Trinidad and Tobago national cricket team

Trinidad and Tobago
Coach:	Kelvin Williams
Captain:	Dinesh Ramdin
Colours:	Red      White      Black
Founded:	1869
Home ground:	Queen's Park Oval
Capacity:	40,000
Four Day wins:	4 (plus 1 shared)
WICB Cup wins:	9 (plus 1 shared)
Twenty20 wins:	3
Official website:	Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board

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 Regional Four Day Competition and the WICB Cup, 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 was the most popular and entertaining team of the competition and stayed unbeaten until the finals.

Squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No.	Name	Nat	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Batsmen
1	Daren Ganga		(1979-01-14) 14 January 1979	Right-handed	Right arm off break
15	Adrian Barath		(1990-04-14) 14 April 1990	Right-handed	Right arm off break
46	Darren Bravo		(1989-02-06) 6 February 1989	Left-handed	Left arm medium-fast
54	Lendl Simmons		(1985-01-25) 25 January 1985	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast
3	Jason Mohammed		(1986-09-23) 23 September 1986	Right-handed	Right arm off break
?	Justin Guillen		(1986-01-02) 2 January 1986	Left-handed	Right arm off break
?	Aneil Kanhai		(1982-04-12) 12 April 1982	Left-handed	Right arm off break
All-rounders
?	Richard Kelly		(1984-02-19) 19 February 1984	Left-handed	Right arm fast-medium
5	Sherwin Ganga		(1982-02-13) 13 February 1982	Left-handed	Right arm off break
47	Dwayne Bravo		(1983-10-07) 7 October 1983	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast
51	Rayad Emrit		(1981-03-08) 8 March 1981	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast
55	Kieron Pollard		(1987-05-12) 12 May 1987	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast
?	Imran Khan		(1984-12-06) 6 December 1984	Right-handed	Right arm leg break
Wicket-keepers
80	Denesh Ramdin		(1985-03-13) 13 March 1985	Right-handed	—	Captain
40	William Perkins		(1986-10-08) 8 October 1986	Right-handed	—
Bowlers
7	Samuel Badree		(1981-03-09) 9 March 1981	Right-handed	Right arm leg break
14	Ravi Rampaul		(1984-10-15) 15 October 1984	Left-handed	Right arm fast-medium
20	Kevon Cooper		(1989-02-02) 2 February 1989	Right-handed	Right arm medium
24	Sunil Narine		(1988-05-26) 26 May 1988	Left-handed	Right arm off break
31	Dave Mohammed		(1979-10-08) 8 October 1979	Left-handed	Slow left-arm chinaman
?	Amit Jaggernauth		(1983-11-16) 16 November 1983	Left-handed	Right arm off break
?	Shannon Gabriel		(1988-04-28) 28 April 1988	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium

Source: T20 squad , List A squad , First-class squad

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
• Larry Gomes
• Brian Lara
• Gus Logie
• Deryck Murray
• Sonny Ramadhin
• Jeffrey Stollmeyer
• Nyron Asgarali
• Wes Hall
• Kelvin Williams

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 (1): 2010–11

• 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.

• 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

References

• Cricinfo
• CricketArchive
• 2005-06 KFC Cup Squad from Cricinfo