The na­tion­al crick­eters turned up for tri­als yes­ter­day, on­ly to be greet­ed by a wet Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre (NCC), as their sec­ond tri­al match in four days was com­plete­ly washed out. Coach of the na­tion­al team Kelvin Williams said the bad weath­er would have killed off the chances of the fringe play­ers, as there are no more tri­al match­es sched­uled. "The rain I think would have killed off the chances of the play­ers on the pe­riph­ery. With no more tri­al match­es card­ed and the team to play in the re­gion­al 50 overs cham­pi­onships is ex­pect­ed to be cho­sen tonight (last night) and the rain robbed the play­ers of the chance to de­mand a spot.

"We have all our in­ter­na­tion­al play­ers avail­able and this would have made it dif­fi­cult for the fringe play­ers to get in. They would have need­ed the op­por­tu­ni­ty to ad­dress the se­lec­tors with great per­for­mances but the op­por­tu­ni­ties were lim­it­ed by the rain." Mean­while, the for­mer T&T all rounder said he was pleased with the per­for­mance of most of the play­ers who took part in the two tri­al match­es and he is hop­ing that they con­tin­ue in that vein. "We had some good per­for­mances in the tri­als and I am hop­ing that the men who did well can con­tin­ue.

"Lendl Sim­mons has vast tal­ent but some­times he does not know how to use it well. He bat­ted bril­liant­ly in the tri­als and we are hop­ing he con­tin­ues. Many times be­fore he got runs in the tri­als but failed to live up to ex­pec­ta­tions in the tour­na­ment. We are hop­ing for a dif­fer­ent re­sult from him this time around." The T&T team will play four prac­tice match­es lo­cal­ly be­fore fly­ing out to Ja­maica on Oc­to­ber 12. They open their warm-up cam­paign on Sat­ur­day against a TTCB Acad­e­my team at the NCC.