For­mer West In­dies and T&T crick­eters the leg­endary Dwayne Bra­vo and Kieron Pol­lard were for­mal­ly named Am­bas­sadors for Sport for the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go by the Min­istry of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs yes­ter­day.

Both men, cel­e­brat­ed glob­al­ly for their ex­cep­tion­al crick­et­ing ca­reers and lead­er­ship, will now take on new roles rep­re­sent­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s sport­ing ex­cel­lence and na­tion­al pride on the in­ter­na­tion­al stage.

Bra­vo, 41, made his T&T de­but in 2002 against Bar­ba­dos and made his One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al de­but for the West In­dies dur­ing Eng­land’s 2003/2004 tour of the Caribbean. He re­tired from play­ing all forms of the game dur­ing the 2024 Caribbean Pre­mier League and was ap­point­ed head coach of the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) for the on­go­ing 2025 Caribbean Pre­mier League.

He’s one of the coun­try’s most dec­o­rat­ed sports­men and has earned world­wide recog­ni­tion as a pre­mier all-rounder and for­mer West In­dies cap­tain. In ad­di­tion to his suc­cess on the crick­et field, Bra­vo has made sig­nif­i­cant cul­tur­al con­tri­bu­tions through mu­sic and his ef­forts to pro­mote Trinidad and To­ba­go glob­al­ly. His ser­vice to sport and cul­ture was recog­nised in 2015 when he re­ceived the Hum­ming­bird Medal (Gold).

Pol­lard, 38, for­mer cap­tain of the West In­dies lim­it­ed-overs teams, is equal­ly revered for his lead­er­ship, pro­fes­sion­al­ism, and achieve­ments in in­ter­na­tion­al and fran­chise crick­et. A dom­i­nant fig­ure in ma­jor T20 leagues around the world, Pol­lard has long been a proud stan­dard-bear­er for Trinidad and To­ba­go on the glob­al sport­ing stage.

In a state­ment, the Min­istry said that the ap­point­ments un­der­score the Gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to cel­e­brat­ing out­stand­ing na­tion­al per­form­ers whose achieve­ments con­tin­ue to in­spire cit­i­zens and el­e­vate Trinidad and To­ba­go’s in­ter­na­tion­al rep­u­ta­tion.

The min­istry ex­pressed its en­thu­si­asm about work­ing with both am­bas­sadors as they cham­pi­on the val­ues of ex­cel­lence, team­work, and na­tion­al pride and fur­ther pro­mote Trinidad and To­ba­go’s brand across the world.