BAS­SETERRE – It took eight years for the T&T Red Force Di­vas to clinch a Su­per 50 Cup ti­tle, but that wait is over fol­low­ing the team’s dom­i­nant sev­en-wick­et win over Bar­ba­dos women in the fi­nal in St Kitts on Fri­day.

Head coach Meris­sa Aguilleira was elat­ed af­ter the match, at­tribut­ing the suc­cess to a col­lec­tive ef­fort and di­vine guid­ance.

“First of all, let me thank God. I thank Him for giv­ing us this op­por­tu­ni­ty to be here to­day. I want to say thanks to the play­ers and man­age­ment staff for the sup­port they have giv­en me. I hon­est­ly be­lieve the girls have worked hard. I’m hap­py to see the per­for­mances, the way they built up through­out the tour­na­ment and the way they ex­e­cut­ed to­day. I’m re­al­ly hap­py and ex­cit­ed about what hap­pened.”

One of the stand­out fea­tures of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s cam­paign was the dom­i­nance of their spin­ners, who con­sis­tent­ly out­classed their op­po­nents.

Aguilleira em­pha­sized the im­por­tance of stick­ing to what worked.

“The spin­ners have been dom­i­nat­ing. I think we were the best in the com­pe­ti­tion, and they con­tin­ued to do so through­out the games. We had dis­cus­sions about our strat­e­gy and went ahead with it, and it be­came suc­cess­ful again.”

The spot­light al­so shone bright­ly on cap­tain Kar­ish­ma Ramhar­rack, whose lead­er­ship and per­for­mance were piv­otal to the team’s suc­cess. Aguilleira praised Ramhar­rack’s growth and po­ten­tial as a fu­ture West In­dies cap­tain.

“Kar­ish­ma has been ex­cep­tion­al. From the first time we in­ter­act­ed, I saw that she had a lot of po­ten­tial. She has been do­ing pret­ty well and has al­ways been on the ball. She’s a re­al­ly good prospect for West In­dies crick­et.”

CMC