in the stand­ings on 4.4 points, the Hur­ri­canes are third with 22.2 points. Guyana leads with 37 points, fol­lowed by the Bar­ba­dos Pride on 22.6.


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FuzzyWuzzy 2019-01-04 07:22:08 

In reply to sgtdjones

Does he really want to play cricket?

 
brians_da_best 2019-01-04 07:57:45 

Something's definitely off with this guy. I would have thought he would want to play as many matches as he possibly could, to get on the team to face England.

The players got back from bangladesh quite a few days back, and most, if not all of them, are appearing for their respective teams. And Bravo needs game time the most, to be honest, he clearly looked rusty all tour, until they finally dropped him.

 
Drapsey 2019-01-04 08:06:56 


Man needs to spend more good time with the Venezuelan.

 
XDFIX 2019-01-04 09:40:09 

In reply to Drapsey

Perhaps doesn't see LI as any big test for his skills

 
jballer84 2019-01-04 10:00:25 

In reply to brians_da_best

Agreed. This makes me question how badly he wants to play. He's missed alot of cricket and this is his opportunity to play top level cricket against quality bowlers to get back into the mix. Playing test cricket will give him the time he needs to spend at the wicket without feeling the pressure to score quickly. It's baffling

 
TheTrail 2019-01-04 11:34:38 

He is playing at home and still got the jitters...

FOF

 
voiceofreason 2019-01-04 12:35:13 

In reply to XDFIX

Leewards with an attack of Aljo/ Jremiah Louis/ Cornwall not a big test? Probably the biggest he will get at this level?

 
natty_forever 2019-01-04 13:38:59 

In reply to voiceofreason… serious?

 
aliaskid13 2019-01-04 14:13:11 

In reply to natty_forever

Leewards with an attack of Aljo/ Jremiah Louis/ Cornwall not a big test? Probably the biggest he will get at this level?


Sounds legit to me...

 
voiceofreason 2019-01-04 16:33:18 

In reply to natty_forever
Don't ask me ....Just ask the Bumshites...