TTCB search for answers to one-day flop

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidadian cricket authorities were set to meet here Thursday in an emergency session to investigate the national side’s failed campaign in the WICB One-Day Championship.

Following the team’s disappointing showing, Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board president Azim Bassarath said he would sit down with his executive to discuss the team’s performance, and would also meet with Captain Daren Ganga and the team management.

Seeking a hat-trick of titles, T&T started the tournament well with an eight-wicket win over Combined Campuses and Colleges but then played to a no-result with Jamaica and lost their final game against the Windward Islands by eight wickets, to crash out of the tournament. “This performance has left us very disappointed indeed. We put everything in place for this team in terms of their build up for this tournament and we would like to find out what went wrong,” Bassarath said.

“The executive has been called in to come up with ideas to move forward from this point and we are going to deal with the matter. I also intend as president of the board to meet with the captain and management of the team to hear from them.

“I am also going to meet with every single player on that team and find out from them individually where they thought the team went wrong over the past year and what they think we can implement to lead to better performances.

“We have had a barren year with the senior team this year and something is not right. Something is missing and we are going to all lengths to find out what went wrong and what we can do to improve.

“We would like to now use this performance as a plus, to see where we are and to move the cricket forward.”

T&T’s failure in the one-day tournament represented the second in four months after they crashed out in the semi-finals of the Caribbean Twenty20 in July, after starting the tournament as favourites.

They were also disappointing in the four-day first class season when they finished fourth behind eventual champions Jamaica.