Twenty five cricketers will benefit from the government’s Elite Athlete programme.
This was revealed by Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs Anil Roberts at Piarco on Monday night when he welcomed the T&T team which won the Caribbean T20 title on Sunday.
Roberts noted that within the next three weeks, the names of the players will be made known.
The benificiaries include 15 men, five women and five development players.
The government has been in talks with national captain Daren Ganga and the president of the West Indies Players Association (WIPA), Dinanath Ramnarine, to bring the project to fruition.
Meanwhile, the T&T Cricket Board (TTCB) will be meeting soon with the minister of Sport to lobby to government to honour the title winning T&T team.
Manager Omar Khan welcomed the decision, noting that the players represented T&T well. “They deserve to be honoured for their great work.”
Khan said the success was built around mental toughness. “The guys played intelligent cricket and T&T played as a company. Everyone was given a role in achieving an overall goal and they did their work admirably.
“In every company the workers have roles and responsibility. It was the same with our team, the guys were given a plan developed by the management and they had to go out there and execute.”
