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TTCB T20 Festival starts today in South Trinidad

Dec 28, 2010 Sports

Guyana vying for TT$20,000 prize money

By Sean Devers

Guyana, the Region’s most successful T20 cricket team will have the added incentive of playing for a first prize of TT$20,000 when the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board’s T20 Cricket Festival bowls off today at Guaracara Park in Pointe-a-Pierre, South Trinidad.
The T&T senior team, which will be aiming to regain their Regional T20 title which they lost this year when Guyana defeated Barbados in the Caribbean T20 Final at the Queens Park Oval, will be out to avenge their two defeats in Trinidad this year to Guyana in T20 Cricket, while the T&T ‘A’ team and the T&T National Under-23 team will also be aiming for top honours in the competition which replaces the annual North South Classic.
The series will be held today, tomorrow and Thursday and two matches will be played each day.
The Guyana team, preparing for the defence of their Caribbean T20 title in Antigua and Barbados next month, departed Guyana yesterday morning and Skipper Ramnaresh Sarwan feels that the competition is a good one for his team.
“We have not played together as a team in this format since the Champions League in South Africa in September and this is a great opportunity for us to access where we are as a unit as we prepare for the Caribbean T20 competition next month,” Sarwan said.
The re-called West Indies middle order  batsman added that traveling as a team and coming up against a tough team like Trinidad and Tobago in their conditions is also very good mental preparation for his team which has won two of the three Regional T20 competitions played in the Caribbean.
Guyana beat T&T in the Stanford T20 final in Antigua in 2006 and again in this year’s Caribbean T20 semi-finals and a keen contest is anticipated between the arch rivals who did not meet in 2008 when T&T took the 2nd Stanford title.
President of the T&T Cricket Board Azim Bassarath says the presence of West Indies batsmen Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ramnaresh Sarwan in the Guyana team will be an added attraction.
“We want the series to be very competitive and we thought that giving a monetary prize will spur the players on and lead to very intense cricket.” Bassarath added.
The Guyanese return to South America on New Year’s Eve to polish off their preparations for the Caribbean Cup in which they face Jamaica, who beat them in the 2008 semi-finals, in their opening match in Antigua from 20:00hrs on January 10.

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