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T&T’s suc­cess­ful ju­nior crick­eters were urged to strive for the 2023 Crick­et World Cup up­on re­turn­ing from An­tigua on Sun­day night. A small but vi­brant group, most­ly in­clud­ing par­ents, grand­par­ents and sup­port­ers gath­ered at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port to wel­come home the crick­eters, who the day be­fore, won the Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Re­gion­al Un­der-15 Cham­pi­onship.

“We went in as the un­der­dogs from our record the pre­vi­ous year, and we came out vic­to­ri­ous,” man­ag­er Kelvin Mo­hammed ex­claimed. Hav­ing fin­ished sec­ond to last in the 2018 tour­na­ment with 12.4 points, T&T won the ti­tle with 29.2 points this time around, while Guyana had 29.1 points. The lo­cal boys al­so scored dou­ble the runs they had from last year (1200-plus), got the most dis­ci­plined team in the tour­na­ment, and of the five match­es played, had four man-of-the-match awards.

Ar­joon Ram­lal, the first vice-pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board (TTCB) was at the air­port to wel­come home the play­ers. While con­grat­u­lat­ing them on a suc­cess­ful tour­na­ment, he urged them to strive to play in crick­et’s biggest show­piece event.

T&T won the ti­tle with 29.2 points this time around, while Guyana had 29.1 points