Mark Deyal of the Premier One club, Clarke Road United, made the cut for the West Indies A Team and its historic tour to Nepal.
The all-rounder made his senior T&T debut in 2015 as a member of Clarke Road United, and after moving around the cricket circuit for a while, he realigned with the Clarke Road outfit, that now sees him as the only Trinbagonian on the West Indies A Team to Nepal.
Deyal has been having a very successful club season, with huge half centuries, an unbeaten century against Central Sports and 20 wickets to his name. He amassed 405 rums in six league matches. He has also enjoyed stints in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) and other franchises on the worldwide cricketing landscape. Though his unsponsored community team is facing numerous challenges, it has been able to continue its well-documented successes for over four decades.
In 2024, the club can boast of international star, Nicholas Pooran as its marquee player with a number of other talented cricketers in its line-up. Captain Yannick Ottley, Red Force opening batsman Vikash Mohan, WI Academy player Joshua James, Combined, Colleges and Campuses (CCC) representative Shatrughan Rambaran and Barbadian opening batsman Shian Brathwaite have all represented the club over the past year and have played in the just concluded Regional Four-Day tournament.
The club, which prides itself on talent identification and development, also has a number of exceptional young cricketers within its ranks including Anderson Mahase, Shiva Sankar, Olando James, Christiano Ramnanan and Jonathon Williams.
Historically, the success list at this rural community club is long, including names such as Mukesh Persad, Gregory Mahabir, Sherwin Ganga, Adrian Barath, Anderson Phillip, Jyd Goolie, Kyle Hope, Kyle Mayers, Odean Smith and Obed McCoy, to name a few. In a release, the club wished Deyal all success on the tour to Nepal.