WI over 50s descend in TT for four practice matches

Jan 09, 2020 Sports

With less than 60 days remaining for the West Indies Over-50 team to wing out for South Africa to take part in the second Over-50 World Cup being played there from March 11th to 25th, the team arrived in Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday last to play four practice matches there.
The West Indies will compete in Pool B of the tournament playing New Zealand in their opening match, before facing Australia a few days after. The 12 teams have been placed in two groups as follow:
POOL A POOL B
England Australia
India Canada
Namibia New Zealand
Pakistan West Indies
South Africa Sri Lanka
Wales Zimbabwe
The West Indies had two practice matches at the Broward Stadium in Ft Lauderdale which were severely curtailed by the weather forcing the organizers to arrange four matches in Trinidad and Tobago.
The West Indies has announced a 22-man squad which will be trimmed down to 16 at the conclusion of these practice matches next weekend.
Since this tournament is a non-ICC one, the organizers have secured the blessings of CWI and will be using the maroon colours of the West Indies team excepting its logo. In his message to the Team and organizers, CWI President Ricky Skerritt wished the Chairman and the team the very best in this project and its future endeavors. In his message for its magazine, Mr. Skerritt wrote: “Raj’s current project to pioneer Caribbean participation in the Over-50s World Cup in 2020 is a private initiative that Cricket West Indies applauds. Although CWI’s resources are now more focused on developing younger players, we commend any project that seeks to directly engage past regional players in cricket-related activity.
On behalf of Cricket West Indies, I wish Raj and his colleagues a most successful cricket adventure. The best wishes of all West Indians should be with them in South Africa.”
The WI Over 50s Organizing Committee is headed by cricket administrator, Raj Singh, who will also manage the team in SA. Raj will be ably assisted by Dave Narine; Joseph Reds Perreira serves as the PRO, while John Ramsingh serves as the Media Officer. Rick Ali and Ian Allen round out the Organizing Committee. Reds Perreira and John Ramsingh will form the nucleus of the Live Streaming commentary panel and may be joined by some guest commentators in Trinidad and Tobago. The link will be publicized on our Face Book page.
In an effort to have the squad become fully acclimatised with the conditions and each other, four guest players from T and T will join 18 members of the WI party to play the first practice match at the National Cricket Centre at Balmain.
The teams for this game read; Zamin XI; Virgil Gossai, Hafiz Mohamed, Sudesh Dhaniram, Imtiaz Rick Ali, Julian Charles, Lawrence Pooran, Zamin Amin, Curtis Richards, Fareed Hosein, Howard Jodhan and Soortay Rajnauth.
Ishwar’s XI; Krish Harricharan, Rajendra Sadeo, Roy Singh, Azad Mohammed, Kenny Girdharry, Richard Seechan, Narine Bidhesi, Mark Audain, Ishwar Maraj, Steve Williams and Ramesh Ramdyan.
The second match will be played against a star-studded Clarke Road United Masters team which team features a number of past and present national T and T cricketers.
On Wednesday, NAS Masters team will pit their skills against the WI Over 50 team with the final match being played against the Queen’s Park Masters at the Queen’s Park Oval on Thursday.

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