Trinidad and Tobago national cricket team

Trinidad and Tobago
Captain:	Denesh Ramdin
Coach:	Kelvin Williams
Colors:	Red white black
Founded:	1869
Home ground:	Queen's Park Oval
Capacity:	40,000
Four Day wins:	4 (plus 1 shared)
WICB Cup wins:	10 (plus 1 shared)
Twenty20 wins:	3

The Trinidad and Tobago cricket team is the representative cricket team of the country of Trinidad and Tobago.

The team takes part in inter-regional cricket competitions in the Caribbean, such as the West Indies' Professional Cricket League (which includes the Regional Four Day Competition and the NAGICO Regional Super50) under the franchise name Trinidad and Tobago Red Force,^[1] with the best players selected for the West Indies team, which plays international cricket. Though a team represented T&T in the 1998 Commonwealth Games. Trinidad and Tobago have won the Regional Four Day Competition five times and the WICB Cup ten times. They are the current Caribbean Twenty20 champions.

Team history

Port of Spain's Brian Lara holds the record for the highest Test score and formerly held the record for the most Test runs.

Teams from Trinidad played first-class cricket from 1869, when Trinidad took on Demerara for two matches, winning one and losing one. They also participated in the Inter-Colonial Tournament between Barbados, British Guiana (formerly Demerara), and themselves, playing in all 28 tournaments that were held between 1891–92 and 1938–39. From the late 1880s, Tobago was incorporated into the crown colony of Trinidad as a ward.

After independence in 1962, the team changed its name to reflect the official name of the country, Trinidad and Tobago, and when the Shell Shield began in 1965–66 the team competed under the name of Trinidad and Tobago. They won their first title on their fourth outing, in 1969–70, and also won the next year's competition, but since then Trinidad and Tobago have only taken three titles in 35 seasons. During this time cricketers from Trinidad competed in the Beaumont Cup which had first class status.

In one-day cricket, Trinidad and Tobago won four titles in eight seasons from 1989–90 to 1996–97, and also won the 2004–05 one-day title.

T&T cricket team participated and were runners-up at the inaugural Champions' league T-20.The team stayed unbeaten until the finals.

Squad

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Notable players

Learie Constantine, Trinidad all-rounder

The list of prominent cricketers who have represented Trinidad and Tobago includes:

• Ian Bishop
• Learie Constantine
• Mervyn Dillon
• Larry Gomes
• Brian Lara
• Gus Logie
• Deryck Murray
• Sonny Ramadhin
• Jeffrey Stollmeyer
• Nyron Asgarali
• Darian Mills
• Tariq Lamorell

Honours

• Regional Four Day Competition (5): 1969–70, 1970–71, 1975–76 (shared), 1984–85, 2005–06

• Domestic one-day competition (10): 1978–79, 1980–81, 1989–90, 1991–92, 1995–1996 (shared), 1996–1997, 2004–2005, 2006–2007, 2008–2009, 2009–2010

• Caribbean Twenty20 (3): 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13

• Inter-Colonial Tournament (defunct) (12): 1901–02, 1903–04, 1907–08, 1909–10, 1921–22 (shared), 1924–25, 1925–26, 1928–29, 1931–32, 1933–34, 1936–37, 1938–39

• Stanford 20/20 (defunct) (1): 2008
• Trans-Atlantic Twenty20 Champions Cup (Stanford Super Series) (defunct) (1): 2008

Grounds

• Queen's Park Oval in Port of Spain with 143 first-class games

• Guaracara Park in Pointe-à-Pierre with 41 games.

• National Cricket Centre at Couva with one game.

• Shaw Park at Scarborough, Tobago with one game.

See also

• Trinidad and Tobago women's cricket team
• List of international cricketers from Trinidad and Tobago

References

External links

• 2005–06 KFC Cup Squad from Cricinfo

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