Close to 100 en­thu­si­as­tic young crick­eters on Sun­day grad­u­at­ed from the Preysal Crick­et School, now spon­sored by Dig­i­cel. Over the past 11 weeks 93 boys and girls be­tween the ages of sev­en and 15 were taught the ba­sics of the game, by sev­er­al of the coun­try's best youth coach­es, head­ed by the club's long-stand­ing de­vel­op­ment team of Win­ston Sobers, De­bideen Man­ick and Boya Sa­hadeo.

The chil­dren were this year giv­en the ad­di­tion­al treat of hav­ing a full day of train­ing at the Queen's Park Oval, both in­door and out­door, and al­so en­joyed a tour of the new mu­se­um at the his­toric Test venue.

Em­pha­sis was al­so placed on keep­ing a jour­nal, with a spe­cial award in this cat­e­go­ry, giv­en to Rais Baksh, aged sev­en, one of the youngest grad­u­ates.

Dud­nath Ram­keesoon, first vice-pres­i­dent of the T&T Crick­et Board show­ered prais­es on the club, in­sist­ing the Preysal mod­el should be adopt­ed by all clubs. He re­mind­ed the gath­er­ing that the club, be­cause of it's em­pha­sis on youth de­vel­op­ment, can now boast of hav­ing every sin­gle na­tion­al youth cap­tain from Preysal, an achieve­ment not matched by any club any­where in the re­gion. This year al­so marked the first of a three-year Dig­i­cel spon­sor­ship of the club's crick­et school.

Ho­n­our Roll

MVP's:

�2 Den­zil La­m­ont and Sachin Dean (Un­der-10)

�2 Raj Rooplal and Bran­don Har­dats­ingh (11-12)

�2 Dar­i­an Kalloo (13-15)

�2 Most Dis­ci­plined Stu­dent– Em­ma Ra­haman.