Trinidad and Tobago national cricket team

Trinidad and Tobago

Captain:	Jason Mohammed
Coach:	Gus Logie
Colors:	Red, white, black
Founded:	1869
Home ground:	Queen's Park Oval
Capacity:	20,000
Four Day wins:	4 (plus 1 shared)
WICB Cup wins:	10 (plus 1 shared)
Twenty20 wins:	3
Official website:	http://ttcb.co.tt/

The Trinidad and Tobago cricket team is the representative cricket team of the country of Trinidad and Tobago.

The team takes part in inter-regional cricket competitions in the Caribbean, such as the West Indies' Professional Cricket League (which includes the Regional Four Day Competition and the NAGICO Regional Super50) under the franchise name Trinidad and Tobago Red Force, with the best players selected for the West Indies team, which plays international cricket.

Though a team represented T&T in the 1998 Commonwealth Games. Trinidad and Tobago have won the Regional Four Day Competition five times and the WICB Cup ten times. They are the current Caribbean Twenty20 champions.

Team history

Port of Spain's Brian Lara holds the record for the highest Test score and formerly held the record for the most Test runs.

Teams from Trinidad played first-class cricket from 1869, when Trinidad took on Demerara for two matches, winning one and losing one. They also participated in the Inter-Colonial Tournament between Barbados, British Guiana (formerly Demerara), and themselves, playing in all 28 tournaments that were held between 1891–92 and 1938–39. From the late 1880s, Tobago was incorporated into the crown colony of Trinidad as a ward.

After independence in 1962, the team changed its name to reflect the official name of the country, Trinidad and Tobago, and when the Shell Shield began in 1965–66 the team competed under the name of Trinidad and Tobago. They won their first title on their fourth outing, in 1969–70, and also won the next year's competition, but since then Trinidad and Tobago have only taken three titles in 35 seasons. During this time cricketers from Trinidad competed in the Beaumont Cup which had first class status.

In one-day cricket, Trinidad and Tobago won four titles in eight seasons from 1989–90 to 1996–97, and also won the 2004–05 one-day title.

T&T cricket team participated and were runners-up at the inaugural Champions' league T-20.The team stayed unbeaten until the finals.

Current squad

Name	Age	Batting style	Bowling style	Test	FC	Notes
First-class Captain
Denesh Ramdin	39	Right-handed	n/a	59	122	West Indian Test captain
List-A Captain
Jason Mohammed	38	Right-handed	Off Break	-	41
Vice-captain
Rayad Emrit	43	Right-handed	Right medium-fast	-	68
Batsman
Jonathan Augustus	37	Right-handed	Off Break	-	3
Adrian Barath	34	Right-handed	Off Break	15	58
Darren Bravo	35	Left-handed	Right medium	30	66
Evin Lewis	32	Left-handed	n/a	-	10
Jason Mohammed	38	Right-handed	Off Break	-	41
Lendl Simmons	39	Right-handed	Right medium	8	90
Wicket-keepers
Stephen Katwaroo	31	Right-handed	n/a	-	10
Nicolas Pooran	29	Left-handed	n/a	-	-
All-rounders
Dwayne Bravo	41	Right-handed	Right medium-fast	40	100	West Indian ODI Capatin
Kevon Cooper	35	Rightt-handed	Right medium	-	2
Yannick Cariah	32	Left-handed	Leg Break	-	15
Akeal Hosein	31	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	-	5
Imran Khan	40	Right-handed	Leg Break	-	52
Yannick Ottley	33	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	-	8
Kieron Pollard	37	Right-handed	Right medium	-	26
Navin Stewart	31	Right-handed	Right medium-fast	-	4
Spinners
Samuel Badree	43	Right-handed	Leg Break	-	12
Sherwin Ganga	42	Left-handed	Off break	-	40
Amit Jaggernauth	41	Right-handed	Off break	1	69
Ricky Jaipaul	32	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	-	3
Sunil Narine	36	Right-handed	Off break	6	13
Fast Bowlers
Daron Cruickshank	36	Right-handed	Right medium	-	3
Shannon Gabriel	36	Right-handed	Right fast	7	45
Ravi Rampaul	39	Left-handed	Right medium-fast	18	62
Marlon Richards	35	Right-handed	Right medium	-	9

Sources

Coaching Staff

• Head coach: Gus Logie
• Asst. Coach: Kelvin Williams
• Batting coach: n/a
• Bowling coach: n/a
• Fielding coach: n/a
• Manager: Roland Sampath
• Mental conditioning coach: Adarayll John
• Fitness trainer: n/a
• Head Physiotherapist: n/a
• Masseur: n/a
• Performance analyst: n/a

Notable players

Learie Constantine, Trinidad all-rounder

The list of prominent cricketers who have represented Trinidad and Tobago includes:

• Ian Bishop
• Learie Constantine
• Mervyn Dillon
• Andy Ganteaume - Scored a century in his only Test Innings
• Larry Gomes
• Simpson Guillen - One of a few persons to have played Test Cricket for two countries (WI and NZ)
• Tyrell Johnson - took a wicket with his first ball in Test Cricket
• Brian Lara - World Record - Highest Test and First Class scores
• Gus Logie (Augustine Logie)
• Deryck Murray
• Jack Noreiga - Only West Indian to take 9 wickets in one Test innings
• Sonny Ramadhin
• Clifford Roach - First West Indian to score a Test century and Test double century
• Jeffrey Stollmeyer
• Nyron Asgarali

Honours

• Regional Four Day Competition (5): 1969–70, 1970–71, 1975–76 (shared), 1984–85, 2005–06

• Domestic one-day competition (10): 1978–79, 1980–81, 1989–90, 1991–92, 1995–1996 (shared), 1996–1997, 2004–2005, 2006–2007, 2008–2009, 2009–2010

• Caribbean Twenty20 (3): 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13

• Inter-Colonial Tournament (defunct) (12): 1901–02, 1903–04, 1907–08, 1909–10, 1921–22 (shared), 1924–25, 1925–26, 1928–29, 1931–32, 1933–34, 1936–37, 1938–39

• Stanford 20/20 (defunct) (1): 2008
• Trans-Atlantic Twenty20 Champions Cup (Stanford Super Series) (defunct) (1): 2008

Grounds

• Queen's Park Oval in Port of Spain with 143 first-class games

• Guaracara Park in Pointe-à-Pierre with 41 games.

• National Cricket Centre at Couva with one game.
• Sir Frank Worrell Memorial Ground at UWI St Augustine
• Shaw Park at Scarborough, Tobago with one game.

See also

• Trinidad and Tobago women's cricket team
• List of international cricketers from Trinidad and Tobago

External links

• 2005–06 KFC Cup Squad from Cricinfo