Vin­ode Mam­chan

Mem­bers of the T&T crick­et team have giv­en the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) the as­sur­ance that 2010 will be a very suc­cess­ful year.This, ac­cord­ing to pres­i­dent of the TTCB, Az­im Bas­sarath. Of­fi­cials off the TTCB met with the na­tion­al crick­eters and their man­age­ment team on Sun­day at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre (NCC) for a post post-mortem of the re­sults of the past year. This fol­lowed in­di­vid­ual meet­ings with each play­er and the pres­i­dent on Fri­day and Sat­ur­day. Bas­sarath said Sun­day's ses­sion not­ed that T&T had two bad games which de­railed the sea­son. "They spoke off the T20 se­mi-fi­nal loss against Guyana and the match against the Wind­wards in the re­cent West In­dies 50 overs cham­pi­onships.

"What they told us was that they had two bad days at the 'of­fice' and would be fight­ing very hard in the new year to cor­rect their flaws and en­sure that they win their big match­es." T&T fin­ished fourth in the re­gion­al First Class se­ries, was knocked out in the se­mi-fi­nals off the re­gion­al T20 se­ries and failed to come out of the pre­lim­i­nary round in the re­gion­al 50 overs cham­pi­onships. The play­ers have been giv­en the full back­ing off the TTCB for the new sea­son, ac­cord­ing to Bas­sarath. "We have told the play­ers that we are proud of them and we are go­ing to do all we can to make sure they are well tak­en care off, as they go out to rep­re­sent the coun­try.

"The re­gion­al team's prepa­ra­tion com­mit­tee will be meet­ing soon to plan a pro­gramme for the re­gion­al T20 se­ries, which is the next tour­na­ment and we are go­ing to use our re­sources to make their prepa­ra­tion is the best." Bas­sarath not­ed the play­ers were hurt­ing and his board was go­ing to stand by them dur­ing this low pe­ri­od. "We are al­so mak­ing a call to the pub­lic to have pa­tience, as the team looks to work its way out the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion. "We have told the play­ers that af­ter dom­i­nat­ing the re­gion­al scene, oth­er coun­tries would have been view­ing them and do­ing their home­work on how to bet­ter T&T. We have urged them to work hard and try to get ahead of the rest and stay there."